Design and development virtual reality athletic — Virtual imagery to train sprinter's concentration

Sports activities are getting more and more attention from both government and society. In the athletics sport, in addition to agility and good ability, an athlete must have a strong mentality. Mental of the athlete is very critical on its performance. Most successful athletes achieve their peak achievement of 60% to 90% influenced by mental factors and the ability of athletes to master their psychological state, One of the elements of psychology that greatly affect is the concentration. Not a few athletes who have low concentration power, so it takes practice to improve the power of concentration. Therefore, the research is useful to help runners or athletes in training the power of concentration by utilizing virtual reality technology. We develop a training system for athletes by utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) that calculates head movement as concentration measurement. This system consists of VR hardware and VR environment. We have result from an experiment that said we could measure the concentration of an athlete by measuring how much the attention of an athlete is distracted. Therefore we develop a system that can simulate that. Virtual reality technology is chosen because it can deliver an immersive experience. By simulating the environment of the field during a sprinting game, it is expected that the runners will get used to the atmosphere and can concentrate on giving their best performance.