The first time I worked out in VR, it happened by accident. I emerged from my first session of Beat Saber, wide-blinking and dripping with sweat, having just unboxed an Oculus Quest 2 an hour earlier, my only previous VR experience a few years earlier with the now-forgotten Google Daydream.
As editor of this website, I read a lot about VR — we cover the best Oculus Quest 2 games and accessories extensively — but I didn`t expect to fall as hard, and as quickly, for it as I did. Perhaps it`s the sheer novelty of tricking your brain into thinking you`re not in the same house, the same room, you`ve been living and working in for the past 18 months. Perhaps it`s the propulsive nature of the input itself — games don`t merely respond to the trigger movements in my thumbs and fingers but my whole hand, my arms, my head. It`s the fulsomeness of the experience that enamored me.
So, after that first play Beat Saber play session, and the knowledge that I`ve been working out less than I`d...
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