One day I decided to cycle my exercise bike while wearing an Oculus Go headset. Roller Coaster was the VR game especially suitable for my workouts. I bought a couple of similar VR games and started testing them. Gradually, I realized that such apps were not what I was looking for. The tracks were too short lasting only three or four minutes.
As a result, I came up with my own cycling application. It lets you ride as long as you wish.
The track is comfortable and calm being simultaneously diverse and captivating. To check the time, you always have a clock and a timer close at hand.
I hope this application will motivate you to train and your exercise bike won’t turn into a clothes horse.
I’ve been running this application for a long time and now I’m ready to offer it to you.
Just get on your exercise bike wearing a VR headset and keep pedaling! You can ride without end along twisting lanes of a small island. The only limit is the battery capacity of your VR. You can use it with Oculus Quest and Quest2 now.
Email for feedback: exrcsbike@gmail.com
The Tablet
If you look down, you can see a small tablet with some info.
1. Current time from your Oculus Go/Quest.
2. Activity timer.
3. Technical information – frames per second and the velocity in arbitrary units.
4. Lap counter.
5. Local time on the island. One hour on the island is one minute in real time. A day on the island lasts 24 of our minutes.
6. Current music track. There are five tracks in the application, each lasting about twenty minutes: “Casual Music”, “Fantasy Music”, “Asian Music”, “Medieval Music” and “Heavy Metal”. They are played in random order. However, you can turn off the sound of Oculus Go/Quest and listen to your favorite music, radio or podcasts from your smartphone.
Have a look at the birdsview of the island.
Third-party assets
I used these assets:
1. Coast Landscape Racing Track by VIS Games
2. Bicycle Power Simulator by 2TH prod
3. Sky Studio - Dynamic Sky and Weather by Funly
4. Geolocation by BLAKISH
5. Oculus Integration by Oculus
6. Online Check PRO by crosstales LLC
7. DJ PRO by crosstales LLC
8. uWater - Fast Water Shader by VisCircle
The Oculus Go Controller
You can always interrupt the ride by pressing the «Back Button» of the Oculus Go controller, however I recommend that you use the «Oculus Button», since it works much more stably. Press the «Oculus Button» or the «Back Button» once shortly and the Oculus Interrupt dialog appears.
The Oculus Quest Controller
You can always interrupt the ride by pressing the «Oculus Button» of the Oculus Quest touch controller. Press the «Oculus Button» once shortly and the Oculus Interrupt dialog appears.
The 24 hour testing
Once I decided to put this application to a long-time ride test. I assembled a test bench and the application was running for 24 hours without interruptions. Have a look at the activity timer in this video:
Have look the demo for ExrcsBike: