Explore an Evolution of Physical Education Based on Virtual Reality Lab for Traditional Ethnic Minorities’ Sports

Abstract

Purpose: Ten-year Plan for the Development of Education Informatization (2010–2020) was issued in China, which had its unique impact on improving the quality of education, promoting the evolution of educational concept, and cultivating the innovative talents with international competitiveness. This paper was to explore why and how we could establish virtual reality for traditional ethnic minorities’ sports, and aimed to teach traditional ethnic minorities culture, achieve visualization and retention with virtual reality and cloud computing technologies. Methods: We choose archery, firecrackers, and curling to construct 3D models of sports field, participants, costumes, and facilities of the three sports. Students putting on VR/AR gargles to immerse in and interact with virtual scenes. Results: 1. The construction of traditional ethnic minorities’ sports virtual reality is aiming to meet the need of P.E. development, apply the computer simulation technology, and realize the digitization, visualization, and operationalization of P.E. discipline. 2. The laboratory is consists of three sections: computer room, exploration zone, and observation zone. The processes of the lab were modeling 3D scene, constructing traditional ethnic minorities’ sports, interacting with virtual scenes, and evaluating the previous interaction. Conclusions: By the help of cloud computing and VR technology, MUC is aiming to protect and inherit the culture of traditional ethnic minorities’ sports, realize the visualization and operationalization of traditional ethnic minorities’ sports, and enhance students’ understanding of those sports and the culture of traditional ethnic minorities’ sports.