How to Ensure Your VR Workout Covers Each Muscle Group
It can be hard to balance your VR workout routine when you first start out. Here’s what you need to know about each critical muscle group!
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Oakland A’s Star Matt Olson Uses Win Reality VR to Help Prepare for Games
We’ve heard a lot over the past year or two about how VR is starting to be implemented in real-world sports to help athletes improve their on-the-field skills. While much of these implementations have seemingly been happening more at the youth level, it looks like professional athletes are starting to see the value of virtual…
Exercise Your Mind- The Benefits of VR Fitness on the Brain
Virtual Reality itself has many benefits for the mind and the body. Now let’s take a peek into how exercise, in general, helps our minds. It is proven that getting up and moving has a profound impact on how we process information. After all, we only recently have evolved the world to allow a more…
Win Reality is Looking to Improve Your Real-World Baseball Skills Through VR
It was only the other day that we were talking about how one practice facility in Canada is using the tech behind virtual reality to improve the skills of youth hockey players, and now, some of those same tools are being utilized to help users get better at America’s pastime. Win Reality is a company…
Happy Body Happy Brain – Mental Health Benefits of Virtual Reality
It is not news to most folks, working out has a great and lasting impact on mental health. Getting up and moving the body surges with dopamine, adrenaline, endorphins, and endocannabinoid. These chemicals are what trigger feelings of happiness, joy, relaxation, and act as our natural anti-depressants. Virtual Reality also has a positive impact on…
What is VR Fitness? Most of VR’s Best Games Are VR Fitness Games
VR’s best quality is that it immerses you directly into a virtual environment, allowing your own body to become the controller that makes gameplay happen. This is the basic motivational thrust of VR fitness, which is all about turning fun VR games into an effective fitness regimen. That said, should it be any surprise that…
VR Usage Has Now Been Linked to Physical and Cognitive Improvements
We’ve known for some time know that activities carried out when utilizing virtual reality tools, games, or applications can have benefits in the real-world. As we most notably talk about here at VRFI, virtual reality games can simply help you stay in shape, but other uses of the platform have in the past been found…
Virtuleap and 4th-IR Announce Partnership that Will Help Identify Cognitive Diseases Earlier
Normally here at VRFI, we’re always looking to tell you about the latest VR game or product that can help keep you get in a good sweat, but the status of your overall health extends far beyond your waistline. With this in mind, one new partnership that has come about this week could be even…
Virzoom’s VZFit in the News, as University Study Shows VR and Music Improves Exercise Retention
Virzoom, developers of the popular VR biking software, VZFit got a bit of mainstream attention this month with the publication in the British Journal of Health Psychology of a dual Brunel, London and Exeter University study on the benefits of virtual reality and music in motivating people to exercise. Ordinarily, scientific publications and studies are…
XRHealth Raises Additional $7M to Bolster VR Telehealth Platform
While many might utilize virtual and augmented reality to play games and stay active, XRHealth is a company that has been looking to utilize the platform in recent years for therapeutic means. As of today, the organization has netted itself even more capital to now further this venture. XRHealth announced today that it has acquired…