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Soar The Open Skies

Spread Your Wings and Fly

Keep Flying, VZfit Play’s 11th game, and the 3rd in our Pegasus series, offers the advanced VZfit player a unique experience and challenge that brings new life to our canyon level, both in gameplay and design- and is available today!

Spring Has Come to the Canyon

The first thing you may notice in this video is that the home of our beloved Pegasus has a new look. What was once an arid desert now has more life with lush trees springing up all around. Not only will this new look be featured in Keep Flying, but you will also get to enjoy it in Gate Race and Gem Hunt. We hope you like it as much as the racoons and rabbits of the canyon do!

Your score multiplier increases every 20 apples or gems you collect,  but be strategic because they won’t respawn while you’re in the air! Run out of energy and your Pegasus will gently float back down to the ground, resetting your score multiplier and respawning all of the apples and gems.

One Week Left to Enter!

We hope you have enjoyed your time on our VR Fitness Summit rides! This is a reminder to sign up on the Virtual Athletic League site for a chance to win part of the prize pool.

Riding any of the rides for at least 10 minutes between the dates of August 17th and Sept 7th gives you a chance at the prize pool!
 

For more information on the rides and tournament details:

 https://www.virzoom.com/2020/08/20/vr-fitness-summit-and-tournament/

Last Chance for VirZOOM Sensor Kit

VZfit moves to third party hardware.

It''s a bittersweet day for us as we say goodbye to our sensor kit, but a bright future ahead for new hardware partnerships and flexibility for our customers.

• We will stop selling the sensor kit on 11/01/2020.
• We have maintained enough inventory to cover all warranties.
• We will be updating the website to make it easier for you to recommend us to friends and for them to find what they need.

How This Elementary School Teacher is Using VZFit in PE Class

Since the great response from his students, Joe has been looking into more virtual reality fitness options. However, he says "VZFit seems to be the only one of its kind at this point." Joe's students rotate between VZFit Play and Explorer daily. He says their curiosity is shooting through the roof. "What will Mr. Lucero bring in next?"

Do you have a story similar to Joe? A fun and creative way that your using your VZFit?  We would love to hear from you! 

Year One Major Update

In March of 2019 we officially launched VZfit and since then the response to the Sensor kit and VZfit Apps has been amazing. As of February our users are doing over 8 million spins per month! Over the last year we have made major improvements and additions to VZfit, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to make today!  Before we get to those announcements and our direction for the future, let's do a quick recap. If you want to check out everything we do be sure to look at our Updates Page.

Year One - In Review

VZfit Play

Going into the launch, VZfit Play had 8 games available, covering the spectrum from relaxing experiences like Le Tour to the more intense Helicopter battles. Over the past year we have added Winterstan, a larger tank battle level,  Cali Rally, a California coast cycling level and Keep Flying, a pegasus canyon level.  In addition to the new levels, we gave you something to work towards when we added Avatar Upgrades which not only affect your appearance but can also give you gameplay advantage. One of the most popular additions, especially for our Tank players, was when Head-to-head multiplayer games with voice chat, were added to Play. Having a human opponent on the other end really livens up the experience and makes a workout fly by.

VZfit Explorer

VZfit Explorer was a brand new app going into launch and one we were super excited about. Never before have you been able to ride nearly anywhere in the world and it really embodies the goal at VirZOOM, which was to make cycling in VR feel like cycling outside. 

One of the first additions to Explorer was the Trainer. Whether you're looking for a HIIT, Tabata or Interval workout they are there to keep you company and provide the motivation you need for a good workout. Next was the ability to customize rides outside of VR using Google My Maps to export and Upload Rides.  In September we added Matchup Rides. Now not only can you ride almost anywhere, but you can meet up with a friend and ride it together!   One of the largest improvements we made was the implementation of additional rendering modes in Explorer that you can switch on the fly;  Comfort mode for more VR sensitive users and City Mode to allow further exploration in places where our standard rendering didn't work very well due to buildings and cars.

Community

All the hard work that we put into improving VZfit would be nothing without our community to help spread the word and play the games. Great Youtubers like Go Bros, BMF, Tyco Tech and Cas and Chary all shared VZfit with their audiences. While other users like Superlith, GoHybrid, Shon_T, Blakestar20, Justkelly and many others have shared their experiences in VZfit with many other members of the community and their friends.

Announcements

To cap off the end of year one we have two major announcements, the first of which is going to blow the doors wide open for VZfit.

Third Party Cadence & Speed Sensor Support

That's right- you read that correctly- we are opening up VZfit to a huge range of available cadence and speed sensors.

Why now?

Buy Local

Another major reason we looked into this was the trouble with international shipping. We now have users in 42 different countries! VirZOOM is a pretty small US based company and we know that the shipping, tariffs, and duties have been a constant headache for our international customers.  By allowing users to purchase something locally, or even online in their own country we can help reduce that burden across the board. 

In addition to speed and cadence sensors, we have added support for third party media buttons as well as the Oculus Go and Quest hand controllers. This again allows users to purchase a local solution or a button they prefer and use it with our games.

What Works?

We are testing many third party sensors as fast as we can. To see what we have tested and to check your gear you can look at our VZFit Compatibility page. If you have a sensor or button you have tried, let us know about it and we can add it to the list.

So starting today, all you need is a Cadence or Speed Sensor and your Oculus controller to get in and give VZfit a try. 

Lotus Pond - Release

The final release for VZfit year one is a completely unique game for VZfit Play called Lotus Pond.  Many of you have seen the kayaking game in trailers and we are happy to finally have released it!

The Future

So that's Year 1!

What do we have planned for the future?

First off, with the addition of Cadence and Speed sensors we know that the next question is "What about smart trainers and smart bikes?".  We are working with some of the trainer companies like Wahoo now to make VZfit compatible with those devices and hope to be able to announce more soon. 

VirZOOM is constantly making new exercise games and improvements, based on your feedback and the inspiring possibilities of VR.  Our customers are composed of gamers and fitness enthusiasts so we get requests for more multiplayer features, more goal & progress tracking features, game ideas, as well as lots of little improvements to make their workouts better each day.  

We track all of these ideas in a backlog and plan releases every month.  For instance we're currently adding 3D popups about interesting locations, integration with Strava to upload your rides, and streaming music to Explorer for the month of April.

Again, a heartfelt thank you to everyone for an amazing first year. We wouldn't be here without you.

Happy Biking and Stay Healthy.

MORE big news!
 
As you know, we recently announced our big upcoming move into the Facebook storefront. 
 
To bring this new VZfit tech to you, we're taking a unique approach: Equity crowdfunding.
 
What does that mean exactly?
 
It means that you'll be able to invest directly in VirZOOM via our upcoming campaign on Wefunder, with investments starting as low as $100.
 
Your investment will give you a future equity stake in VirZOOM. This is not a donation, but a true investment opportunity- which means that as we grow, so will your returns.
 
You don't have to be rich to make an investment, you just have to believe in us and our technology. Here's a deeper look at exactly how Wefunder works. 
 
The countdown is on now to our campaign launch, and when you click the link below you'll be able to preview the opportunity and countdown to our public investment launch with us!

It's officially time! Our VirZOOM campaign is live on Wefunder, and you can invest now starting at $100.
 
We do have a cap on our fundraising for this round, so be sure to invest early to get in on this opportunity at our current valuation.
 
Even better, we have some special perks for our investors! Those of you who invest at least $1,000 will receive a free lifetime VZFit membership.
 
Click below to visit the campaign now! 

Thanks again for following our VirZOOM journey.

-The VirZOOM team

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