Examination of a technique to present the feeling of swimming endlessly underwater by the mechanism to pull back the body and the visual stimulus

Abstract

-Regarding scuba diving, it is required to reduce the accident rate of inexperienced divers and to quickly train undersea workers. However, on-the-job training is indispensable for improving the skills of scuba diving, but there is a problem that on-the-job training is expensive. To solve this problem, we aim to develop a virtual underwater experience system for performing scuba diving training that reproduces various underwater conditions in a familiar pool. In this study, we examined the method of presenting the sensation of infinite sea travel in the water using the illusion method of the movement sensation by the retraction by the body retraction mechanism and the visual stimulus.