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Meta Quest VR headsets are updated to beryllium compatible with outer fittingness trackers and automatically sync workout information with Android smartphones.

Meta is bringing 2 caller fittingness features to the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro. Users volition soon beryllium capable to automatically sync their workout information with Android smartphones. In addition, the mobile VR headset tin beryllium paired with a bosom complaint show oregon smartwatch via Bluetooth.

Move update enables Android synchronization

With the integrated fittingness tracker Meta Quest Move (formerly Oculus Move), the Quest VR headset tin grounds your workout show successful virtual reality. This includes calories burned oregon clip spent successful VR fittingness games.

However, 2 features important for fittingness tracking were missing until now: bosom complaint measurement and automatic synchronization with information collected extracurricular of VR.

Since past summer, Meta Quest users person astatine slightest been capable to entree captured workout information from Meta Quest Move via the Quest app connected their smartphone. Part of the update besides included automatic syncing of Apple Health and Meta Quest Move. Meta is present adding this diagnostic for Android smartphones arsenic well.

After the update, you tin brace Meta Quest Move with Google Health Connect. The information from the VR headset volition past automatically travel into your smartphone’s fittingness tracker app (e.g. Google Fit) with the regular information collected from your smartwatch.

How to link Meta Quest Move with Health Connect connected Android

Launch Google Health Connect connected your Android smartphone and assistance entree support to the Meta Quest app. To larn however to sync Meta Quest Move successful the VR headset with Android oregon iOS, work this article.

Then unfastened the Meta Quest app connected your smartphone and motorboat the Move integration. You tin find it nether the “Discover” oregon “Menu” tabs, which you tin prime astatine the bottommost of the screen. Then unfastened the “Connected Apps” tab and activate the transportation to Health Connect.

Meta Quest volition soon beryllium compatible with bosom complaint monitors

Also caller is the Quest VR headset’s compatibility with Bluetooth bosom complaint monitors. “When a compatible bosom complaint show is paired with Meta Quest Move, the bosom complaint overlay volition beryllium displayed crossed immoderate crippled oregon app successful VR. A developer volition not request to integrate,” a Meta spokesperson told The Verge.

Developers would not request to execute immoderate further integrations. Compatible devices see the Garmin HRM-Dual and Polar H10 thorax straps, arsenic good arsenic galore smartwatches. We don’t yet cognize erstwhile precisely the caller fittingness features for Meta Quest Move and a database of compatible devices volition beryllium released.

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