Skiing, Fast and Slow: Evaluation of Time Distortion for VR Ski Training

Takashi Matsumoto, Erwin Wu, Hideki Koike

Abstract: Virtual reality-based sports simulators are widely developed, which makes training in a virtual environment possible. One of the advantages of virtual training is the customizability and the user can be augmented by extra cues or different physical environments, which is difficult to realize in real training. In this paper, we study the effect of time distortion on alpine ski training to find out how modifying the temporal space can affect sports training. Two different experiments are conducted to investigate how a fast/slow and a static/dynamic time distortion-based training, respectively, can impact the performance of users.