Problem
When you launch the VirZOOM game on your PC or console, it connects to the first active but unconnected VirZOOM bike it finds. This decision was made to be convenient for the average user: Dongles aren't preprogrammed for specific bikes, so it's cheap to get a replacement if a dongle is lost or broken. Turning on multiple bikes at once in a single place, however, can therefore lead to some confusion about which PC/PS4 each bike is connected to.
Solution
If you want multiple VirZOOM bikes and games in a room (because you are lucky enough to have multiple computers and VR systems to play them, or have talked your office manager into the health benefits of VirZOOM at lunch), you need to be a bit more careful about powering them on to make sure that bikes connect to computers in the order you expect. To do that:
- Start up one game, then power up one bike until it connects and you see the L+R start screen
- Start up the second game, then power up the second bike until it connects
- And so on
If a bike goes to sleep and reawakens, don't worry: It will always reconnect with the game it started out with. If a game starts out with a bike you didn't want it to, however, this means you'll need to restart that game.
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