Issue #18: Use Cases of Metaverse: Fitness
Sankalp Shangari
MD @ Rising Capital | Crypto & AI Investments | Writing on Macro & Crypto | Podcast: Greed is Good
By utilizing cutting-edge technology like AR and VR, the Metaverse is able to replicate the real world. As the next-generation of the internet and social media, the metaverse provides many economic prospects to companies globally. In the future, for instance;
This speaks volume about the multitude of use cases that the Metaverse has across different domains. In this article, we will talk in length about the amalgamation of metaverse with fitness
With the emerging trend of fitness gamification, VR gaming and fitness will merge in the future. This suggests the creation of a brand-new type of immersive workout in which all elements of a gym setting, including music, images, wearables, and instructors, come together on a single platform to provide users with an energising workout. Due to these developments, VR training apps are also being created that will bring the well-known martial arts workout to the metaverse environment in a fun, gamified format.
Future fitness groups will gain greatly from the metaverse since it will make it possible for them to connect with new audiences. Additionally, it will ensure that fitness clubs can better assist members in adjusting to their hybrid models because the metaverse experience would allow users to simulate real-world workouts.
The Gen-Z of today are more inclined toward having a more robust training experience than a typical fitness regimen that includes essential fitness mantras.. Younger fitness enthusiasts are concentrating on creating a workout regimen that is both interesting and nutritious.
What Will Be The Impact of Metaverse on the Fitness Industry?
With Metaverse becoming a part of the fitness segment, it will give an opportunity to the fitness aficionados to communicate with other users and live as an avatar in the virtual reality platform. The members can converse with buddies who are jogging beside on a treadmill in the Metaverse while exercising.
With metaverse and fitness tied together, people will be able to workout together and get trained by some amazing professional trainers irrespective of their geographical locations. This all will be done in a virtual fitness centre and people still need to use real training machines like ellipticals, treadmills, and weights. This is one great way? to make fitness accessible to one and all along with ensuring that new and interactive methods of working out are devised and followed.?
With metaverse, you don’t have to play badminton or tennis alone, instead play along with a bunch of friends. All that you would need is enough space to run around and enjoy a fun and virtually immersive game. With this new technology, the possibilities are unlimited.
Fitness Brands Already Embracing the Metaverse
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Vital Veda is hailed as one of the largest Metaverse fitness platforms as it offers the users a new virtual workout experience. It starts by training virtually and ends with challenges and contests where players have a chance to win tokens and later use them in developing their virtual characters or even generating a passive income from them.
2. Trib3?
In collaboration with OliveX, a Fitness Metaverse firm, Trib3 has created the first gym to debut in the Sandbox and offer distinctive user experiences. It offers gamified fitness experiences on the blockchain to offer an immersive fitness experience and empower the people with digital property rights.
They make use of Dose tokens - "The token that keeps you fit," that can be used to buy NFTs, unlock merchandise, and take part in exclusive events.
3. Gym Aesthetics?
Gym Aesthetics is another brand that has been a key player in the metaverse based fitness industry. It introduced Ares, the first avatar from the Gym A X Dustland Runner NFT project, as they launched their Gymetaverse in The Sandbox.?
The brand ties together the ideas of the gym with the metaverse to give gym enthusiasts a fresh and engaging experience. They allow the users to reach their health goals wherever they are with the help of virtual exercises, which also include more interesting fitness activities and immersive gamification of fitness in a digital environment.?
Key Takeaway
In the metaverse, exercising can be a fun, gratifying, and social activity. And it's simply enjoyable.?
In a shared virtual environment called the Metaverse, people can communicate with one another. Imagine a place where you could mingle and workout all at once! The Metaverse provides its users with this.
You can communicate with other gamers, establish friends, and meet new people to hang out with when you workout in the virtual world. Cheers to a brighter, more engaging and fitness first future.
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