Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness motivation

Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by munk-a on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:14PM (#26800044)

I think there's a real issue with any sort of bike desk/gaming setup which is that it's hard to interact with a stable system while biking so the interface necessarily needs to be tuned to cruder inputs. Biking is mostly a leg activity but the rest of the body does get involved and ends up making using something like a mouse or keyboard require a lot of work to provide a stable platform.

Bikes as display devices with crude inputs feels like the maximum we can get for a consumer device.

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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by geoelectric on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:40PM (#26800368)

I think the idea for these tends to be more like having the little cycle thing under your desk. You don't use them to exercise at full tilt or pull sprints, more like you spend an hour or two doing whatever while keeping your legs moving on something with just enough resistance to maybe matter.

I briefly used a FitDesk (which is an exercise cycle with a lap-desk-quality platform rather than handlebars) and the cycling motions really weren't an issue for typing. But they did make the monitor bounce a lot. That was way more of a problem.

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