During the project, the teams from Lapland UAS and Santasport have developed a running game that works with the big Rodby treadmill. The game is now complete, and Santasport has conducted user testing for it during the spring. The published version of the game will...

Mocappe presented the University of Lapland yoga demo at the Gamifin conference in Saariselkä from 23 to 27 March, where the possibilities of gamification were explored. At the event, we presented the demo's user experience and its technical features, such as motion...

In January, we visited Muonio High School to present demos from the University of Lapland. The students were able to test out the VR yoga demo. The students were able to test it out at their own pace, and they were able to give feedback on the immersiveness of the VR...

The MOCAP Systems in Gamifying Sports and Wellness Analysis project (MOCAPPE) has now wrapped up its first year of operation. The project is inno-developing the three sports, exercise and XR environments of Rovaniemi's educational operators both physically and...

In a workshop organized by MOCAPPE at Santasport, the workshop participants tried out the university's yoga and avanto demos and mapped their own preferences for using VR in sports. The goal was to map out what kind of platform VR could offer athletes. The...

On Friday, October 31st, we organized a demo testing workshop at the Pelisilmä 2 event at Santasport. During the event, we were able to test the first demo version of our running game from work package 1 - for the first time to the public!The testers were instructed...

We are now trying out the 3D-environments for the running game in Santasport's sports testing environment. We have reached a stage in the technical development where we have moved from the "dev desk" to test out the data processing between the game engine and the...

During the summer, University of Lapland conducted user testing at the XR Lab about the immersive VR experiences in Cold Plunging. The aim of the study is to compare immersion and its impact on the user experience with various physical elements while the participant...

The first spring of the MOCAPPE project is coming to an end. Both work packages are going forward, and noth the game and POC implementations are progressing well by the University of Lapland as well as Lapland University of Applied Sciences and Santasport. The LapUAS...

The University of Lapland held a workshop in Kittilä, where entrepreneurs had the opportunity to listen to a talk on XR topics. After this, participants were able to try out VR glasses through several demos, as well as 360 tours, and also create their own 3D models of...