Pokémon Go: 25% of physical activity in more – Mobile Magazine

1.500 more steps per day for those who play Pokémon Go. To say it is a recent study by Microsoft reported in the journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two researchers at Redmond have been able to monitor 3 thousand users of the wristband fitness Microsoft Band. Among these 1.420 you have searched online for information on the game Pokémon Go. By monitoring and then the physical activity of this selection of users, they have noticed an increase in the daily average of about 1,500 steps. Which corresponds to 25% more physical activity.

"The game – explains the researchers Microsoft – increase your activity level for men and women of every age." Is something that other initiatives on the fitness hardly manage to do." And so, given that physical activity is directly related to the prolongation of life, only in the United States, it is estimated, you are 25 million players have guadagnao 2.8 million years of life.

For all details we invite you to visit the web site of the Cornell University Library, where it is made available to the study about the Pokémon Go.