Results
Work Package 1: Sports Games
1. Running Game to encourage personal development - Testing & Training environment
These running maps developed with the Unreal game engine take the runner to a fantasy world, a walk in the forest or to conquer a mountain! This running game has been made for the Rodby RL3500E motion platform at Santasport, which brings goal-oriented running to the Testing & Training environment in addition to skiing. This game is easy to approach and offers levels for everyone. Check it out from the video!
Easy / Medium: Fantasy map
The fantasy map shrinks the runner to the size of an ant, and the player gets to exercise amidst tall grass and mushrooms. The map has two difficulty level options. The soundscape is filled with frogs croaking and crickets chirping. When the finish line approaches, you’re guaranteed to hear it!
Length: 1.2 km / 5 km
Terrain: Easy / Medium
Elevation: 8 m / 32,5 m
Rodby max incline: 5° / 10°
Medium: Roller Skiing
The Ounasvaara roller ski track in Rovaniemi was used as a base for this medium-difficulty track, where you can jog with the sounds of summer nature around you. The 2.5-kilometer course includes some challenging climbs.
Length: 2.5 km
Terrain: Medium
Elevation: 78 m
Rodby max incline: 17°
Hard: Mountain Challenge
This course is guaranteed to raise your heart rate and your lactic acid levels up! The platform will reach Rodby’s maximum incline of 20 degrees several times. Be prepared with plenty of oxygen or allow plenty of time for the course!
Length: 3 km
Terrain: Difficult
Elevation: 388 m
Rodby max incline: 20°
Work Package 2: Ergonomics of physical activity and well-being and the design of virtual experiences
1. Immersive VR Ice Plunge
The immersive VR Ice Plunge experience combines the health benefits of Amanda’s ice plunge shower with a virtual environment of the Finnish landscape. Cool water mist and realistic virtual elements, water, snow and wind, create a multimodal experience, offering a relaxing way to experience the Finnish ice plunge.
2. VR Yoga - A virtual reality yoga experience in Finnish nature
The VR yoga virtual experience combines an authentic Finnish natural environment with yoga exercises performed using motion capture technology. Participants can follow a series of movements guided by a Lapin Väki yoga instructor in a realistic summer lake landscape. The experience offers the opportunity to try yoga in a calming environment regardless of time and place, for example at home, at work or as a support for rehabilitation.
2. VR Yoga - A virtual reality yoga experience in Finnish nature
The VR yoga virtual experience combines an authentic Finnish natural environment with yoga exercises performed using motion capture technology. Participants can follow a series of movements guided by a Lapin Väki yoga instructor in a realistic summer lake landscape. The experience offers the opportunity to try yoga in a calming environment regardless of time and place, for example at home, at work or as a support for rehabilitation.
More results will be published here during the project