Research on Virtual World and Real World Integration for Batting Practice

Author

Syamsuddin, Muhammad Rusdi ; Kwon, Yong-Moo

Author_Institution

Imaging Media Center, Korea Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 July 2010

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Utilizing virtual environment technology for sports exercise has been done by several researchers. However, virtual world such as Second Life not yet support for their user to doing real sport exercise. In this paper, we proposed system that enables users to do batting practice in virtual world using real world pitching data from professional pitcher that provided in web. Users can bat practice as if practicing with professional pitcher. Besides, we introduce batting experience representation. With this representation virtual world users can share their practice experience to other people. The purpose is to get more suggestion to improve users batting skill.

Keywords

Internet; sport; virtual reality; Second Life; World Wide Web; batting experience representation; batting practice; real world pitching data integration; sports exercise; virtual environment technology; virtual world; Avatars; Games; Physics; Second Life; Servers; Trajectory; Virtual environment; Virtual world; batting practice; motion capture; virtual and real world integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Gwangju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7702-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4124-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISUVR.2010.21

Filename

5557932