The Oculus Quest 2 is Facebook’s latest foray into virtual reality gaming. In still another, I rowed a kayak to infiltrate an enemy base. In another game, I played Texas hold ’em poker with a table of chatty players. That’s just part of what I’ve been doing in Facebook’s new virtual-reality system, the Oculus Quest 2, which the company unveiled on Wednesday, to escape from the seemingly never-ending pandemic-induced stay-at-home session. But in a pandemic that has forced most fitness centers to shut down, I had to settle for a make-believe boxing class while wearing a computer headset and jabbing and punching with a pair of motion-sensing controllers. Normally, this would be the result of a workout at my local gym. By the end of the 20-minute workout, I’d broken a sweat and my smartwatch showed my heart rate thumping at 140 beats a minute. A group of five boxers and I recently threw punches to upbeat music while an instructor egged us on.
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