Virtual Rides 2$ Serial Number
Kenneth Calimlim
Thanks to all who have replied and commented on this topic. As previously mentioned, Virtual Ride/Run activity types are reserved for activities which contain GPS, distance, elevation, and time data from a simulated (virtual) route. The activity must be originally recorded as a virtual activity using a supported virtual trainer or treadmill.
We understand that a number of you have used the virtual activity type in the past to keep your indoor ride statistics separate from outdoor rides. You may be interested in this idea which was submitted as a feature suggestion on our Ideas Board. We encourage you to add any additional comments and votes/kudos to it.
Each one of you has valuable feedback on how to improve Strava. We love hearing from you and will do what we can to surface hot topics and trends to our product teams. Thanks for your continued feedback and input.
This is understandable but leaves out spin classes for me with heart rate monitor data.
I can either enter the ride manually as virtual ride without HRM data or record the class as a ride to pick up the HRM.
Along with others here, I am considering not renewing my Strava. The overwhelming response to this change - in multiple threads - should tell you to listen to your paying customers.
PLEASE don't try to justify the change - do something positive about it.
Am I missing something? Until very recently, I had a "virtual biking" Strava biking type option, like gravel or mountain (which are excellent options). The app is still linked to my Wahoo account and smart trainer - and records rides - but the option to chose a "virtual ride" as type has disappeared. Last year, I could make my trainer the default bike in the winter. But a recent app uptake wiped away that option. Could you clarify what why we can no longer chose virtual rides as types and how we can change the default bike (because this too is no longer obvious)?
Sad that the majority of us seem to be using virtual ride for our indoor bikes on trainers (dumb or smart). And now there's no option for that. This is really not a good solution. To remove something that people use regularly and offer no solution.
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Introduction: Medical literature is scarce on information to define a basic skills training program for laparoscopic surgery (peg and transferring, cutting, clipping). The aim of this study was to determine the minimal number of simulator sessions of basic laparoscopic tasks necessary to elaborate an optimal virtual reality training curriculum.
Materials and methods: Eleven medical students with no previous laparoscopic experience were spontaneously enrolled. They were submitted to simulator training sessions starting at level 1 (Immersion Lap VR, San Jose, CA), including sequentially camera handling, peg and transfer, clipping and cutting. Each student trained twice a week until 10 sessions were completed. The score indexes were registered and analyzed. The total of errors of the evaluation sequences (camera, peg and transfer, clipping and cutting) were computed and thereafter, they were correlated to the total of items evaluated in each step, resulting in a success percent ratio for each student for each set of each completed session. Thereafter, we computed the cumulative success rate in 10 sessions, obtaining an analysis of the learning process. By non-linear regression the learning curve was analyzed.
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