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Podcast: The Perception & Action Podcast
Episode: Virtual Environments for Training & Understanding Sports Skills III: Altering Reality for Research
Description: How have researchers used virtual environments to distort reality, disobey gravity, create conflicting feedback, and alter an athlete's perception in the name of science? How have they effectively brought rate events in sports into the lab? Articles/links: Behavior of College Baseball Players in a Virtual Batting Task Perceiving and Acting upon Spaces in a VR Rugby Task: Expertise Effects in Affordance Detection and Task Achievement Virtual reality as a tool for the study of perception– action: the case of running to catch fly balls Catching fly bal...