An adaptive AI-based virtual reality sports system for adolescents with excess body weight: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents with obesity face numerous health risks and encounter barriers that lead to physical inactivity. We developed a virtual reality sports system, named REVERIE (Real-World Exercise and VR-Based Exercise Research in Education), which used deep reinforcement learning to train transformer-based virtual coaching agents, offering immersive and effective sports guidance, with biomechanical performance comparable to real-world physical sports. We integrated REVERIE into a randomized controlled trial involving an 8-week intervention in adolescents with excess body weight (n = 227). Participants were randomized (1:1:1:1:1) to physical table tennis, physical soccer, REVERIE table tennis, REVERIE soccer or control. REVERIE sports intervention was effective in reducing primary outcome fat mas

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12283417 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature