How VR is Revolutionizing The Fitness Industry | Interview With Black Box VR Cofounder & CEO, Ryan DeLuca

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Ryan DeLuca, CEO and Co-Founder at Black Box VR, talks about how his experience creating bodybuilding.com informed his approach in launching the world’s first virtual reality gym experience, as well as why the combination of video games and fitness can drastically improve people’s habits. DeLuca and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, share their thoughts on a wide range of subjects including the biggest secret for fitness success, the biggest challenges that come with being a solopreneur, and how to reinforce your company’s mission. The pair also chat about the best ways to get people to try a novel product or service for themselves. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a screen, it has lights and colors and pixels and sounds,
0:03.4	and that gets you just as addicted as a drug.
0:06.1	And so we say that's a very powerful thing.
0:08.2	If we could put that together with fitness habits,
0:11.1	you could create something really great.
0:12.7	This is the Playbook.
0:15.5	Hey, this is David Belzer here with the Playbook.
0:18.6	We are at the Blue Eyre Studios here in the lobby of the win.
0:21.8	We are so excited to be partnered with them.
0:24.6	This is probably the best podcast studio that I've been in,
0:28.3	and I'm so blessed to be a part of it.
0:29.8	So I want to thank Blue Eyre.
0:30.9	But more important from the blue box to the black box,
0:34.5	we have the CEO, the co-founder, or founder, no co-founder.
0:38.6	I'm right.
0:39.4	We have the CEO and co-founder of Black Box VR,
0:43.2	and he was also the founder of the small company
0:46.4	called BodyBuilding.com.
0:48.6	And it's so funny, Ryan Deluca.
0:52.3	It's so funny when I tell people about BodyBuilding.com,
0:56.7	instead of thinking, and I know what a huge success it was,
1:00.2	and what a great accent it was,
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