Heart Rate Monitoring System in Virtual Environment: The Case of Daily Exercise with Virtual Reality

The emergence of impressive virtual reality (VR) devices make the virtual reality applications are very popular. There are several VR applications which is involve the user's physical activity while making any interaction with virtual entities. Sometimes the user is not aware that physical activity can drain a lot of energy. The effect of the user who lacks energy is user feel exhausted. One indicator of exhausted is heart rate changes. Current wearable devices have a lot of attached sensor. We proposed the model to monitor users heart rate while making any physical activities in the virtual environment by using the wearable device. Machine to Machine (M2M) communication through an internet network (wireless) can be used to integrate the VR system and wearable device system. In this case, user simulate daily exercise through VR application to make any physical activities. Users felt that this heart rate monitoring system was satisfied, effective, and efficient measured by an adapted System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire.