Forgive my ignorance, but I always see the quest mentioned. Are there any comparable devices that don’t require Facebook?
I’ve sworn off FB and while VR for cardio has me intrigued, nothing is gonna get me to sign back in there.
My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
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Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#52I don’t own a VR headset, but working out is one of the main reasons I could buy one. I have some questions though:
1. Isn’t the headset moving when doing fast moves?
2. Does the headset get dirty from sweating?
3. Does any sweat build up inside the device?
4. Did anyone break their device by moving too fast?
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#53the most outlandish thing about this post is waking up at 5:30am to work
What's outlandish about it? Some people wake up on the early side for all sorts of reasons -- disposition, physiology, mix of responsibilities requires it, household functioning, kids, etc., etc. There are many different kinds of people in this world. It pays to think of all the reasons there might be for even one single behavior.
because waking up and putting your first effort to your job seems misplaced if you have such strong personal goals such as daily working out. what’s more important, your job or yourself?
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#54What is so bad about just going out and doing sports with people and having real contact?
I guess that everyone is different. In my case I really enjoy participating in HIT workouts with people; the group competition drives me to push myself.
That's one of the reasons for having better results in a marathon than during training: group competitiveness
The second benefit is also obvious to me: socializing. Just the fact of doing sports together gives you a sense of bonding, of going through similar pain and succeeding.
One can argue you can achieve the same with VR meanwhile for me is just a poor replacement.
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#55Forgive my ignorance, but I always see the quest mentioned. Are there any comparable devices that don’t require Facebook? I’ve sworn off FB and while VR for cardio has me intrigued, nothing is gonna get me to sign back in there.
IMO not really atm. Inside out tracking and cheap. It’s hard to compete with the Quest 2 on convenience.
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#56Forgive my ignorance, but I always see the quest mentioned. Are there any comparable devices that don’t require Facebook? I’ve sworn off FB and while VR for cardio has me intrigued, nothing is gonna get me to sign back in there.
IMO not really atm. Inside out tracking and cheap. It’s hard to compete with the Quest 2 on convenience.
Well there are pros and cons selling at a loss
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#57Forgive my ignorance, but I always see the quest mentioned. Are there any comparable devices that don’t require Facebook? I’ve sworn off FB and while VR for cardio has me intrigued, nothing is gonna get me to sign back in there.
It isn't really comparable, but the only other real VR competitor out there is the Valve Index, which is considerably more expensive, requires base stations and requires a cord to a (beefy) computer, but on the flip side can support many more games, with much better controllers and is much more powerful.
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#58What is so bad about just going out and doing sports with people and having real contact? I guess that everyone is different. In my case I really enjoy participating in HIT workouts with people; the group competition drives me to push myself. That's one of the reasons for having better results in a marathon than during training: group competitiveness The second benefit is also obvious to me: socializing. Just the fac…
Did you forget about the ongoing pandemic?
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#59I don’t own a VR headset, but working out is one of the main reasons I could buy one. I have some questions though: 1. Isn’t the headset moving when doing fast moves? 2. Does the headset get dirty from sweating? 3. Does any sweat build up inside the device? 4. Did anyone break their device by moving too fast?
1. Some, but if it's well fitted, it's not a big deal.
2. Yup.
3. Yup again, especially around the... face gasket?
4. Haven't broken it yet, but I definitely have windmilled my controllers into various things. Part of that is that I don't really have enough floor space for VR.
Re: My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's outlandish about it? Some people wake up on the early side for all sorts of reasons -- disposition, physiology, mix of responsibilities requires it, household functioning, kids, etc., etc. There are many different kinds of people in this world. It pays to think of all the reasons there might be for even one single behavior.
because waking up and putting your first effort to your job seems misplaced if you have such strong personal goals such as daily working out. what’s more important, your job or yourself?
Some folks need to wake up a little bit to work out.
What you do first isn't necessarily your highest priority.