The Works With Fitbit ecosystem just got two pieces bigger today, as Fitbit announced that it will now support Habit’s nutrition service as well as the Peloton bike.
Fitbit already sells some of the top fitness trackers on the market, but the industry is quickly becoming over-saturated. In an attempt to compete, Fitbit has continued to grow its “Works With Fitbit” ecosystem. Today’s news – announced at CES – is one of many partnerships announced by the company over the past year.
Other key partners for Fitbit include a skill for Amazon Echo along with an NBA 2K17 partnership.
How Will Habit Integrate with Fitbit?
Habit is a diet and meal planning service. Thanks to this new partnership with Fitbit, Habit will take data gathered from Fitbit devices to give you up-to-date food recommendations and nutritional plans.
Let’s say you want to lose 10 pounds. Habit knows that you want to lose 10 pounds. It looks at your day’s Fitbit data and finds you haven’t been as active as you need to be to lose 10 pounds, so Habit adjusts your dietary intake accordingly.
Habit will take into account measurements like your weight, body fat percentage, and calories burned to create up-to-date meal plans that meet your nutritional needs.
What About Peloton?
Peloton is a stationary bike that comes with live streaming video classes. Now, with Fitbit integration, Peloton will let users track their progress on the bike with their wearable.
Essentially, Fitbit will look at data collected from your Peloton bike during a workout, then will add that to your daily activity total. You’ll be able to view Peloton data from your Fitbit app, including a full post-workout breakdown.
One More Partnership
Fitbit announced one more partnership at CES with a stationary indoor virtual reality bike called VirZOOM. The bike works like a standard stationary bike, but comes with VR support. You wear a VR headset as you pedal, fully integrating yourself in whatever virtual world you want to be in. You can ride a horse, for example, and the faster you pedal, the faster your horse will go.
A similar mini-game exists for driving a tank, or even a Pegasus (yes, you can pilot a flying horse in virtual reality).
Whatever you’re driving with VirZOOM, you’ll be able to track your activity with Fitbit thanks to the new partnership.
All three of the above partnerships will be featured at CES this week. Fitbit announced the news in a press release here.
