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by evo_9 2135 days ago
You're welcome Martin, happy to help out.

I'm curious if you have thought of having something like a burpee as one of a few different 'dodges' to move things toward a full body workout and activate the legs more?

I'll also second the idea of selling the harness separately. I think something like that + VR could be a big hit. I also wonder if you have considered creating a lower body harness to add resistance to the leg?

One thing I'll say that is appealing about your approach is that it's not VR. I find it somewhat unpractical to do a real workout in VR because current headsets are both bulky and very warm/hot to wear. The lens tend to fog up along with just sweating like mad, it's just not ideal. This is mostly a problem that'll solve itself as future HMD design presumably shrink and become less intrusive/bulky. Generally I think no headset like this is a big plus for you guys.

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Absolutely! We're planning to implement movements like burpees to give users the possibility for High Intensity full body workouts! We've chosen not to do Vr based on user feedback: people seem to not like it. They find it cumbersome, heavy, sweaty and annoying, and we want to provide a seamless fitness gaming experience! We will still explore porting to VR in the future, of course! :)

Regarding lower body workouts, we'll start by adding sensors to the legs if we reach that specific stretch goal. We'd love to add resistance too, if it's feasible! :)

Thank you for your input!