The Perception & Action Podcast - Sports Science & Psychology Talk

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 tra