Exercising in virtual reality with the VirZoom motion controller
Video games and exercise don’t play well together. Sure, there’s the eight-year-old Wii Fit, drumming with the new Rock Band, and a slew of dedicated exercise games using Microsoft’s Kinect and featuring fitness trainers you’ve never heard of. But video games are more often a sedentary activity, asking only that you stretch occasionally and go to the bathroom in between long stretches of sitting.
Then there’s the VirZoom, a strange accessory for virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. If VirZoom looks like an exercise bike, that’s because it is. The Boston-based company gets its bikes from a Chinese manufacturer and transforms them with sensors and software into a virtual reality motion controller that plugs into a PlayStation 4 or PC.
