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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1530948
Sports Training in Virtual Reality with a Focus on Visual Perception: A Systematic Review
Provisionally accepted- Dept. Sport Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
VR offers many opportunities to visually support sports training and motor learning. It has been shown that training in VR based purely on visual perception can be successful in many sports and sports domains. The following visualizsation options are already being used: different viewing perspectives, variation of the demonstrated speed of movement, use of virtual mirrors, visualizsation of the necessary body parts, visual manipulation to identify important stimuli, display of movement trajectories, and graphic aids. In future, more studies should be conducted to compare training under virtual conditions with training under real conditions and to investigate transfer effects. Eye tracking should also be used for this purpose in order to compare visual perception in VR and in reality. Less is known about how VR training can be realized in terms of frequency, duration, and intensity and how VR training can be combined with training in the reality world.
Keywords: virtual reality, sports training, Visual Perception, motor learning, literature review
Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 27 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Witte, Bürger and Pastel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Kerstin Witte, Dept. Sport Science, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, 39104, Germany
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