Facebook Explores Integrating Oculus Workouts With Apple Health
- Oculus could let users store workout data in iPhone Health app
- Oculus Move lets users see calories burned in virtual reality
Facebook announced Oculus Move last year as a systemwide feature that can track calories burned and exercise activity during supported games.
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Facebook Inc. is exploring the idea of letting users synchronize workout data from Oculus virtual-reality headsets with Apple Inc.’s Health app on iPhones, according to code discovered in the Oculus iPhone app.
The feature would allow a user of the Oculus Move workout system to add data -- like the number of calories burned -- to the iPhone Health app. Code hidden in the Oculus app also references the ability to view Oculus workout data on the Oculus VR headset that was previously saved to the Apple Health app.