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Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by tomc1985 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:51PM (#26801660)
What kind of WFH are you able to do from a fitness-bike-mounted screen? At the very least you are missing important peripherals?

I find it really hard to operate a touchscreen with any dexterity whilst running on an elliptical. Sure the bike itself had really big buttons on the UI, but when I brought in my ipad to play some XCOM, one encounter (usually 10-15 minutes) would take nearly the entire hour I would ride due to butterfingering everything. I can't imagine trying to do anything productive on such a setup.

Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by disabled on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:16PM (#26801848)
I work part-time and I am also an electrical engineering graduate student. I often watch lectures while exercising, for example, and simultaneously take notes.

I use two methods for coding/typing/notes: voice and specialized keyboard. I generally use a specialized braille keyboard, that I can sweat on, however I do wear gloves (see: https://www.atguys.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_inf...).

I know multiple braille codes backwards and forwards, and I generally use a standard 8-key braille keyboard to type English language, computer code, and math. I have a print-related disability, that does not affect visual acuity, but does affect my ability to read (severe convergence insufficiency). So, when working and exercising, I use text to speech feedback when typing with braille code.

For coding with voice I use Dragon Naturally Speaking and VoiceCode (https://www.voicecode.io/). For math and voice I use Mathfly (https://mathfly.org/).

Re:Playpulse ONE – The gaming bike that unlocks your fitness... by maroonblazer on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:06PM (#26801791)
A colleague of mine has an Xbox stationed in front of his stationary bike. A large majority of his gaming time is spent while exercising.