A multi-scale analysis of basketball throw in virtual reality for tracking perceptual-motor expertise.

ABSTRACT: To benefit from virtual reality (VR) as a complementary tool for training, coaches must determine the proper tools and variables for tracking sports performance. We explored the basketball shooting at several scales (basket-ball, ball-player, and player systems) by monitoring success-rate, and ball and body kinematics. We measured how these scales of analysis allowed tracking players' expertise and perceptual sensitivity to basket distance. Experienced and novice players were instructed to naturally throw and swish an instrumented ball in a stereoscopically rendered virtual basket. We challenged their perceptual-motor systems by manipulating the distance of the virtual basket while keeping the surrounding environment unchanged. The success-rate accounted for the players' shooting adjustmen

SUBMITTER: Soltani P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100508 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature