Xbox 360 Kinect - Your Shape Fitness Evolved

Introducing Your Shape™: Fitness Evolved, a revolutionary fitness game for Kinect on Xbox 360®. Your Shape’s proprietary Player Projection technology puts your body into the game for the ultimate experience. You’ll control the game intuitively with your voice and body as you create your desired fitness experience. Choose a personal trainer to help you meet your specific fitness goals, take a Yoga or Martial Arts class, or play fun, family-friendly mini-games. As you exercise, you’ll receive specific feedback on your every move, thanks to the game's real-time precise tracking system. Plus, as you exercise, you’ll interact with captivating visual effects that respond to your movement and impact. Get ready to experience the evolution of fitness gaming! 

Exergaming Benefits by Stephen Yang at ExerGame Lab

• "Gets You in the Game" is a statement we've been using for a long time and it's good to see it throughout the press releases.
• A surprisingly strong Facebook community of 36,000 + seems like it has a good start on the maximizing the group's ability to support one another.
• Great visual effects and interaction and player tracking.
• Lots of great feedback (formative, summative, instant).
• Hundreds of exercises and supposedly never giving you the same workout.

 Exergaming Concerns by Stephen Yang ExerGame Lab

• As I have found in my research and that of others, perceived exertion is proving to be a tricky metric as people are under-reporting their levels of perceived exertion. This can lead to exhaustion and/or repeated overuse injuries.
• Although Your Shape: Fitness Evolved has evolved from the Wii version, I still don't like the computer generated "image" when compared to the your actual video like onEyeToy Kinetic (my gold standard for fitness video game).
• If it never gives you the same workout twice, what happens if you really connect with a particular workout and want to repeat it? Is there the option to put it back into rotation?
• With all the feedback coming from the program, will the user be able to customize the amount, delivery rate and or type (audio, visual)?
• Will players with movement disabilities be able to use the this system after calibrating for range of motion?
• Will we be able to move the camera closer so those with limited ROM can still "Be in the game"?
• Will the online support community run into similar litigation issues as EA SPORTS Active (featured earlier)
• Did the designers consult with exercise physiologists, strength training professionals, and personal trainers? 
• Did they build in features that emphasize: the different elements of training cycles (micro, macro, meso), energy systems (aerobic, anaerobic, lactic, alactic), tapering an cycling, nutritional demands coordinating with each specific cycle and system? 
• As is the case with many of the fitness "games", there does not appear to be any real game element in terms of story, plot, or narrative. In essence these titles should be "efitness instruction" or "efitness guides".
• The demo got me a little confused as it was the mirror image of what we were watching on stage.