OK, enough with the promotional speech. Yourself! Fitness is a PC, XboX and PS2 simulation exercise program developed by Respondesign in Portland, Oregon at 5th of March 2005. This program is suitable for all age and comes with many languages which allow users around the world to use it to exercise in their own room. The program contain highly detail model of the environment and background like gym, garden or the zen shrine and very realistic model of a pretty virtual fitness assistant "Maya". Anytime when a user feel like exercising like after awaken from good night sleep or during the evening, the user can just turn on their console and play the program. Yourself! Fitness is a first step for this type of program because a few years later a similar exercise program like the Eye Toy: Kinetic for the PS2 and WII Fit for WII which both uses motion sensor technology to detect the user movement which allow the console to tell the user whether they did it right or wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJFNL8a9qPM&feature=related
To me, I find this program user friendly, convenient, beautifully design and cheap, but I also find it kind of encouraging people to stay home more often. However, most importantly, this is a mark of the advancement of technology which allow consumers to do same thing but with different experience and I believe that many other activity will be replace by all sorts of different devices and provide different experiences for users.
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