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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@katesmiles4208 29 днів тому

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

@rosvopaisti 29 днів тому

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

@scottvessey915 29 днів 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 29 днів тому

🤣🤣🤣

@JoneRich80 28 днів тому

😂

@EvilBambo0 29 днів 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

@toadlguy 29 днів тому

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

@BreakawayB 28 днів тому

That’s😂hilarious

@dr_delay 28 днів тому

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

@Outsideville 29 днів тому

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

@psd9850 29 днів тому

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

@jimhansen5395 29 днів 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 29 днів 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 29 днів 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

@sjanzeir 29 днів 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.

@brianpmack 29 днів 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?

@grobbosixtyone 29 днів 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

@davidfiddling1467 29 днів тому

I fell for it 😂😂

@0x1f1f 29 днів тому

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

@neilblackburn3133 29 днів тому

Did Coco also wear the headset? 😂

@gplama 29 днів тому

Unfortunately not.

@neilblackburn3133 29 днів тому

😢

@CycleXplorer 29 днів тому

Haha, nice one Zwift

@kebabgrobble6628 29 днів тому

Shoulda made everyone go backwards 😂

@zeekryder7735 28 днів тому

then you would lose mileage

@TreyGruel 29 днів 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?

@LeelooMinai 28 днів 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...

@galenkehler 29 днів тому

But does it make you more aero??? 😂

@griffithd05 29 днів тому

BRING BACK THE BIG WHEELS

@beyond990 29 днів 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.

@jamesmckenzie3532 29 днів тому

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

@jamesmckenzie3532 29 днів тому

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

@poincareconjecture5651 29 днів тому

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

@futureofinsurance 29 днів 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 29 днів тому

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

@futureofinsurance 29 днів 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)

@peterknight1245 29 днів 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 29 днів тому

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

@robertcowling4313 24 дні 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?)