VR Rower

In case you own a rowing fitness machine with bluetooth capabilities (FTMS) + VR headset, you may be interested in this project.

This VR-app connects to your rowing machine and frequently receives training data.
The training data is then used in the VR rowing simulation enabling training in a 3D simulation.

The project is in an early development stage and I am currently the only user. It works well for me and I frequently use it for my training. If you encounter any issues, feel free to reach out - I would be interested if there is other dry-rowing people with VR headsets our there.

Key features:

• Bluetooth connectivity (rowing machine, hear rate device)
• Several VR environments
• Display realtime training data
• Training History

Upcoming features: vr-rower | Trello

Starting:

Actually two apps need to be started.

• Rower.exe 
• BTRower.exe 

Rower.exe  is the VR application written in Godot, it works on its own, but will not receive any bluetooth data.

Therefore BTRower.exe needs to be started. This app, written in Go, will handle bluetooth connectivity.

In the rower app there's a green "server" LED, it will be green if Rower.exe can communicate with BTRower.exe.
One this is done, you can go ahead and connect your rowing device, keep in mind the rowing device might only turn on if you pull.

This needs and will be simplified in the near future when Meta Quest 2 will be tested: https://trello.com/c/DZxjFtsb