China News Service, Shanghai, October 28 (Reporter Miao Lu) "Virtual sports can attract more people to participate in sports, especially for the younger generation. The higher the degree of participation, the wider the Coverage, a stronger sense of experience, technology empowers the development of events, breaks the sports dimension wall, and provides new opportunities for mass sports, fashion lifestyles and the development of the sports industry." said Xu Zhigang, director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Sports Management Center.
Xu Zhigang made the above statement at the city's own brand digital sports event held on the evening of the 27th - the Shanghai Virtual Sports Open SVS (Shanghai Virtual Sports Open, referred to as "SVS") "One River and One River" Virtual Rowing Special Invitational Tournament. The salon with the theme of "i rowing" was held at the same time.
Virtual sports is a combination of innovative technology and traditional sports. It presents the competition content of traditional sports in the form of virtual, human-computer interaction and high-tech means such as AI intelligence and scene simulation. Movement becomes within reach.
In the evening, with Lujiazui in Pudong as the background, the representatives of the players from the 7th competition area of the SVS rowing project and the representative of the Vanke De Yingle Rowing Team, Zhang Wangbin, a former member of the Shanghai rowing team, sweated and controlled the rowing machine equipment. A virtual rowing competition was held on the virtual Huangpu River 2km track.
Combining virtual and real competition scenes, using the virtual rowing platform to combine virtual events to promote rowing sports, bringing traditional sports into the era of science and technology, at the same time, on the gorgeous stage of the "Metaverse", to show the outside world that Shanghai is a world-class waterfront city of glamour and brilliance.
Photo courtesy of the organizer of the Shanghai Virtual Sports Open SVS "One River and One River" Virtual Rowing Special Invitational Tournament
Realize the combination of virtual and reality with the help of metaverse technology, attract more outsiders to pay attention to these sports, and gradually cultivate them from Xiaobai to the ultimate in-depth enthusiasts. This is what virtual sports technology brings to rowing events. The most important breakthrough.
You Huizhen, deputy director of Shanghai Oriental Sports Evaluation Consulting, believes that the features of virtual sports, which are fun and easy to participate in, can successfully attract young people and provide them with a new interface to traditional sports.
Not limited by time and space, global networking can also realize the social attributes of sports.
The Shanghai Virtual Sports Open has opened up a new field of domestic virtual sports and is expected to become a popular trend in the future.
Cao Minglei, champion of the Rowing Asia Championship, pointed out that the promotion of indoor rowing machines can reduce the threshold and cost of participating in rowing.
"In our studio store, many people have learned from the rowing machine that it is similar to the movement principle of rowing. When their physical training reaches a certain level, they will choose to go outdoor rowing, and the sense of movement rhythm supported by physical fitness can be Let them better experience the charm of boating on the water." (End)