Biking Apps For Meta Quest 2 or 3 VR Headset?
12-11-23, 12:10 PM
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Biking Apps For Meta Quest 2 or 3 VR Headset?
I'm not sure whether this is the correct forum to ask this, but here goes anyway.
I live in an area of the US where days comfortable enough to ride outside from December thru March are pretty rare. So I'm limited to riding indoors in my garage using a stationary bike adapter during those months. TBH, that's awfully boring for me.
So I'm wondering whether there any apps for the Meta Quest 2 or 3 VR headsets that basically would display some scenery going by as I ride in place? The more varied the scenery, the better and I don't care that the speed of the VR "ride" wouldn't necessarily match my pedaling stroke.
So, is there anything like this out there hat you can recommend?
Thanks!
I live in an area of the US where days comfortable enough to ride outside from December thru March are pretty rare. So I'm limited to riding indoors in my garage using a stationary bike adapter during those months. TBH, that's awfully boring for me.
So I'm wondering whether there any apps for the Meta Quest 2 or 3 VR headsets that basically would display some scenery going by as I ride in place? The more varied the scenery, the better and I don't care that the speed of the VR "ride" wouldn't necessarily match my pedaling stroke.
So, is there anything like this out there hat you can recommend?
Thanks!
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12-15-23, 11:16 AM
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Well, I guess (judging from the lack of responses, that the answer is that there are none.
FWIW - found a work around - Instead of a dedicated app, I watch Youtube videos of POV (Point-of-View) bike and track riding along scenic trails while I'm riding. I just did a 30 minute ridse "on" Jekyll Island, Georgia. Nice!
FWIW - found a work around - Instead of a dedicated app, I watch Youtube videos of POV (Point-of-View) bike and track riding along scenic trails while I'm riding. I just did a 30 minute ridse "on" Jekyll Island, Georgia. Nice!
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I assume you know about Zwift. I don't use it, or VR. A quick search suggests that Zwift doesn't have VR support.
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Well, I guess (judging from the lack of responses, that the answer is that there are none.
FWIW - found a work around - Instead of a dedicated app, I watch Youtube videos of POV (Point-of-View) bike and track riding along scenic trails while I'm riding. I just did a 30 minute ridse "on" Jekyll Island, Georgia. Nice!
FWIW - found a work around - Instead of a dedicated app, I watch Youtube videos of POV (Point-of-View) bike and track riding along scenic trails while I'm riding. I just did a 30 minute ridse "on" Jekyll Island, Georgia. Nice!
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Here's some good downhills from a very interesting YouTuber...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PBGSgKa2wifPMp
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PBGSgKa2wifPMp
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Here's some good downhills from a very interesting YouTuber...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PBGSgKa2wifPMp
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PBGSgKa2wifPMp
I'm more into SAFA Brian vids myself:
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Uh, wow...they rode their apparently crappy brakes virtually the entire 1.5mins I watched that, with crap squeaking and rattling the whole time. The rusty bolts on the stem made me wonder what the rest of the maintenance routine was like, and to surmise that I wouldn't want to ride that bike downhill.
I'm more into SAFA Brian vids myself:
https://youtu.be/LTMsh3y9yjg?si=lXbbur33SHlaSR7g
I'm more into SAFA Brian vids myself:
https://youtu.be/LTMsh3y9yjg?si=lXbbur33SHlaSR7g
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SAFA Brian is great - love that video of him descending with Pidcock and the other where he descends with French rider Romain Bardet (I think) and another French neopro. But I also like watching Jin/Universe with Me as she's been traveling around the world and living on her bicycle since 2011. She's riding with a full, four-pannier and then some load, so she probably needs to temper her speed more than SAFA Brian.
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DCRainmaker has a great eval of biking with the Apple VR headset
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/02/...ors-rouvy.html
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/02/...ors-rouvy.html
