Zwift April Fools' 2024 // Virtual Apple Vision Pro!? 🥽🚲

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Be alert but not alarmed this April 1st on Zwift. And be thankful it's not the return of the VHS effect that totally tanked a few years back! 🤣
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@rosvopaisti Місяць тому

Looks like a consumer standard VR face bucket to me, not so much like the silly Apple thing.

@katesmiles4208 Місяць тому

I would have loved zwift to have changed the graphics so players had their arms stretched out horizontally while they made aeroplane noises 🤣

@EvilBambo0 Місяць тому

thanks Shane! good enough motivation for me to get back on the trainer, btw it looks more like an Oculus than Apple vision pro haha

@scottvessey915 Місяць тому

As a DJ on the radio said this morning, there’s nothing less funny than a corporate April Fools’, he must use Zwift…

@gplama Місяць тому

🤣🤣🤣

@JoneRich80 Місяць тому

😂

@toadlguy Місяць тому

Kind of ironic having a company which made bicycling virtual (and isolating) making fun of VR for April Fools day 😅

@BreakawayB Місяць тому

That’s😂hilarious

@dr_delay Місяць тому

At least it wasn't the lease a bike TT helmet 😛- Maybe less aero though?

@grobbosixtyone Місяць тому

They should have added little virtual items when riding in first person. Simply plonking a butt-ugly VR headset on each rider shows little imagination

@sjanzeir Місяць тому

That's like swapping out your car's windshield for a couple of displays with a CCTV feed from cameras in the front bumper.

@jimhansen5395 Місяць тому

Something tells me this headset may have been created with the idea that it could be one of the rewards on the Big Spin wheel, but got nix'd, and subsequently repurposed for April Fools...

@swarmster Місяць тому

The commentary on _virtual_ virtual reality headsets being isolating is interestingly ironic. If and when Zwift supports real virtual reality headsets, and you see people’s avatars look over at gaps they’re steering into, or glance at you as you pass, I’d imagine it would feel dramatically more social!

@gplama Місяць тому

Zwift has supported VR headsets for a while. See my take on it here from Eurobike 2016: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/mWN6jIecjp-klp8.htmlsi=PKkwE1wLoZpNAabE&t=292

@davidfiddling1467 Місяць тому

I fell for it 😂😂

@Outsideville Місяць тому

If you sprint, the virtual VR mask will fill up with virtual sweat.

@psd9850 Місяць тому

All zwift members are getting one in their mailbox this week. ❤

@brianpmack Місяць тому

If a VR headset in the real world is like a portal to a virtual world, is a headset in a virtual world like a portal to the real world?

@neilblackburn3133 Місяць тому

Did Coco also wear the headset? 😂

@gplama Місяць тому

Unfortunately not.

@neilblackburn3133 Місяць тому

😢

@CycleXplorer Місяць тому

Haha, nice one Zwift

@0x1f1f Місяць тому

Oops. I did ride and I didn't notice it ;)

@TreyGruel Місяць тому

If you go first-person view, do you see what the avatar is watching? Do they watch reality on their headsets? Or is it like 80s wire-frame graphics?

@kebabgrobble6628 Місяць тому

Shoulda made everyone go backwards 😂

@zeekryder7735 Місяць тому

then you would lose mileage

@LeelooMinai Місяць тому

If you put a VR headset on, you emerge in the virtual world, so, if you put it on in the virtual world, you should emerge back in the real world, right... hmm, well, never mind...

@jamesmckenzie3532 Місяць тому

Wonder what Garmin is coming up with? Will be fun to see this on the Big Spin.

@jamesmckenzie3532 Місяць тому

Did the Big Spin and was so disappointed that I didn't have the goggles. Others said they did though.

@beyond990 Місяць тому

Taking the headset off did not stop the headset effects they were running at the same time which you did not cover. Some of them flickered a lot and were not good for any one with epilepsy, I don't mind having the fun stuff but they really do need a way to disable if you need or want to.

@galenkehler Місяць тому

But does it make you more aero??? 😂

@griffithd05 Місяць тому

BRING BACK THE BIG WHEELS

@poincareconjecture5651 Місяць тому

I enjoy stages visuals so much better and it's old school

@futureofinsurance Місяць тому

How about the glitch in rendering that meant many of us saw these giant headsets moving around a rider’s head, and often strobing or blocking the entire screen so you couldn’t see. This ruined my ride today. Too buggy!

@gplama Місяць тому

Not something I encountered. Looks like they've switched this off for everything except PC/Mac.

@futureofinsurance Місяць тому

Thanks for the info. Others were mentioning it in the chat, so I know I wasn’t the only one. I was on Apple TV (and latest version of the app)

@robertcowling4313 29 днів тому

AND they crashed the app! Zwift had to remove the Easter Egg, and things worked back to normal. (BTW: Doesn't it look more like the Zuckerberg hot mess?)

@peterknight1245 Місяць тому

Were the random headsets flying around (including some enormous ones) intentional? Getting your view point stuck in one was annoying and they were flickering around all over the place.

@dh7314 Місяць тому

I had this, the whole group had a massive floating headset. I couldn’t see the road. I had to leave the group