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| Middletown elementary students are 1st to experiment with life-sized gym video game. |
A Middletown elementary school is one of the first in the region to immerse students in gym class into a giant, interactive video game where they train both their bodies and brains.
Amanda Elementary students are now experimenting with a visually stimulating projection system that has them answering math and other academic questions by hitting the correct answers flashed colorfully on to a giant screen.
Adding to the virtual reality immersion is energetic music pumped through a sound system used while gym class teams compete to see who can first finish a series of questions by smacking a rubberized ball off the colorful screen.
The music and flashing lights are synchronized with the students accurately smacking the ball on answers projected as targets on the 11-foot-high and 20-foot-long screen...
“The interactive aspects of fitness gaming – competition, attention to details in the virtual environment, the need for participants to anticipate events and make decisions – all have a very positive effect on executive functioning as well as on attention, working memory, planning, multi-tasking and problem-solving skills,” according to company’s website.
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Source: Hamilton Journal News
