Terrain Synthesis for Treadmill Exergaming in Virtual Reality

In order to connect haptic feedback with visual content in treadmill VR exergames for getting more immersive user experiences, we present a novel optimization-based approach to automatically generate terrains for treadmill exergames that can match well with the user-specified treadmill workout profile. In order to validate the effectiveness of our approach, a series of numerical experiments are conducted to investigate the visual effects of the generated terrain, the virtual walking experience of the treadmill exergame, and the comparison between the manual terrain creation approach and the terrain synthesis approach.