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Once seen as the sole preserve of kids and reclusive bedroom coders, video gaming has come a long way since first making a seismic cultural impact in the early 1980s. And there is no area of gaming that holds such transformative potential as virtual reality, where motion-tracking headsets and other integrated peripherals are used to transport the user into a fully enveloping 360-degree 3D virtual environment.
It’s difficult to describe just how immersive VR can be unless you’ve experienced it but, simply put, it’s bleeding-edge tech capable of fooling your senses in any number of ways. For the modern fitness enthusiast, progressing one’s performance through incremental gains is often as much to do with psychology as it is to do with physicality, and therefore VR’s potential to ‘hack’ our senses and shift our psychology is particularly intriguing.
