{"id":20123,"date":"2015-12-20T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/this-virtual-reality-bike-could-kill-the-boredom-of-exercise"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:21:17","slug":"this-virtual-reality-bike-could-kill-the-boredom-of-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/this-virtual-reality-bike-could-kill-the-boredom-of-exercise","title":{"rendered":"This virtual reality bike could kill the boredom of exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stephen-virzoom-780x410.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Society isn\u2019t ready to take a medium seriously until it can provide certain things. The first, and most obvious, achievement is <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/10\/30\/have-a-sexy-halloween-with-this-vr-porn-horror-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">it must work with porn<\/a>. Virtual reality passed that benchmark a long time ago, and it seems to have no problem revisiting it over and over again. So what\u2019s the next trial that virtual reality must face on its quest to becoming a true consumer medium?<\/p>\n<p>Someone has to try and make me exercise with it.<\/p>\n<p>That someone are the makers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/virzoom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virzoom<\/a>, an exercise bike and app suite for the Oculus Rift headset. The VirZOOM is <a href=\"http:\/\/virzoom.com\/preorder-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">available for preorder today<\/a>, with the first 300 units are $200 (it\u2019s regular price $250).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/12\/17\/this-virtual-reality-bike-could-kill-the-boredom-of-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society isn\u2019t ready to take a medium seriously until it can provide certain things. The first, and most obvious, achievement is it must work with porn. Virtual reality passed that benchmark a long time ago, and it seems to have no problem revisiting it over and over again. So what\u2019s the next trial that virtual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20123\/revisions\/44848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}