Meta’s mixed reality fitness concept was just invented by someone else

What do you want to know

• Alo Moves creates a mixed reality yoga app for Meta Quest 3.
• It is the first mixed reality app that uses volumetric coaches for fully immersive at-home yoga sessions.
• Alo Moves is an on-demand online yoga platform and the app will also include the full suite of 2D classes.

People may remember when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the virtual stage in 2021 and launched the Metaverse. During the unveiling, one of the key examples was a vision of at-home workouts with real coaches who can be virtually placed in your home, lending the authenticity and personality that these platforms currently lack.

Surprisingly, Meta won’t be the company that actually invents this, even though it ushered in the vision. Instead, that honor will go to Alo Moves, an on-demand “movement and mindfulness” online platform that is currently creating a new high-tech mixed reality app for Meta Quest 3, co-developed with the Oscar-winning visual effects studio, Magnopus.

The Alo Moves Quest 3 app will allow home yoga enthusiasts to virtually see a life-size instructor in their own home, recreated in realistic three-dimensional space using a unique volumetric capture method. This will allow players to not only move around the trainer as they would in real life, but also use the power of mixed reality and “shrink” the trainer so that it can be placed n anywhere in the room for easy reference during movement and mindfulness sessions.

The concept is very similar to what we saw during Zuckerberg’s initial unveiling of Metaverse concepts, which would provide the tools for people to experience virtual activities in a way that feels more like an in-person event.

Alo Moves will offer regular five to twenty-four minute classes with real instructors similar to Supernatural, one of the best Meta Quest 3 exercise apps, but the main difference is that the trainer will be in your home rather than in a virtual environment. This ensures that people feel comfortable and safe since they can see their surroundings while still being able to concentrate on training.

Alo Moves XR is currently listed as upcoming and may be added to wishlist on Meta Horizon store.