Fitness video games – a new tool for shaping

At first glance, the shelf has nothing to do with video games in the sports shop «The Sports Authority».

However, it is only at first glance. The largest sporting goods store works with Nintendo, selling the popular Wii console and games, because video games are now not only in order to shoot the aliens!

Nintendo last year launched a fitness game «Wii Fit» together with the enclosed balance boards, thereby creating a new genre of games – they not only move the joystick.

Ubisoft developed the game “Your Shape”, in which the digital camera scans the body of the player. Exercise of the game include equipment from real life.

It really moving video games help people lose weight, remains a question. American Council on physical exercise recently published a report in accordance with which such exercises “give a very, very modest results in comparison to the actual prototypes. However, the industry is developing, and in the future, who knows