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This is what it'll take to make esports a real Olympic event

With the advent of the Esports Olympic Games, the IOC has a chance to push the envelope even further.

But players quickly found out that apps like Beat Saber, which features plenty of similar mechanics to Supernatural, offer on-demand song variety and vigorous, physically demanding gameplay that also gives them a workout. In fact, just a year prior, Valve had to update SteamVR's movement tracking code because gamers were moving faster while playing Beat Saber than was previously thought physically possible. Android Central's Michael Hicks recently explored the idea of trying to "compete" with Olympics athletes in some track and field events and found the task to be hilariously impossible.

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