Effects of an Immersive Virtual Reality–Based Exercise Intervention on Psychological and Physiological Outcomes in College Students: Randomized Controlled Trial
Wenxi Liu, Daniel J McDonough, John Oginni, Jessh Mavoungou, Zan Gao, Andrew Coristine, Byron Lai, Anat V Lubetzky, Massimo Tusconi · 2025
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Wenxi Liu and co-authors trialed virtual reality cycling for college students in a 2025 study. Students move too little, squeezed by study loads and new habits. Headset cycling games may pull them in where plain gym plans fail, but proof of mind and body gains was thin, so the team ran a controlled trial.
Thirty six students were split by chance into a headset cycling group or a no change group. The cyclists rode twice a week for an hour across four weeks. Before and after, the team read drive to exercise, mood, low mood signs, heart fitness by a step test, and body mix by electric scan. The paper sets out the full design and its early reads.
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| CREATOR | Wenxi Liu, Daniel J McDonough, John Oginni, Jessh Mavoungou, Zan Gao, Andrew Coristine, Byron Lai, Anat V Lubetzky, Massimo Tusconi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |