Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness motivation

Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by mikestew on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:27PM (#26801488)

It does exist. Or at least it should. We bought a treadmill that connects to Zwift, and it does so seamlessly without any of the usual Bluetooth bullshit (Horizon Fitness, if anyone cares). A quick glance says their bike should work just as well:

https://www.horizonfitness.com/ic79-indoor-cycle

Zwift used to have a list of compatible treadmills, and I assume the same for bikes. I'd go poke around on their site for that list.

Apple Fitness+, OTOH, is more of a trick. I think the machine needs to connect to the Apple Watch with GymKit. Yeah, good luck finding something and even better luck finding something for less than ten grand (US$). Apple's either going to have to come up with some dead-simple API, or companies are going to have to catch up to Fitness+. But as of six months ago, I couldn't find anything at a reasonable price (or much at all, really).

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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by voisin on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:18AM (#26820817)

Thank you! I'll take a closer look at Horizon. I came across them several months ago but it seemed their treadmills were all out of stock and from the forums I read, when they came back in stock they were bought up quite quickly.

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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by mikestew on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:39AM (#26821781)

When we bought our treadmill, everything was out of stock. We waited a month or two for ours. You couldn't even buy a set of dumbbells unless you wanted to pay scalper prices. But it's been a year now, perhaps everyone that wanted a home exercise machine has one now. :-)

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