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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta - Engadget

Leanne Pedante discusses why she’s excited about this next phase of Supernatural. It's rare for tech companies to get a second chance at life, but that's the story of the VR exercise platform Supernatural. After Meta announced that it was cutting the company's staff and pausing new content for the exercise app in January Supernatural made the surprising revelation that it will be relaunching later this year as an independent company. While it's getting a bit more expensive — back to its original launch pricing of $20 a month or $200 a year — that probably won't deter the company's superfans, many of whom were heartbroken about the app's potential shutdown. So what's next for Supernatural? Leanne Pedante, one of Supernatural's founding coaches and its current Head of Fitness, says the company is currently working on bringing back everything its existing users love with its reboot. "We have a library of over 3,000 workouts that we've built over the years — all of that comes back," she said in an interview on the Engadget Podcast. "The same coaches, the same beautiful environments. We're working on our music negotiations right now. We'll also start releasing new content, which hasn't

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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta - Engadget

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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta - Engadget

Leanne Pedante discusses why she’s excited about this next phase of Supernatural. It's rare for tech companies to get a second chance at life, but that's the story of the VR exercise platform Supernatural. After Meta…

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