Desenvolvimento de uma aplicação em realidade virtual para treinamento de kendo

Abstract

The use of technology applied in sports comes every year becoming a great tool to help athletes training. Moreover, the post-pandemic world is undergoing dramatic changes in the way of thinking and acting, with new ways of exercising emerging, but without leaving home. This work presents the development of an application in virtual reality, as well as the build of a webservice and the establishment of a communication between both, in the client-server format. The purpose of this project is to create an application that serves to train reaction time for practitioners of the Japanese martial art kendo. For this, the Meta® Quest 2 virtual reality headset was used, through collaboration with the LABIRAS research laboratory, from the Federal Institute of Piauí. The choice of this model of virtual reality headset is due to the fact that it is a stand-alone device, that is, it does not depend on a computer or wired connection for its operation, allowing greater freedom of movement for its users. Using this device, it was possible to test the application in virtual reality, which was created using Unreal Engine as a game engine, together with additional plug-ins to enable communication with the webservice. Finally, the development of the application in virtual reality and the webservice were completed, as well as the creation of the database. In addition, both the webservice and the database were deployed in the cloud through the Render platform, thus allowing remote access and testing anywhere, anytime.