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[Julio93]

http://www.gamespot....box-one-6415061

 

 

Microsoft today announced Xbox Fitness for Xbox One, an all-new online service built for the next-generation console. The service takes existing fitness videos from popular fitness brands and makes them interactive.

 

Xbox Fitness features an "extensive" library of interactive programs from fitness routines like P90X and Insanity, as well as Jillian Michaels and Tracy Anderson. Xbox Fitness will be free for Xbox Live Gold members through December 2014.

Using Kinect, Xbox Fitness can read a player's heart rate without using a monitor, Microsoft said. The technology can also detect and determine which muscles are "most engaged" by measuring power, force, and transfer of weight within the body. The quality of performance is also measured, tracking balance, tempo, and form, Microsoft said.

The Xbox Fitness service will also deliver personalized program recommendations determined by past performance and workout history. A "variety" of workouts will be available, Microsoft said, ranging from 10 to 60 minutes in length.

Xbox Fitness also boasts a social component, allowing users to participate in challenges and then post results for friends and the community at large to try to match.

An Xbox Fitness Pass is included with Xbox Live Gold membership through the end of the year. Pricing for an Xbox Fitness Pass after the introductory period ends was not announced.

 

 

 

This seems familiar.......Remember when Videogame consoles were about videogames? Me neither.

[Mocha Bear]

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This seems familiar.......Remember when Videogame consoles were about videogames? Me neither.

 

Oh Microsoft...now that i think about it, this was somehwhat of an inevitability with the Kinect and all.

I'm not sure if it would appeal to most people but maybe the fact that the fitness routines are free for gold members would actually convince people to use it.

[Kokirii]

So Wii Fit U with more popular programs and no equipment?

[SPG]

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This seems familiar.......Remember when Videogame consoles were about videogames? Me neither.

technically, video game consoles are just limited pcs, as time goes on there are obviously less limits with the advances in technology, so who cares if video game consoles can do more then just play games, its still a pc

[Hank Hill]

To be fair, Fitness/Exercise/Dance games are just about the only genres that actually WORK with Kinect, so...yeah.

[AndyG]

This seems interesting but of course it won't be to everyones taste.

I wonder how intense these exercises will be?

[magiciandude]

Can you play the fitness trainer in a fighting game? No? Then GTFO.

[Wolfy]

omg so bad it not evin nitnendo wii fit is best if not nintendo bad sry microfail$$$!@$!@$!@$

[grahamf]

Do you get ass shots of the trainer in this game?