Virtual reality as a tool for physical training

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) technology has evolved to become one of the significant parts of education, healthcare, entertainment, engineering, and much more that allows users to explore, learn, design and interact with 3D objects in real-time. The combination of computer hardware, mobile computing, and virtual reality can simulate the real world dynamically. This dynamic behavior can create such scenarios where a user can dynamically interact with the real world using different forms such as voice, actions or body movement. These interactions can create a real-time communication between people and the VR. Due to this interactive nature of VR, it can be applied in any physical activity, e.g., military, sports, construction, etc. This paper contains experiments and survey results of a VR application developed for physical training, i.e., walking, running and jogging with an accuracy of 81.23% and 83.36% for non-technical and technical users respectively. The objective of this paper motivates the use of emerging technologies in competitive physical training especially in military forces training to advance our country's military to be physically trained using virtual environment by encouraging them to challenge themselves.