APPARATUS FOR EXERCISING AND COMPETING, PARTICULARLY, FOR PERFORMING SPORTIVE LOCOMOTIONS AND GAMES Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: sports equipment. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has exerciser with at least one device for communicating with sportsman and for retaining position of sportsman or his parts of body. Actuating units of related exerciser mechanisms are connected with control unit outputs. Body part position sensors are connected to control unit inputs. Exerciser has two-dimensional member, and device for retaining sportsman's body above two-dimensional member is formed as bracket having four degrees of freedom. Apparatus is further provided with virtual reality helmet having two video cameras oriented in the direction of sportsman's sight. Video cameras are connected through interface units to control unit, within which projection from video camera is overlapped onto program virtual world. Such construction allows game or passage of course by sportsman to be simulated, with outer effects acting upon sportsman being taken into account. Control unit of apparatus may be equipped with network map through which information on motions of sportsman, exerciser and their parts is transmitted to similar units or received from similar units by means of computer network. EFFECT: provision for full simulation of sportsman's real motions in different sports events with complete interaction with real environment, and of collective sports game. 4 cl, 1 dwg