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Oculus VR fitness data will soon be accessible in Apple Health

Mashable VR

Meta and Apple are playing nice with each other, and that means you can access your Oculus Quest VR workout stats directly on an iOS device. Meta announced two new updates to Oculus Move , its built-in fitness tracking app on the Quest VR headset, that are set to roll out next month.

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Cas & Chary Present: Why Working Out in VR is Game-changing

Road to VR

It certainly doesn’t help that I find exercising in a gym boring and time-consuming. The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise does research on the impact of virtual reality exercise on the human body. Tip: If you have an Apple Watch, Apple has added a ‘Fitness Gaming’ workout type recently.

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YUR Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Beta on Oculus Quest to Make Gamers Fit with VR

Cats and VR

They foresee that gaming, a notoriously sedentary behavior, can be harnessed with VR technology to get people to exercise. Effective today, both the YUR Oculus Quest app on Sidequest ( [link] ) and the YUR mobile companion app are released into beta. Navigating players into a healthy lifestyle, while having fun.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” ” For Google, investments in AR are to drive search (visual search, mapping). For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware. Google will be the knowledge layer , just like its web index serves that purpose on the 2D web.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part VII: Facebook

AR Insider

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple.

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2020 Spatial Predictions: ‘Training Wheels’ Win AR

AR Insider

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020. Apple is already conditioning this use case (AirPods & Watch), as is Snap (Spectacles). But there are also confidence signals.

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