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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel so we're doing something a little quirky a little fun a little different today and that is we're doing a weight loss VR challenge to see if yours truly can lose any weight at all from playing VR over the course of the next 30 days and the reason for this is not because I feel like I need to lose weight I feel like I could stand to lose some lbs don't get me wrong I'm not the thinnest guy in the park that's a phrase somewhere but I mean I wanted to do this idea for a long time I thought it'd be really interesting to see if you could replace a traditional workout routine with virtual reality because if you can that's great because we are super fun and go to the gym sucks I mean I'd rather get kicked in the balls three times a day then go to the gym is horrible so I think this will be a cool experiment and for all of you health nuts out there all you fitness gurus I'm sure you're probably cringing right now Gong Kyle this is not a practical or proper workout method because you should be lifting weights and building muscle if you really want to lose weight properly and I understand I get I'm not claiming to be a fitness guru myself nor am i claiming this methodology of workout to be practical or even beneficial to you all I'm curious to know is if you can lose weight through this super unorthodox method so try not to take it too seriously I'm certainly not but the other thing that I will say that I'm going to try to do is watch what I eat a little bit more for this next thirty days because I think that would give this experiment a fighting chance like it's gonna be bad if I'm just eating cake for every meal but I'm not going to be implementing a fad diet at the same time I'm gonna be cutting out all all carbs I might just be refraining from having that third cookie as a buffet line if that makes sense so yeah I think nutrition and diet is as important is an important factor to losing weight even if you are exercising now I did give some consideration as to what gains I'd actually be playing for this challenge and what I settled on was just a single title in that title being hollow point this is an indie game that it's an archery for those of you who are unaware and Joe Durbin of upload Viacom actually did a test who he tested about a dozen or so VR games to see which ones would be the best at burning calories and he found hollow point to be one of the highest ranking I'm actually burning anywhere from seven to eight hundred calories per hour it's a metric F ton of calories to be burned from playing a video game nonetheless so that's what we're going to be settling on today as far as frequency and duration I'm going to be doing hour-long sessions so 60 minutes per session in VR playing hollow point four four times a week at least four times a week I'm setting a minimum for myself with no maximum cap I mean I could do five days a week if I wanted to or more but four days a week for an hour a day is the absolute minimum for the next 30-day term now as I go about jumping around looking like an idiot and VR I will be tracking some of the metrics there so I did pick up this Fitness band from Garmin it's the vivosmart HR plus it's actually one of the more highly reviewed fitness bands that I could find online and it seems to track most of the things I need it for including heart rates steps calories intensity minutes held that can't wait to find out what intensity minutes are but anyway I'll put a link to this in the description below for those of you interested seems to be pretty good I already like sort of how it how it looks and feels on how the how it charges and things like that but I'm going to be putting it on for the first time today when we kick off hollow-point day one and I think we're actually ready to do that now let's go ahead and strap in - no wait so in order to find out how much weight I've lost by the end of this term first one needs to know how much weight one waves so to the scale we go alright so there she is been a while it's been a while scale you look a little dusty there apparently I've been machined to use you lately now before I step on this scale I want to quickly document exactly what I'm wearing so I know what to wear when I weigh myself again thirty days from now so I've got my my faded black jeans here ok nothing in my pockets nothing wallet no phone no no nothing I've got a no belt either so if that's my underwear don't look at that I've got the Paul Hardware shirt on ok good quality that's very light and I've actually got my lavalier transmitter off to the side here so I'm not weighing now because it does weigh something so I'm not wearing that just just actual microphone itself and of course I'm carrying the camera I will be carrying the camera on day 30 as well so here we go stepping on the scale Joe stand up straight 164 no I can't read 167 point 4 don't look at my feet Peter weird so that's that's how much their way and I'm going to try to shed as much off of that number as I possibly can in the next month or so in the next four weeks so ladies and gentlemen I think we are at that point where I can finally strap in to a VR headset and play some damn video games and hopefully become less fat let's do that all right so that was a lot of fun actually and equally exhausting I know you can't tell right now because I'm all showered and changed and stuff but I was sweating a great deal after that hour guys I mean my legs were burning even just like 30 minutes in which is also a huge reminder that I'm severely out of shape but hopefully it gets better and gets easier as I do this more regularly hopefully by the end of the 30 day period I will feel a bit more strong and not Peter out so quickly but I did do the full hour so congrats to me you can hold your applause till the end I know but yeah it was pretty cool I definitely feel like I got a good workout I think is the important thing that being said there were a couple snags and issues along the way just you know nature of the vr platform that sort of held back the overall experience the first one being the obvious record coming from the hmd was just such a pain in the ass getting tangled on my my legs on my ankles my feet I even pulled out the the cables out of the little module like four or five times just because especially in the game like hollow point where you're turning around constantly and moving quite a bit it was definitely a huge annoyance and I feel like if this was to be a sustained in order to be a sustainable workout method I would want a wireless chipset on that bad boy like I think that vibe or HTC's recently been pushing the TP cast which is like a wireless 60 gigahertz module that connects to the vibe and it's wireless so you're completely untethered I would love to get one of those I think that's kind of necessary if you are going to be using VR to workout the second thing were the earbuds so if you notice at the beginning I had some earbuds towards the end I actually took them out I took them out probably within the first 20 minutes because as I started to sweat it's really gross I know it started to sort of lubricate the the earpieces and it's sort of like just falling out of my ears any time I turn around we just fall out it was really annoying so I eventually just took the earbuds out and had to use a speaker because I still wanted that upbeat hollow point music to get me in the zone and stuff but the other thing I would say is you could use I could have used like some over the ear headphones or some standard head headphones but I don't currently have any that have a tight enough clamp for us and those also would just fly off my head in a game like hollow point so something to consider there and the last issue that I have a sort of experiencing is sort of like the lesser of the three evils that I'm talking about here but it with space physical space and and Greta I do have a dedicated area here in the office but like the dimensions barely meet the requirements for room scale support for the HTC vive so I did feel quite limited and just how much I was able to roam around in the game and that sort of held me back because there was always that thought in the back of my mind that I might you know slam my hand into a metal edge on my shelving or puncture the monitor with one of the controllers things like that kept me from being able to really let go and go full throttle in the game itself so there are some things to consider there if you were attempting to go this route for for your exercise routine the other thing that I want to mention here and I'll close this video up is the data tracking that we picked up from the the vivosmart HR + the garment I do have some metrics here but they don't really fall in line with what I was seeing in the VR of the upload VR article and that's probably there's a number of factors at play that could be causing that variance but I was only seeing 231 calories burned in that whole hour that seems I mean I definitely felt and looked like I burned a lot more than around 200 calories but I'll keep a close eye on I'll do some more investigation as time goes on and these next four weeks but distance seems a bit more in line two point three eight miles so almost two and a half miles not bad for being in my room the whole time that was at an average speed of 1.7 miles per hour and I think I did look at my band at one point and saw my heart rate going about around 90 beats per minute I don't know what my target you know heart rate is supposed to be or anything like that but it sounds higher than it normally is which is like five I don't know probably dying if it was five but honestly I think that sort of wraps up what I have to say in this video guys part two is going to be around 30 days from now bear in mind I actually have to make the video after the 30 days so let's let's say 32 to 35 days from this date a video part 2 will go up in part 2 we'll also sort of go over whether or not VR makes sense as it were scout tool and this isn't something that I really considered at the beginning of making this little series I was just like let's see if I can lose weight and now I'm like well what if it works what if it's actually really great and I want to continue doing it I'm going to give my full opinion on using VR as a workout tool in part two so that should be pretty exciting as well be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss that and a bunch of other tech content that's going to be coming much sooner but that's going to do it for now guys thank you so much be sure to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it I'll see you guys in the next one