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I'm interested in this as well. I had a friend play Beat Saber for 3 hours straight, burning literally thousands of calories. He said he felt amazing for the re
by prophesi 8y ago
I'm interested in this as well. I had a friend play Beat Saber for 3 hours straight, burning literally thousands of calories. He said he felt amazing for the rest of the day.
On the flip-side, I personally experienced some serious post-binge depression after playing Talos Principle VR for a few hours. It's not very physically engaging, with a somber atmosphere throughout. I felt so weird taking off the headset and jumping back into reality.
Though I think both scenarios just go to show how powerful VR could potentially be in the medical field.
- taneq 8y agoI've played 1-2 hrs of Beat Saber a day since Tuesday and now I just feel generally achy. Everything hurts. I've lost most of a kilo though. >.> That weird not-quite-real feeling you get after a lot of VR seems to be a thing though. If you're playing something engaging and emotionally heavy I imagine it'd be even stronger.
- always_good 8y agoLet's be honest, though. He didn't burn thousands of calories. You are underestimating how efficient the human body is.
- taneq 8y agoActually I think this is really important. I don't have any science to back this up but I feel like the human body actually changes its tradeoff between efficiency and instantaneous performance based on some so-far-undescribed factor.