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Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (560) Games and Gamification for Health (650) Innovations and Technology for Physical Activity Education (742) Exergames, Active Games and Gamification of Physical Activity (180) Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in XR and Spatial Computing (12)

Published on in Vol 21, No 9 (2019): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/13833, first published .
What Players of Virtual Reality Exercise Games Want: Thematic Analysis of Web-Based Reviews

What Players of Virtual Reality Exercise Games Want: Thematic Analysis of Web-Based Reviews

What Players of Virtual Reality Exercise Games Want: Thematic Analysis of Web-Based Reviews

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Nuša Farič1 Author Orcid Image ;   Henry W W Potts2 Author Orcid Image ;   Adrian Hon3 Author Orcid Image ;   Lee Smith4 Author Orcid Image ;   Katie Newby5 Author Orcid Image ;   Andrew Steptoe2 Author Orcid Image ;   Abi Fisher1 Author Orcid Image
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