Virtuality engineering in esports

• Autorzy: Białecki Andrzej , Gajewski Jan , Romaniuk Ryszard

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.24425/ijet.2024.149522

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Traditional sports and esports benefit from the development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including gaming, 4D image/video processing, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), big data, high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud computing. On the fuzzy border between the areas of physical and modified reality, both types of sports can coexist. The hardware layer of esports includes PC, consoles, smartphones, and peripherals used to interface with computers, including sensors and feedback devices. The IT layer of esports includes algorithms required in the development of games, online platforms, and virtual reality. The esports community includes amateur and professional players, spectators, esports organizers, sponsors, and other stakeholders. Esports and gaming research spans throughout law (intellectual rights, insurance, safety, and age restrictions), administration (teams, clubs, organizations, league regulations, and tournaments) biology (medicine, psychology, addiction, training and education) Olympic and non- Olympic disciplines, ethical issues, game producers, finance, gambling, data acquisition and analysis. Our article aims to presents selected research issues of esports in the ICT virtualization layer.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

esports; enhanced and virtual realitie; AR; VR; gaming; human-computer interaction

• Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunication
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 70, No. 1
• Strony: 123--134
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 74 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Białecki Andrzej

• Warsaw University of Technology

autor

Gajewski Jan

• Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education

autor

Romaniuk Ryszard

• Warsaw University of Technology

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Uwagi

1. Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).

2. The study was supported by Polish Ministry of Education and Science in the years 2023–2024 under the University Research Project number 3 at Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw “Postural assessment and accelerometric characterisation of movement technique in selected sports disciplines”.