69 – Virtual Environments for Training & Understanding Sports Skills II: Evaluating the Evidence

How effective are VEs for sports training? Have they achieved good fidelity? Can they induce competitive anxiety? Does augmentation help performance? Do they show evidence of transfer of training?   Articles/links: Distance Perception in Real and Virtual Environments Do monocular time-to-collision estimates necessarily involve perceived distance? Motion in depth: Adequate and inadequate simulation Virtual exertions: evoking the sense of exerting forces in virtual reality using gestures and muscle activity A comparison of the upper limb movement kinematics utilized by children playing virtual and real table tennis Comparison of grasping movements made by healthy subjects in a 3-dimensional immersive virtual versus physical environment Real Handball Goalkeeper vs. Virtual Handball Thrower Hitting moving objects. The dependency of hand velocity on the speed of the target. Bending It Like Beckham: How to Visually Fool the Goalkeeper Visuomotor adaptation in head-mounted virtual reality versus conventional training Feasibility of Training Athletes for High-Pressure Situations Using Virtual Reality Visual Perspective and Feedback Guidance for VR Free-Throw Training Virtual Visualization: Preparation for the Olympic Games Long-Track Speed Skating Does a virtual audience influence rowing? Virtual reality and exercise: Behavioral and psychological effects of visual feedback Effect of virtual reality exposure and aural stimuli on eye contact, directional focus, and focus of attention of novice wind band conductors Augmented feedback presented in a virtual environment accelerates learning of a difficult motor task. Transfer of skill from a virtual reality trainer to real juggling Virtual realities as optimal learning environments in sport – A transfer study of virtual and real dart throwing Transfer of Complex Skill Learning from Virtual to Real Rowing   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Pointed Sticks – The Real Thing Superdrag – Nothing Good is Real The Dark Brothers – So Real Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com