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My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise

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Post by wh4t3v3r »

caslon wrote: post #187
wh4t3v3r wrote: post #186

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"VR is great. You don't have to spike your risk of skin cancer, you don't have to deal with allergies, you don't have to run along a road that constantly has drunken teenagers crashing into mailboxes...()" And what about your eyes? How healthy is wearing VR? :)

Actually, there's no evidence that LCDs are bad for eyes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-tv-eye... Sure, if you have a CRT strapped to your face, there might be a little risk. But an LCD screen is just about the most harmless thing imaginable for your eyes.

"Actually, there's no evidence that LCDs are bad for eyes:" If that was true, there would be no such thing as dry eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

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Post by caslon »

wh4t3v3r wrote: post #241
caslon wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, there's no evidence that LCDs are bad for eyes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-talk-tv-eye... Sure, if you have a CRT strapped to your face, there might be a little risk. But an LCD screen is just about the most harmless thing imaginable for your eyes.

"Actually, there's no evidence that LCDs are bad for eyes:" If that was true, there would be no such thing as dry eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome

Dry eyes happen without LCDs, and CVS isn't actually bad for your health or the health of your eyes. Not to mention that most people don't get it, even if they're staring at a screen for most hours of the day. As someone who stares at a VR LCD screen for almost all of my workday with eyes that've gotten less dry as I've started using screens more, I'm pretty much convinced CVS is a myth.

(And, of course, there's the fact that no one has ever been able to reproduce a study on CVS... also not giving it a very strong case.)

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

beeskneecaps wrote: post #235
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #231

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The stock foam gasket that comes with the quest is definitely porous and easy enough to wash under water. What headset are you talking about? I can’t imagine how horrible it must have been, was it attached to a PC with a wire?

quest v1 no wire but like 4 hour battery life so the wire gets involved. You also get a semi permanent line down the middle of your head that lasts proportionally to how long you've worn the headset. Also the sinus pressure of having a 5 pound device drooping from your forehead and the red ring around your face and bloodshot eyes (because you didn't blink at all) means you can't go into public for another hour after…

Ok, so I owned two oculus 1s (had to buy a replacement after the first one died after a year of heavy use) and suffered from none of those problems. It is even better with the quest 2. I don’t understand how you could get a mark on your face even after an hour of use, but I’ve never tried using it for more than 2 hours at a time.

You could have special circumstances: sensitive skin, especially acidic sweat, or just different head pressure tolerances. Also, I could never use the VR system if I didn’t have around 3 sweat bands on. I had to move away from simple cloths ones when I upgraded to the quest 2 because they wouldn’t fit anymore, and the smaller elastic ones don’t hold sweat well, so I had to triple up on them. Otherwise my sessions would end after around 10 minutes as I simply couldn’t keep the sweat out of my eyes anymore.

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Post by alexknowshtml »

belinder wrote: post #217
alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

Do you use the regular strap? I've been trying to get into workout stuff but the regular strap never really keeps the device in place when I go for more than 10-15 minutes

I upgraded to the elite strap with the extra battery pretty early on. Never feels loose, and I can easily work out for 60-90 mins without worrying about battery issues.

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Post by alexknowshtml »

vlunkr wrote: post #210
alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

Who would have thought video games would get people to excercise! That's really cool, I wasn't sure VR would stick around this time, but it seems like it's found some good niches

I feel the same way! Also notable: I don’t really play video games at all other than this one. I get bored too quickly with most games!

This model of short workouts built around playlists really unlocked a lot of things for me, I think.

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Post by alexknowshtml »

herodoturtle wrote: post #213
alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

> Over the last 12 months I've lost almost 60lbs That’s so awesome to read, keep it up!

Thank you for the encouragement!

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Post by alexknowshtml »

siculars wrote: post #214
alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

All power to you! Congratulations. For me, the takeaway is that XR (AR+VR) opens up a new market and attracts new people (customers). Everything in our world is a continuum. Candles to lightbulbs, horses to ICE to EV mobility. Telegraphs to phone to cell. The adoption curve is the continuum. Your comment is such a clear signal that this technology, XR, has a place on this continuum. It will evolve and attract new peo…

Totally agree. This experience gave me a very strong sense of applications that I would have been much more skeptical of before. Really powerful (and for me, unexpected) gateway.

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Post by alexknowshtml »

xarez wrote: post #203
alexknowshtml wrote: post #191

I'm 38. Never had a workout or fitness routine in my entire life except for a few brief and unsustained periods of working with a trainer, but quit. Last May I bought a Quest 2 specifically to try Supernatural, a mix of Beatsabre with a Pelaton-style experience with pre-recorded song-driven sessions. I did one 5 song session (20 mins or so) and for the first time in my life I was dripping with sweat and thought to my…

This is amazing to read. When people are looking for advice on what to do to be more healthy they're usually pointed towards routines or habits of exercise. In truth I feel like the best way is finding something you have fun with, routine comes in pretty easily after.

Thank you!

I’d add kudos to the Apple Watch, which I bought a few months before the quest. I never thought of myself as a “don’t break the chain” habit person but the watch proved me wrong!

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Post by david_allison »

darthShadow wrote: post #238
obscuren wrote: post #233

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You do not need a computer for the setup. You’ll need your mobile phone instead. You may, if you wish, hook up the Q2 to a a PC to play steamVR and Oculus Games. The oculus quest 2 has a separate store (in VR) in which you purchase new games.

Perfect, thanks. Any first game recommendations btw?

* Beat Saber

* Until You Fall

* In Death: Unchained (not good for fitness)

* Thrill Of The Fight

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Post by jerry_tk »

Freaken wrote: post #4

I do pretty much the same thing. I own a Quest 2 and I play Pistol whip, Thrill of the fight and Moon rider (a free VR game which is played in the browser where you need to hit blocks with your hands synced to music). The only issue I have with Thrill of the fight is that when I get into it, I hit hard, but find no resistance as I would hitting a punching bad or sparring with someone, so my elbow tends to overextend…

Looks like it is also possible to buy "punch limiting" harness. Here is an example search on Ali: https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-expander-boxing.html
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