Meta Quest now syncs workouts with Android phones and pairs with heart-rate trackers - Engadget

In a 2022 study astir VR fitness, The Washington Post cited a Forrester probe that said 25 percent of American adults online are funny successful buying a VR headset and 18 percent deliberation they'd chiefly usage it for exercise. VR fittingness is simply a increasing space, and Meta has rolled retired a mates of caller health-related features for its Quest headset that could person adjacent much radical to springiness it a try. In its latest update for the device, the institution has rolled retired Health Connect integration for Android users, and, arsenic The Verge reports, the quality to brace Bluetooth bosom complaint monitors with it. 

A Meta spokesperson told the work that if paired with a compatible bosom complaint monitor, the Meta Quest Move overlay tin show a user's bosom complaint connected immoderate crippled oregon app, alongside minutes exercised and calories burned. At the moment, the lone known compatible monitors are the Garmin HRM-Dual and the Polar H10 thorax straps, but different brands and models (even smartwatches) whitethorn beryllium capable to brace with the headset. Meta conscionable can't corroborate if they'll enactment with the Quest arsenic it intended. 

Meanwhile, Health Connect integration volition springiness users the capableness to automatically sync VR workouts with their Android device. Meta archetypal made people's VR fittingness stats viewable extracurricular of their headsets erstwhile it gave iOS users the capableness to sync their advancement with Apple Health past year. Now, Android users tin yet spot their advancement without having to enactment connected the Quest, arsenic well. 

The Health Connect API enables wellness and fittingness information sharing crossed devices and betwixt apps, specified arsenic Samsung Health and MyFitnessPal. To activate the integration, users volition archetypal person to sync their Meta Quest Move stats with the Meta Quest mobile app. They tin bash truthful by going into the Move app successful VR and clicking Settings. Users volition past person to toggle connected "Health Connect by Android" nether the Connected Apps conception wrong the Meta Quest mobile app.

It's unclear if these features are besides making their mode to the archetypal Quest exemplary released nether the Oculus branding. A fewer days ago, the institution sent retired emails to Quest 1 owners, telling them that their devices volition no longer beryllium getting caller features going forward. Meta volition besides lone beryllium releasing captious information and bug patches for the instrumentality until 2024.