With the ubiquity of fitness games on the market, you might be wondering if the physical gym is obsolete. Why spend a large monthly sum on membership fees when you could be burning calories as you game?
If we exercise on a regular basis, we’re more likely to sleep, less likely to be stressed, and better equipped to deal with our daily trials. But the idea of “exercise” feels like a slog for many of us. After hours of work, looking after kids, and dealing with the stresses of life, it feels counterproductive to push ourselves even more.
Beat Saber is particularly exciting because the virtual realm allows us to dance with lightsabers – an activity we never thought we’d do in our lifetime. Headset on, motion controller in each hand, but in the virtual world we’re duel wielding lightsabers like Anakin at the end of Attack of the Clones, as we slash our way through incoming blocks of color. We actually ranked Beat Saber as our top pick of the best VR fitness apps and games earlier this year, so you should definitely check it out.
There are also VR games that set out to make you fit. You’d think this genre defies the objective of accidental exercise through gaming. But if we take a closer look, these titles are more than just fitness routines in game form. Like Ring Fit Adventure and Wii Sports before it, many of them are visual delights with smooth gameplay and an addictive gamified system.