{"id":2123,"date":"2017-01-05T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2017-01-10T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T22:41:00","slug":"life-fitness-partners-with-virzoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/life-fitness-partners-with-virzoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Fitness Partners With VirZOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LifeLife Fitness: What We Live For<\/p>\n

ROSEMONT, IL<\/strong> – Life Fitness, a global leader in commercial fitness equipment, announced a partnership with VirZOOM, a maker of virtual reality games, to pilot a virtual reality solution that can be used with fitness equipment. At CES 2017 in Las Vegas, the companies announced their partnership and plans to host pilot virtual reality competitions at select global commercial fitness facilities in Q1 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroducing virtual reality to our Life Fitness equipment is an exciting step in the evolution of providing completely immersive and engaging experiences to workouts,\u201d said Amad Amin, Life Fitness product director of digital experience. \u201cOur partnership with VirZOOM is a natural next step in building on our workout experience. Whether you are competitive or want to escape and enjoy your workout, there is something in the virtual reality experience for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

This pilot partnership launches the VirZOOM solution, which transforms Life Fitness\u2019 Discover SE3 bikes into a virtual reality experience. The VirZOOM Module allows VirZOOM software to access data from the bikes such as pedal speed, resistance buttons and heart rate which enable VirZOOM gameplay.<\/p>\n

Users will be able to use the resistance buttons on the bikes to control gameplay when the VirZOOM Module is plugged into the console and enabled.<\/p>\n

Life Fitness was the first fitness equipment manufacturer to open portions of its product platform via APIs in 2012, allowing developers access so third-parties can create applications that work directly with Life Fitness equipment. In so doing, VirZOOM was able to use Life fitness APIs to connect the VR solution with the company\u2019s bikes, allowing for an engaging VR experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe VirZOOM and Life Fitness partnership expands the world of virtual reality into commercial fitness facilities,\u201d said Spencer Honeyman, Director of Business Development at VirZOOM.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeveraging VirZOOM technology and games with Life Fitness equipment harnesses the users\u2019 emotional response in VR and motivates them to move. Using the pedal stroke to operate a car, tank, Pegasus and more motivates exercisers to move like never before \u2013 and enjoy themselves while they get a workout.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROSEMONT, IL<\/strong> – Life Fitness, a global leader in commercial fitness equipment, announced a partnership with VirZOOM, a maker of virtual reality games, to pilot a virtual reality solution that can be used with fitness equipment. At CES 2017 in Las Vegas, the companies announced their partnership and plans to host pilot virtual reality competitions at select global commercial fitness facilities in Q1 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}