In a recent blog postMeta explains how to track your meta quest stats from virtual reality to your smartphone. A new feature available on the Move app, Meta Quest’s built-in fitness tracker, which allows data synchronization with Apple’s Oculus and Health mobile app.
Meta Quest statistics now available on the Apple Health app
The real novelty was announced last night by Apple during WWDC 2022. It is now possible to follow your statistics from a native Apple application: Health (or Apple Health in English). Note that you don’t have to own an Apple Watch to track your exercise data in virtual reality. An iPhone is enough. Thanks to Move, an app available on the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 headsets in the headset’s applications menu, your statistics are automatically switched to the Oculus or Health app, an app developed by Apple.
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Before you can track your stats, you’ll need to set your goals from this app. With this new feature, you will be able to track multiple stats and in particular the number of calories burned or your heart rate. This data will be end-to-end encrypted and stored on Meta’s servers. To sync your virtual reality headset with Apple Health, you will simply need to allow Active Energy and Workouts from Move and change your permissions for the Health app by going to your iPhone settings > Health > Data & Device Access > Oculus.
Thus, you will be able to find all the statistics of your activities, carried out in virtual reality or in real life. A small novelty which is important and which could encourage new uses, for whom the “statistics” brick was missing, get started in virtual reality. In its blog post, Meta clarifies that this new feature is gradually being rolled out and that if you don’t see it right away “Don’t worry, it won’t be long”.
Apple, closer to health data
Over the years, Apple is turning more and more to the field of health. Last year, a report from the wall street journal even revealed that the Apple brand had almost launched a subscription health service. A project which is currently on hold but which once again demonstrates the interest of the American giant for this field. An application called HealthHabit should have seen the light of day. If it had existed, this app would have aimed to connect subscribers with doctors through a chat.