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An immersive VR exercise session engaged participants in more intense and reportedly enjoyable exercise, with more positive emotions, compared to a workout presented on-screen

This suggests immersive VR could be an efficient alternative to other forms of screen-based workouts

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Acute psychological and physiological benefits of exercising with virtual reality

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Participant wearing the headset and portable metabolic cart.

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Credit: Barbour et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

An immersive VR exercise session engaged participants in more intense and reportedly enjoyable exercise, with more positive emotions, compared to a workout presented on-screen, suggesting immersive VR could be an efficient alternative to other forms of screen-based workouts

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0314331

Article Title: Acute psychological and physiological benefits of exercising with virtual reality

Author Countries: U.K., Australia

Funding: OR received contract research funding from FitXR https://fitxr.com/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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