About

I recently bought a rowing machine to bring myself back some other shape. When I found the machine has an integrated bluetooth device I was hooked since I already own a VR headset. Doing training in a room is ok to do, but how would it be if “my boat” was “really” moving?!

Getting started

I spent a few weekends to understand the details, make the connections and wire things up.

The following questions needed to besolved:

• How does bluetooth work?
• How do I connect to my device?
• How do I integrate this into unity?
• Where is my previous VR project I did in Unity?
• How to adapt the training data into movement?
• How do I UI interaction in VR without controllers?
• How to integrate multiple ambients?
• Where do I find awesome 3D landscapes?
• How to make a nice water shader?

State

There were a few iterations on those questions, but as always with more iterations the product got more into shape. There’s still more to discover and to learn.

Even if the software as a whole is still in an early stage I decided to put it online. I use the state of the software for quite some time now and find it is useful.