How Much Room Do I Need for VR Fitness Gaming?

Getting fit in VR doesn’t have to be a bore. When you play with enough space around you, you can let yourself loose and ‘lean’ more into the pace of the action rather than stand in one spot with the rigidity of a mannequin. The only question is, how ... more - vrfitnessinsider

This Week’s VR Game Roundup — Throw, Attack, and Dance!

Piñata Attack Want to go to a birthday party with a giant piñata but don’t have any friends? We’re sorry, but you can do so virtually with Piñata Attack! The game puts one player in control of the VR headset as they attack to break a piñata. The other ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VR Learning Game Designed to Help Children Read

A team of developers at Reality Hack: MIT XR Hackathon recently designed a way to use the immersive environment of virtual reality to help children with dyslexia and dysgraphia. One of only 350 people chosen to attend this year’s MIT hackathon, Mike ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Play Your Way With PowerBeatsVR’s Auto-Generated Workouts

If you’ve been having fun (and getting in shape) playing PowerBeatsVR but are tired of its song selection, developer Five Mind Creations has a solution. The game’s latest update allows you to auto-generate workouts using your own music library. Yes, ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VR Exposure Therapy Provides Treatment Option for PTSD

The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is an academic research center that combines creative narrative with advanced immersive techniques such as virtual reality to provide veterans with urgently needed options ... more - vrfitnessinsider

This Week’s VR Game Roundup — Groove, Slice, and React!

Audica (Oculus Quest) After previously launching on other platforms, Audica has finally made its way to Oculus Quest. Part shooter and part rhythm game, it’s from the masters of the music game genre at Harmonix. You’ll blast objects in time to the beat, ... more - vrfitnessinsider

How to Get Fit and Stay Social in Rec Room’s Best Stunt Courses

Rec Room is still one of the most popular social games in virtual reality. Players love it for all the different things they can do, including create and share their own rooms. We’ve already written about how to get fit while playing in Rec Room’s Rec ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Quick Fitness Tips for ‘Space Ops VR’

A few months ago, publisher Fibrum released a sci-fi shooter called Space Ops VR . Compared against the more established VR shoot’em ups like Onward , Pavlov , or even Firewall Zero Hour , it, well… wasn’t great. I suppose the politically correct way ... more - vrfitnessinsider

14-Year-Old Reaps Benefits of VR Esports

Fourteen-year-old Jason, owner of the Echo Arena team “Milk,” has no idea what he’d like to do when he grows up. Right now he’s more concerned with making it through his freshman year of high school and preparing Milk for the first season of Echo Arena ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VZfit Takes Your Bike Ride to a New Level in Virtual Reality

Some time ago I wrote an article on how to create an entire home gym based around the Oculus Quest. The premise was simple; to use a VR headset, and add some basic, and affordable ancillary equipment to create a complete, fully functional home gym setup ... more - vrfitnessinsider

This Week’s VR Game Roundup — Walking With the Dead and Learn Kung Fu

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners The latest game in the always-growing The Walking Dead universe is also one of the most impressive. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners was built from the ground-up for VR. Set in New Orleans, you must investigate ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VR Program Hopes to Help Prevent Concussions in Youth Sports

Concussions are an issue in nearly every contact sport. This is true not only at the professional level, but also for kids just starting out. To help reduce concussions and inform younger players, TeachAids and Stanford University collaborated to create ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Best Free VR Fitness Games of 2020

While it might be true that the best things in life are free, that isn’t typically the case for virtual reality titles. A lot of free games are more like tech demos than fleshed-out experiences and don’t have a lot to offer. However, players will still ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Orion13 Combines Hack-and-Slash Gameplay With Full-Body VR Challenges

In need of the next big sword combat game for your VR device of choice? Metro VR Studios hopes so, as Orion13 is just weeks away and promises to deliver an exhilarating futuristic hack-and-slash experience. A new trailer has been released as we approach ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Asgard’s Wrath Weapons Guide: Best Weapons for the Arena

Slide into your local dungeon and salt the earth with the blood of Tyr’s followers, because it’s time to delve back into Asgard’s Wrath. Like an arrow in the dark, Asgard’s Wrath was the top-notch 30+ hour action RPG for the Oculus Rift platform that ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Soccer Players Can Use In-Store Rezzil VR Tech to Develop Their Skills

If you’re looking to improve your soccer skills, the American retailer Soccer Post may be able to help. It has just entered a partnership with the VR training platform Rezzil, providing players with in-store training technology. You can now improve your ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Teams Prepare for Echo Arena VR Master League Season 1

Hype is building for Echo Arena VR Master League Season 1, which is set to begin on Monday, February 3. Teams have been preparing for the highest level of competition and many participated in the Echo Arena VRML pre-season, which took place in late 2019. ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Ashley Riott Used Virtual Reality to Rebuild Her Health and Build a New Life!

Ashley Riott is a colorful character with a VR origin story as striking as her long pink hair. A freak injury while out running led to her being rendered almost completely immobile, and needing risky spinal surgery. Around this time she discovered virtual ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Enhance VR Brings Brain-Training Tools to China on Vive Focus Plus, Quest, and Rift

Chinese virtual reality players looking to train their brains in new ways now have a great tool to do so. Enhance VR, a cognitive training tool aimed at improving memory, audio awareness, and more, is now available in the country. Whether you are making ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VR Master League’s Onward and Pavlov Kick Off 2020 VR Esports Competitions

The VR Master League (VRML) will kick off the first VR esports competitions of the decade on Monday, January 20 with Downpour Interactive’s Onward and davevillz’ Pavlov . A community-driven platform the was formed in 2017 by DaKinMan, the VR Master League ... more - vrfitnessinsider

This Week’s VR Game Roundup — Putt, Vibe, and Jam!

Cloudlands 2 (Steam) Available now on Steam after releasing on Oculus Quest over the summer, Cloudlands 2 is not your standard miniature golf game. For one thing, you have a wedge and a driver in addition to your putter! There are 54 holes to play through, ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Best VR Fitness Games For Kids of 2020

Kids love video games, but it is often an inactive hobby that involves a lot of lounging around. Since it’s never too early to get your kids involved in living a healthy lifestyle, we recommend introducing children to the best VR fitness games for kids ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Ironlights Puts You in an All-Out Duel Inside a Roaring Arena

Want a VR weapon-based duel game that lets you feel the roar of an enormous crowd instead of just your enemy’s grunts? That is what developer E McNeill is hoping to deliver in Ironlights, an advanced and fluid melee combat game designed to feel as natural ... more - vrfitnessinsider

This Week’s VR Game Roundup — Fight Soldiers and Throw Touchdowns!

Strings Strings may just have the most interesting movement systems we’ve seen in a VR shooter to date. The fast-paced game has you destroying enemies with stylized weapons, but you won’t just be walking from point to point. Instead, to move you throw ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Best Oculus Go Fitness Games of 2020

While plenty of people have picked up the affordable entry-level headset, the Oculus Go isn’t much of a fitness machine. There’s a good reason for that as the headset only offers three degrees of freedom rather than the six that are needed for the most ... more - vrfitnessinsider

The Chilldex Wants to Eliminate the VR Sweats for Good

Anyone who has worked out in or even just used virtual reality for an extended period of time knows about the “VR sweats.” As your body has trouble determining if it is actually in motion based on what your eyes see, it can have a bit of a short-circuit. ... more - vrfitnessinsider

VR and Mind-Body Health Converge at Transformative Tech in Palo Alto

“What does wellbeing have to do with virtual reality? Isn’t it escapism?” I’ve been asked questions like this before, working with mindfulness and VR. Sometimes, my answers involve some sort of invitation, like “You have to just experience it yourself ... more - vrfitnessinsider

Oculus Quest Youtuber Matt Quinlan from BMF prepares his 30 day VR Fitness challenge

If you own an Oculus Quest and regularly search Youtube looking for virtual reality content chances are high that you are already familiar with the popular Quest channel BMF. The channel’s owner and host Matt Quinlan has already amassed nearly 40,000 ... more - vrfitnessinsider

ICAROS Combines Fitness and VR; Offers Esports Option

The combination of fitness and virtual reality made the ICAROS seem like a good product to check out at CES 2020 so I headed over to the Sands in Las Vegas. ICAROS GmbH was established in Munich, Germany in 2015 to combine virtual reality with an ergonomic ... more - vrfitnessinsider

TowerMax Fitness Training Game – Reaction

There are more things in VR and AR, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy – Hamlet (probably) The world of VR is vast and sometimes a little terrifying; this is true both with general VR interactions as well as those focused more on the fitness ... more - vrfitnessinsider