Development of a Motion System for an Advanced Sailing Simulator

Mulder, Fabian A.; Verlinden, Jouke

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2013.07.030

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“…The research goal was to identify the factors that contributed to the participants' sense of presence in the virtual environment. The results illustrated the users' ability to rotate around the front-to-back axis and side-to-side axis as an indication of presence in the virtual environment [30]. The use of accurate models, flexibility over traditional practices, and analyzing decision makes VR an attractive asset to sports.…”

Section: Vr In Sportsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Comparison of a Virtual Game-Day Experience on Varying Devices

Baiotto¹,

MacAllister²,

Hoover³

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Collegiate athletics, particularly football, provide tremendous value to schools through branding, revenue, and publicity. As a result, extensive effort is put into recruiting talented students. When recruiting, home games are exceptional tools used to show a school's unique game-day atmosphere. However, this is not a viable option during the offseason or for off-site visits. This paper explores a solution to these challenges by using virtual reality (VR) to recreate the game-day experience. The Virtual Reality Application Center in conjunction with Iowa State University (ISU) athletics, created a VR application mimicking the game-day experience at ISU. This application was displayed using the world's highest resolution six-sided CAVETM, an Oculus Rift DK2 computer-driven head mounted display (HMD) and a Merge VR smart phone-driven HMD. A between-subjects user study compared presence between the different systems and a video control. In total, 82 students participated, indicating their presence using the Witmer and Singer questionnaire. Results revealed that while the CAVETM scored the highest in presence, the Oculus and Merge only experienced a slight drop compared to the CAVETM. This result suggests that the mobile ultra-low-cost Merge is a viable alternative to the CAVE TM and Oculus for delivering the game-day experience to ISU recruits.

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Section: Vr In Sportsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Comparison of a Virtual Game-Day Experience on Varying Devices

Baiotto¹,

MacAllister²,

Hoover³

et al. 2017

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“…While VR environments have their shortcomings the potential they provide to enhance the training and sporting experience is promising. Previous research has been done on how VR can help improve skills and provide athletes with a feel for a particular scenario 29,30,31,32,33,34 .…”

Section: Vr In Sportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Game-day football visualization experience on dissimilar virtual reality platforms

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College football recruiting is a competitive process. Athletic administrations attempt to gain an edge by bringing recruits to a home game, highlighting the atmosphere unique to campus. This is however not always possible since most recruiting efforts happen off-season. So, they relate the football game experience through video recordings and visits to football facilities. While these substitutes provide a general idea of a game, they cannot capture the feeling of playing while cheered on by a crowd of 55,000 people. To address this challenge and improve the recruitment process, the Iowa State University (ISU) athletic department and the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) teamed up to build an alternative to the game-day experience using the world's highest resolution six-sided virtual reality (VR) environment -the C6, and a portable low-cost headmounted display (HMD) system. This paper presents techniques used in the development of the immersive and portable VR environments followed by validation of the work through quantifying immersion and presence through a formal user study. Results from the user study indicate that both the HMD and C6 are an improvement over the standard practice of showing videos to convey the atmosphere of an ISU Cyclone football game. In addition, both the C6 and HMD were scored similar in immersion and presence categories. This indicates that the low-cost portable HMD version of the application produces minimal trade off in experience for a fraction of the cost. RightsCopyright 2015 SPIE-IS&T. One print of electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic electronic or print reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. ABSTRACTCollege football recruiting is a competitive process. Athletic administrations attempt to gain an edge by bringing recruits to a home game, highlighting the atmosphere unique to campus. This is however not always possible since most recruiting efforts happen off-season. So, they relate the football game experience through video recordings and visits to football facilities. While these substitutes provide a general idea of a game, they cannot capture the feeling of playing while cheered on by a crowd of 55,000 people. To address this challenge and improve the recruitment process, the Iowa State University (ISU) athletic department and the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) teamed up to build an alternative to the game-day experience using the world's highest resolution six-sided virtual reality (VR) environmentthe C6, and a portable low-cost head-mounted display (HMD) system. This paper presents techniques used in the development of the immersive and portable VR environments followed by validation of the work through quantifying immersion and presence through a formal user study. Results from the user study indicate that both the HMD and C6 are an improvement over the standard practice of showing videos...

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“…Further work regarding the effect of motion on presence for a sailing simulator was performed by Mulder and Verlinden in [117] and [116]. They developed a system with a dinghy hull mounted on top of a Stewart platform 1 with the visualisation system mounted outside the platform.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors consider that heave motion can almost be negated, showing that for advanced athletes it is more important to use detailed graphics with a large field of view. Based on the past experience, the same authors developed a motion system for a sailing simulator in [116] focusing only on roll movement and mainsheet and rudder advanced force feedback. One more layer is added in [180] with the study of the effect in presence of using an array of fans simulating the wind.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Following a different path than the one presented in [117] and [116], Avizzano et al [5] created a sailing simulator with a Stewart platform on top of which they built a yacht cockpit mock-up and a visual system. Instead of reproducing the actual motion, they chose to reproduce boat accelerations filtered by a washout algorithm as applied in the commercial aircraft simulators.…”

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Design of a physical and interactive real-time Simulator based on a dynamic VPP as a support tool for sailing yacht design and operation

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Development of a Motion System for an Advanced Sailing Simulator

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