Exercise without a shouting trainer [update 1]
Reuters discusses a trend of exercise games for people who want workout instruction without a personal trainer shouting slogans at them. While some of the article is overplayed and inaccurate -- DDR gets coverage and reportedly uses hands in addition to feet -- the PS2 game, Kinetic is also featured.
Kinetic tracks player movements with the EyeToy camera while on-screen trainers direct the workout. Even though Kinetic was released almost a year ago, we've rarely seen it covered in the mainstream press.
Anecdotally, people seem to like videogame workouts; we have friends who still use Yourself!Fitness. Maybe the exercise-game audience will expand as motion-tracking controllers become standard. We've contemplated controller-per-hand boxing game workouts. Maybe a developer will take it further with a barbell or rubber band kit for controller resistance.
See also: W. Virginia to put DDR in all 765 public schools
[Update 1: Thanks Sam and lolersticks for reminding us about the versions of DDR that work with the EyeToy.]
