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January 12, 2023 – Meta has announced that arsenic portion of a caller update, users volition present beryllium capable to way their fittingness stats connected Meta Quest, including bosom complaint monitoring, acknowledgment to an Android integration. 

Meta stated that VR fittingness connected Meta Quest is “booming” and arsenic a result, the fittingness marketplace has go a cardinal portion of the company’s VR ecosystem. Over the past year, the institution has made respective announcements demonstrating its committedness to VR fitness, including the motorboat of the Meta Quest 2 Active Pack, arsenic good arsenic the integration of Meta Quest Move with the Meta Quest mobile app.

That integration enabled users to presumption their workout data—including calories burned and minutes worked retired successful VR, positive immoderate goals set—on a mobile device. Meta besides enabled Apple Health users to sync their VR fittingness advancement to their Apple Health app.

With this caller update, Meta is bringing that aforesaid functionality to Android devices with Health Connect by Android. This volition let Android users to grounds VR workouts without having to manually input the minutes they exercised, arsenic good arsenic integrate VR workouts and stats with each different regular fittingness activities connected their Android devices. Ultimately, users volition present beryllium capable to support way of each their VR workouts and compile each their stats successful the aforesaid spot that they way immoderate different regular activities connected Android.

Meta stated that the integration volition enactment connected Android smartphones with Health Connect, and arsenic a result, Android users volition beryllium capable to sync their Meta Quest Move stats to the Meta Quest mobile app, and from determination to Health Connect by Android. If users determine to disconnect from Health Connect successful the Meta Quest mobile app, nary caller Move enactment volition beryllium shared with the app, according to Meta, but immoderate erstwhile enactment volition inactive appear.

For instructions connected however to sync Move stats to the Meta Quest mobile app (after mounting up the Move app successful VR), click here.

With regards to idiosyncratic privacy, Meta stated that it has “designed the tracking of VR fittingness information done the Meta Quest Move app, and the integration of that information into some Apple Health and Health Connect by Android, with privateness astatine the forefront.” 

Our Apple Health and Health Connect by Android integrations are opt-in, and if you take to link Meta Quest Move to the Meta Quest mobile app, each your Move stats—calories burned, minutes of movement, and your goals—are protected by end-to-end encryption erstwhile stored connected our servers and won’t beryllium utilized to pass advertisement targeting connected immoderate Meta services. For afloat details connected idiosyncratic information and privateness with narration to VR fittingness information connected Meta’s devices, delight work the company’s blog post.

For much accusation connected Meta and its VR fittingness offerings, delight sojourn the company’s website.

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Sam Sprigg

Sam is the Founder and Managing Editor of Auganix. With a inheritance successful probe and study writing, helium has been covering XR manufacture quality for the past 5 years.