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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) by imgabe on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:20PM (#39236718)
> but even everybody will quickly realize that standing and crouching and waving their arms around all day "picking up" data-objects and and "dropping" them into virtual filing zones is going nowhere.

It might just solve the obesity epidemic though.

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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) by belltaco on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:08PM (#39237218)
Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise. The body gets really efficient at doing repetitive motions and starts burning fewer calories for the same actions.
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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) by imgabe on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:39AM (#39238070)
Moving will always burn more calories than not moving.
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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) by belltaco on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:52AM (#39238125)
Not necessarily.

> In 2016, Pontzer and colleagues published a study putting forward the constrained energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with more activity, but only to a point. Once physical activity gets really high, the body will adjust other components of the metabolism to keep your daily energy expenditure within a narrow range

https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-off...

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Re:Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017) by imgabe on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:22AM (#39238209)
99.9% of people do not need to worry about reaching a “really high” level of activity where it will stop burning more calories.
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