Zuckerberg on Quest 2 as a fitness device: “It’s a bit like a Peloton” – TechCrunch

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Facebook wants Quest 2 to be known as more of a game console for your face.

At the company’s Facebook Connect developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the company’s efforts to make Quest a fitness platform for third-party apps like Supernatural and FitXR. He compared it directly to the Peloton as a connected fitness device.

“Many of you are already using Quest to stay fit, it allows you to train in whole new ways,” Zuckerberg said in the keynote. “It’s kind of like a Peloton, but instead of your bike you just have your VR headset and with it, you can do anything from boxing lessons to sword fighting to even dancing.”

The company is getting even closer to this classification with hardware details that next year they will release an “Active Pack” that will allow users to customize their Quest 2 headphones to make it more functional for training. The package will add grips to the controllers and a face pad that solves the problem of sweaty headphones.

In recent years, the company has begun to push fitness into headphones more, introducing a product called the Oculus Move that measures activity and tracking calorie consumption in the Quest 2.

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