Healthy Gaming » Carnegie Mellon University http://www.healthygaming.com/blog News on health and exercise related video games. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Carnegie Mellon’s ETC developing new genre of calorie burning video games http://www.healthygaming.com/blog/news/carnegie-mellons-etc-developing-new-genre-of-calorie-burning-video-games/ http://www.healthygaming.com/blog/news/carnegie-mellons-etc-developing-new-genre-of-calorie-burning-video-games/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:02:49 +0000 Chris http://www.healthygaming.com/blog/2008/09/04/carnegie-mellons-etc-developing-new-genre-of-calorie-burning-video-games/
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    From popcitymedia.com:

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    “A new video game that really burns calories while you play?

    That’s the idea behind a Carnegie Mellon University graduate research project that combines the best of two highly popular games to get kids burning energy, not just tapping and waving. “Winds of Orbis” is an interactive video game that combines a “Dance Dance Revolution” floorpad and a Wii remote to help children get in shape.”

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