Kent Bye from Voices of VR podcast recently interviewed Soundboxing’s Eric Florenzano, about his VR rhythm game and discussed how playing games in VR has helped players lose weight and get in shape with the addictive game. VR Exercise Punch to the music! Credit: Soundboxing Playing fitness VR games is a great way to train the body and brain to push past their comfort zones in order to achieve those fitness goals. It means that you still have to put the effort in to get results, but that effort won’t make you feel like you were wading through the sands of time. To be clear, flow and time dilation doesn’t mean exercise and movement in virtual reality will be effortless. This fact alone should be motivating for people who are returning back to exercise after a long hiatus or for anyone looking to achieve their fitness goals by minimizing the soreness that comes with shadow boxing with a virtual Bruce Lee or that feeling of holding a plank while flying and shooting spaceships. In that same article, Lewis also talks about how VR reduces and delays the onset of pain while exercising or training by up to 60 percent.įocusing on what’s happening in the virtual moment pushes exercisers towards weight loss or improved stamina by diverting their attention away from the intensity of exercise. This is especially important when paired with fitness.” Plank and work your obliques and abs while you fly in VR! Credit: Icarosĭesigning exciting and invigorating action, FPS, or fitness games that people will want to play is a given, but making the game as realistic or appealing to the senses as possible will keep players coming back for more. With the right VR design patterns your brain believes you have been transported to another world and the environment game you are experiencing has the potential to put you in a flow state and dilate your sense of time. The article “Visions of VR’s Future: 7 Reasons VR Will Change Sports Forever” written by Preston Lewis, explains that “Virtual reality is THE technology of presence because your vision is completely taken over. If the senses are busy and focused on the task at hand, then the mind isn’t thinking about the time, motivating the body to push itself to rack up points or to see the look on that zombies face when you punch it. ĭevs design gaming environments that are wondrously futuristic or shockingly realistic (depending on the game) and set up objectives and goals to tackle which leads to gamer buy-in and time dilation. Virtual reality game developers and studios aim to create games that hack the mental and physical flow states through the immersion of VR and the gamification of exercise. How We Enter Flow Credit to: Įxperiencing a change in time perception, flow, or time dilation happens frequently for VR headset owners and can be attributed to the development of the games. VR flow is easily achieved when a player’s sense of sight, sound, and touch are taken on an interactive journey. Fit gamers experience flow, or time dilation, when they’ve achieved a continuous stream of combo punches in a VR boxing game, or when they put the headset on and become fully immersed in the virtual world around them. What is Flow?Ĭreative types know the flow state to be that magical moment where they become fully immersed and “one” with the article, art piece, or new design they’re working on. We’re here to help you understand the flow state and then hack it, so you can get the most out of it with virtual reality. Any name that you call it, the flow state is a real psychological phenomenon that occurs when gamers and exercise fanatics play games or exercise in VR. Getting in the zone, being focused, embodiment, immersion, or flow.
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