A Review of Gamification in Virtual Reality (VR) Sport

Abstract

PURPOSE: To identify the main findings from research on gamified virtual reality in sport METHODS: The digital databases for this review were searched and visited on 19 May 2019. Gamification AND ("virtual reality" OR sports fitness) were used as a search string or keyword in the paper selection. RESULTS: Thirty -three papers were found after the preliminary searches to narrow down the selections that align with the goals of this study. The selected papers were examined to investigate the characteristics of gamification in a broad context of sports. These findings suggest that the use of gamification methods help physical exercise in the immersive VR setting. CONCLUSION: Through the outcomes of user experience, it can prove that gamification components are boosting the pleasure of the user throughout the physical activity and provide a set of rules to encourage the athlete or user to perform better. Besides, generality of impacts with VR and gamification in sports has been discussed in this paper by listing the advantages and limitations. However, findings need more varied populations, particularly elements, athletes, kids, and older people.

The applicability of advanced technologies from the traditional industry to mitigate ergonomic problems in maintenance activities in the mining industry

“…, 2018), virtual reality/augmented reality (Qian et al. , 2018) and gamification (Nor et al. , 2020; Olszewski et al.…”

“…, 2020) or the simulation of the maintenance process contributing to the training of professionals (Guo et al. , 2020; Nor et al. , 2020; Paravizo and Braatz, 2019; Olszewski et al.…”

“…On the other hand, Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies present several innovations applicable to the maintenance sector. However, many of these innovations are aimed at predicting failures (Chen et al, 2021), maintenance management through data manipulation to aid decision-making (Arena et al, 2022;Nota et al, 2021;Tortorella et al, 2021;Bolis et al, 2020) or the simulation of the maintenance process contributing to the training of professionals (Guo et al, 2020;Nor et al, 2020;Paravizo and Braatz, 2019;Olszewski et al, 2018;Qian et al, 2018). It is observed that these technologies do not directly contribute to the performance of maintenance tasks since they act at the information management level.…”

Benefits from incorporating virtual reality in pulmonary rehabilitation of COPD patients. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

“…It derives from video games, as it embodies many of their elements, but differs from them as it does not have an exclusive entertainment purpose (Lavoue et al 2019). It has been established that gami cation is a method that helps the user to nd motivation and practice it (Nor et al 2020) through interactive techniques (Nedel et al 2016). The combination of exercise and fun, is crucial for a COPD patient, as endurance exercise is a major part of their rehabilitation in a lifelong program, which aims to prevent the condition from worsening (Rutkowski at al.…”

A Comparison of Pathfinding Algorithm for Code Optimization on Grid Maps

“…Pathfinding algorithm has become one of the popular techniques to search for a path while avoiding obstacles at the same time. There have been numerous applications of pathfinding such as robotics, virtual reality [1], and commercial games [2]. In the past, pathfinding has traditionally focused on finding the shortest route.…”