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The 10 best VR fitness games 2024

What are the best VR fitness games? One seasonal food coma later and you're already pondering how you can use your new VR headset to go from roleplaying as an anime gremlin to improving your health. You're far from the first, you won't be the last, but you've entered the space of VR fitness at just the right time. Forget the gym. Don your new and fancy space specs and get ready to move.

With little to no physical resistance or weight at play without wearable wrist and ankle weights, even the best VR fitness games won't do much to build muscle mass. By mixing movement with beat-heavy music, otherworldly visuals, and scoreboards, gamified fitness can be the shake-up you need to keep sweating. While you're here, our list of the best VR games on PC can help you build up your library, with the best Meta Quest 3 games varying slightly due to its own app store. Just getting started? We've also got the best VR headsets this year.

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Beat Saber v1.34.2 Update with bonus Boom Kitty track released

Hey players!

As promised – A bonus track to the OST 6 is out now! The track 'Cathedral' from your favorite Boom Kitty is exclusively composed for Beat Saber and has Content ID turned off, similar to all other OST songs.

Go get our first spot on the Leaderboards now!

Beat Saber v1.34.0 Update with Original Soundtrack 6 Released

Hey players, we've just released update 1.34.0, featuring the new Original Soundtrack 6 with 4 songs composed exclusively for Beat Saber by the community-beloved artists: Lindsey Stirling, DragonForce, Camellia, and Far Out. But that's not all, we have one additional surprise song releasing soon after! 🤫

OST 6 Track List:
- Lindsey Stirling - Heavy Weight
- Far Out - Lift Off
- DragonForce - Power of the Saber Blade
- Camellia - Tempo-Katana

The OST 6 is a free update for all Beat Saber players and all songs are Content ID free so you can stream them without any limitations.

The update also includes a bunch of new tech and fixes for all platforms, check them below.

Release notes:
[STEAM]
- Fixed: After adding a song to Favorites, a user is not able to select the song in Favorites until re-opening the Favorites list
- Fixed: Default position for Valve controllers (Z position fix)
- Fixed: The 'X' button cannot properly dismiss the pause menu, gameplay flickering briefly before the menu appears again

[Level Editor]
- Added: New easing types with Circle, Bounce, Elastic and Back
- Added: More options for strobes - soft strobes and option to pick strobe “off” color
- Fixed: Several event “hover” issues
- Fixed: Few BPM-related issues

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Beat Saber promotes "cognitive enhancement" new study suggests

Remember the times when we were told video games rot our brains? Well, now they're helping develop them, at least according to a new study from Cognitive Science which shows spending time in Beat Saber and VR in general is a tool to "promote cognitive enhancement".

The study focuses on a sub-genre of VR games known as exergaming. These games - like Beat Saber - put the body through a more rigorous experience, akin to a workout. Virtual reality gaming was put up against shadow boxing videos in the test with VR proving to have positive effects where the SBVs had none on the 11 "young participants".

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Beat Saber v1.33.0 Update with The Rolling Stones Music Pack Released

Experience rock legends – The Rolling Stones – in Beat Saber. The new 11-song music pack features some of their biggest hits like "Paint It Black," along with new tracks from their latest album “Hackney Diamonds.” Get the pack and play now.

Tracklist:
- Angry
- Bite My Head Off
- Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- Gimme Shelter
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Live by the Sword
- Mess it Up
- Paint It Black
- Start Me Up
- Sympathy For The Devil
- Whole Wide World

Release notes:
- Added: The Rolling Stones Music Pack including 11 songs and a new environment
- Added: Main Menu The Rolling Stones takeover
- Updated: Credits
- Improved: saber slash SFX sounds are respecting the overall volume of the songs
- Fixed: The player is able to slice the blocks while they’re despawning

[Level Editor]
- Added: Notes Per Second indicator
- Improved: BPM Tool
- Fixed: Debug “Overdraw” mode

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