VR Training on Hand-Eye Coordination and Reaction Time in Students

The Opole University of Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Virtual Reality

Treatments: Device: VR training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05458804

Beat Saber RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Virtual reality (VR) is a three-dimensional image, which is created by means of computer programs. In most educational communities VR has been used as an opportunity to support many students. VR allows the user to observe the world generated for their own needs as the real world and experience impressions that are not available in real life. It was decided to examine how immersive VR-game will affect the eye-hand coordination on reaction time on students. The experimental group received a five-day training sessions using immersive VR game "Beat Saber", while control group was inactive comparator.

Full description

Eye-hand coordination can be defined as the ability to perform activities that require the simultaneous use of eyes and hands. Eye-hand coordination supports our daily activities, interactions with objects and people, and is critical to understanding how the brain creates internal models of the space and generates movement within it. Along with the development of technology, opportunities for stimulation of eye-hand coordination with the use of technical novelties have appeared. Virtual reality (VR) is a three-dimensional image, which is created by means of computer programs. It has become one of the technologies that offer many possibilities of application and use of its various aspects that can bring great benefits in the real world. In most educational communities VR has been used as an opportunity to support many students. It can be assumed that VR can help trainers or teachers, especially music teachers, by interacting through movement, realization and graphic images, to develop and shape skills such as eye-hand coordination. The use of virtual reality gives a wide range of possibilities for training, so it was decided to examine how it will affect the coordination of the eye-hand and reaction time in students.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 27 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• acceptance to participate in the research,
• age 18-27

Exclusion criteria

• diagnosed neurological diseases,
• fear of wearing goggles
• diagnosed diseases or injuries of the musculoskeletal system
• regular sports activities during the week.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Active experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants were subjected to a 15-minute training session, once a day for 5 consecutive days. HTC VIVE Pro (HTC Corporation, New Taipei, Taiwan) goggles and accessories were used. It is specialized equipment consisting of a high-resolution screen goggles and headphones, using an Intel WiGig Wireless connection, and the technology allows for free 360 degrees of movement. The interaction in virtual reality is performed using two controllers held by the player. The movement of the controllers and goggles is tracked by two sensors. The game area covered about 5m2, in the form of a rectangle, determined by the location of motion sensors, as recommended by the manufacturer. The participant received visual information when approaching the boundaries of the game field. A Beat Saber music game was used to conduct training sessions

Treatment:

Device: VR training

Passive Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group did not participate in the training, and were instructed not to perform specific physical activities aimed at improving the examined abilities