Application of Virtual Reality Program to Improve Individual Skills for Soccer Players

Background and Aim: This study takes the application of VR technology in soccer training as the research object and is expected to achieve the following research objectives: 1. To study the influence of VR technology on soccer heading and 、free kick and shooting accuracy of college soccer. 2. To compare the mean values between the experimental group and the control group.3. To compare the mean values within the experimental group; pre-test, after the 3rd and 9th weeks. Materials and Methods: This paper utilizes the literature method, experimental method, mathematical statistics method, questionnaire method, and scale measurement method to study the application of VR technology in soccer training. 48 sophomore students in the 2020 soccer option class of Nanchang University were randomly divided into the VR experimental group (22), and the control group (26). After a 9-week experimental study, we successfully completed the experimental procedures, The data obtained from the questionnaire survey and experiments were analyzed and interpreted in depth using the SPSS software package. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and analysis of variance were mainly used to analyze the collected information. and drew the following conclusions through the statistics and analysis of the experimental results: Results: 1. Soccer heading, free kick, and shooting accuracy were selected as the experimental indexes to test the personal technical ability of soccer players. In a comparison between the experimental and control groups, the VR experimental group showed highly significant differences in soccer heading, free kicks and shooting accuracy after 9 weeks of instructional training (p <0.001).2.The results of the paired t-test in the experimental group showed that: there was a highly significant difference between the pre and post-experimental comparisons of soccer heading, free kicks and shooting accuracy(p < 0 .001).3.The results of the questionnaire for the Emotional Interest in Sport Scale showed that： at the end of the experiment, the VR training group scored higher than the control group on all questionnaires with a highly significant difference(p < 0 .001). Conclusion: 1. The experimental group compared with the control group, individual soccer skills in the first phase of the traditional teaching after the progress of gall is not obvious; after the second phase of the VR technology teaching after the progress is very obvious, all three data show a highly significant difference.2. Both the experimental data and the survey investigation data show that the improvement of self-confidence and the improvement of individual soccer skills in real-life performance of the students in the experimental group before and after the experiment are very obvious.