[sw104]

"he believes Black Box solves the fitness problem that’s always been thorniest: getting people to stick to their workouts."

This might be a wildly unpopular opinion, but I personally feel if somebody requires VR/video game to be bolted onto exercise in order to stick with it, they're probably not going to stick with it.

I also can't see how the people that use VR/video games as their primary/sole exercise source don't transfer the supposed monotony of exercise which they are trying to avoid, over to the video game, eventually.

I run and go to the gym almost every day and have gotten it into a habit which reinforces itself (wanting to cover more distance, faster pace, heavier weights). I don't think I could replace running, swimming, the gym with a VR game like table tennis or Beat Saber and get anywhere near the same intensive workout, and I doubt I could play these games daily for more than a month without just getting fed up of the game, as you would with any standard video game.

[giraffe_lady]

I get it, I really have never stuck with any exercise-for-its-own-sake activity even in pursuit of a tangible goal. I'm fit but it's all with activities that I enjoy enough to do despite the exercise: cycling, tennis, martial arts, etc. I don't think I'm too unusual in this either.

So if there's a way to turn pure fitness activities into sport/game type activities then that could work for some people, maybe a lot of people. I don't think this will be successful at that, but that idea itself seems reasonable to me.