Fitness app Supernatural is becoming part of Meta after Facebook touts VR fitness

Fitness app Supernatural is becoming part of Meta after Facebook touts VR fitness
By Mitchell Clark

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Meta has announced that the studio behind VR workout game Supernatural will be joining the company, adding to the roster of studios owned by what used to be known as Facebook’s Oculus division. The company says that Within, the company behind Supernatural, will continue to work on the popular fitness app and will also help Meta’s Reality Labs “enhance future hardware to support VR fitness apps.”

Meta scooping up Within isn’t necessarily a surprise move: it’s spent the last few years acquiring tons of popular VR studios, like Lone Echo devs Ready at Dawn, the team behind Beat Saber, and others working on projects that some have called the VR versions of Fortnite and Roblox.

Given Meta’s focus on its headsets as workout tools...

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October 30, 2021 at 04:35AM
via The Verge - All Posts

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