Training and Movement Science: new publication
Lorenz Assländer and Stephan Streuber (Informatics Department) published a manuscript on "Virtual reality as a tool for balance research: Eyes open body sway is reproduced in photo-realistic, but not in abstract virtual scenes"
The manuscript describes an interdisciplinary study between virtual reality and human postural control research. In the study, we show that balance behaviour in real and virtual environments is similar, if the virtual scene is photo-realistic. This finding contrasts several older studies that found considerable differences in virtual environments as compared to the real world. The difference is easily explained by the considerable improvements in VR technology in the last decade. Thus, our study provides an update of earlier studies, but this time showing that VR technology has evolved to a point where it can be used as a tool to study human balance.
Assländer, L., & Streuber, S. (2020). Virtual reality as a tool for balance research: Eyes open body sway is reproduced in photo-realistic, but not in abstract virtual scenes. Plos one, 15(10), e0241479. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241479