Xbox Fitness confirmed with new trailer

First details of Microsoft's proposed Xbox Fitness subscription leaked yesterday. The company later confirmed the program, with a brand new trailer...

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First details of Microsoft's proposed Xbox Fitness subscription leaked yesterday. The company later confirmed the program, with a brand new trailer showing exactly how celebrity trainers will yell at you.

Coming exclusively to Xbox One this holiday season, Xbox Fitness will give instant access to videos from P90X, Insanity, Jillian Michaels, Tracy Anderson, and more. The program will be free for all Xbox Live Gold members until December 2014. Afterwards, a separate Fitness subscription will be required (in addition to Xbox Live Gold).

Using the upgraded Kinect for Xbox One, Fitness will supposedly "track the quality of your performance," a key feature that Insanity's Shaun T recommends. "What makes Xbox Fitness so innovative is the feedback it gives you. The Kinect sensor can evaluate your form, tell how high you’re jumping, how hard you're punching and even read your heart rate," he said in the announcement. "It's that little missing piece of validation that hasn't been possible for home fitness products before. Xbox Fitness completes the puzzle."

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    September 27, 2013 9:00 AM

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      September 27, 2013 9:21 AM

      If it's true that the new camera won't need as much space to work I could really see this be something for the platform.

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        September 27, 2013 9:24 AM

        They should also add in a kids/teen series as well. That way they can sell this as a total family fitness solution. Much easier of a sell for the price point like that.

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      September 27, 2013 10:41 AM

      what? No DDP Yoga?

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        September 27, 2013 10:42 AM

        I'm awaiting the Jake the Snake DDT Kinect integration.

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      September 27, 2013 10:55 AM

      I've been using video games as my main workout for about 4 years now, and I'm not really seeing anything in that trailer that surpasses what's available now. Better tracking would be great, but I don't give a shit about which "famous trainer" is on the screen or any extra sauce crap like that. In fact, bells and whistles are one of the problems with the current crop of games. They spend too much time loading and showing fancy animations between reps, for example.

      Fuck, I wish a developer would come along and really nail this stuff. The Kinect has the potential to be such an awesome work tool.

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      September 27, 2013 11:42 PM

      Can you move the camera around and zoom anywhere ??

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      September 28, 2013 3:01 AM

      Microsoft knows you're fat.

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