Show HN: VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot

Here are two videos of the game in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnzuIsVT6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSPQulHXlJo

From the title I thought you made a calisthenics VR game where the trainer/competitor was Gal Gadot lol.

Is there a YouTube video or something I can check out before downloading?

After several questions if this would work on other headsets as well I made some changes and the master branch currently runs on OpenVR as well, which means it will work on platforms that have SteamVR.

Is it within the realm of possibility to use this with a Rift S?

I can attest to sweating. If you really get into it you can expect to change all your clothing afterwards.

For those who are curious what score the dev reaches. I've just done the full workout (all 6 songs in a row, each on hard to get the most points) and im soaked now.

The total time is ~20 minutes (1172.86 seconds) The final score was 306080 points

Have you tried Synth Riders? It's similar but the aesthetic is different, the music is different, and rather than chopping at things you have to dance through them. The more energetic and accurate your dance is, the better your score. I find it more fun than Beat Saber.

Both are beat games. The most obvious way to see the difference between them is to watch someone else playing each. One game looks like someone dancing around and trying to look cool, the other looks like a robot being short circuited.

If you have experience with Beat Saber you can go straight in at expert modes in Synth Rider (e.g. level 4 or 5).

SR is also more like a puzzle game for me, there are certain songs where you have to figure out what kind of dance moves would make it physically possible to complete the track perfectly, how you could modify them to get more points etc.

No connection to the developers of either game, and both are worth owning.

I fully agree with you, Beat Saber is incredibly well designed and makes a lot of fun. But after playing it for a while (and also Box VR), I felt I was missing something if I wanted to use it as a workout.

That's why I started this, to try and create something that does the maximum of physical workout (in terms of body parts that are used) that I could squeeze out of the VR gameplay while still making it entertaining.

So I am coming at it from the opposite direction beat saber does.

Fun music game that is also physically engaging <-vs-> Physically intensive game that is also somewhat fun

I just added jumping as the fifth type of exercise. I am not sure how it will be received by the players, but I think with all the different movements the game currently has it could also be a fun party game where people can make fun of themselves for jumping around like mad, not just an exercise game.

At the moment it will only run on the Oculus Quest. There is nothing really keeping it from working on other 6DOF headsets as well, the Initialization code may need to be tweaked a bit but I don't plan to at the moment.

You could take the source and check the Godot VR tutorial (https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/vr/vr_starter_...) to see if you can modify it for your own headset.

And without hand tracking it may be a bit uncomfortable to do push ups. But maybe the knuckles controller will be comfortable enough.

That depends on where you are coming from. If you are using Godot 3.2 stable then you just need to set "Hand Tracking" to "optional" in the Android export settings.

As for the code for using it there are a initialization steps you have to do in your main scene. I suggest you take a look at the hand tracking demo in the godot_oculus_mobile plugin (https://github.com/GodotVR/godot_oculus_mobile)

However, if you are using an older beta release of 3.2 then I suggest upgrading to 3.2-stable because the packaged apk in the export templates does not have to correct permissions to support hand tracking.

It does the usual point counting how many and how accurately you hit the cues. This is somehow an indicator how in shape you are but, apart from that there is no measurement of body properties

I am developing on a linux laptop with a mediocre graphics card.

Godot is a ~500MB Download (including the export templates), and that's it. It's fast, and does not take much space (disk and ram). Once started it takes up 0.8% of my RAM (about 256MB).

Oculus Quest support is currently only semi official. You have to compile the godot_oculus_mobile plugin yourself but that is really easy and in the future it will be available as an asset from the assetlibrary.

As for assets I used, you can import fbx, obj and gltf that should be sufficient enough for most basic things.

Mostly my workflow is to download something from sketchfab or blendswap pepare it in Blender, export it as gltf and import it in Godot.

Or for simpler stuff like the claws or the head cues I just do it in Blender myself.

> Why use Godot vs Unity3D?

To me, in part, it's that all licenses are source licenses. :- )

Also, I'm still having trouble cancelling my Unity billing, they are absolute scumbags and I will never ever do business with them again by choice. I think they rely on people giving up on cancelling billing, and they should be ashamed of themselves whether that effect is intentional or not.

If you absolutely must get a Unity license, I must recommend not getting the license on your account's "default project", because you can not delete it, nor can you simply cancel the license, and contrary to their documentation, you can not switch which one is the default.

> Is it easy to get something running for the Quest?

It is very straightforward.

https://github.com/GodotVR/godot_oculus_mobile