According to Overin, eSports is also developing with the use of virtual reality technology, thanks to which VR games can enter world competitions. "There is such a precedent: video game developer Racket: Nx (playing racquetball in virtual reality. - RBC Trends ) applied to the International Racketball Federation with a request to include their game in the Olympics. The fact of filing such an application shows how far VR technologies have spread in sports, "the expert said. However, such technologies can be useful to a person not only within the framework of big sports. The Zwift app has already gained popularity - it's an online game for cyclists, runners, and triathletes that allows you to train and compete in the virtual world.
When computer companies start mass-producing VR glasses, and they become more affordable for consumers, including in price, people will actively use them for physical training, says Arkady Overin. "Thanks to artificial intelligence and VR, a person will be able to exercise remotely with a personal trainer, and with the help of technology, he will be able to control the correctness of the exercises performed, and so on. In general, augmented reality can perfectly diversify sports activities: running in the gym on a treadmill, a person will be able to feel like in a huge stadium with virtual avatars of friends or rivals - this motivates to play sports, "says the expert.
The future of sports
Experts believe that although technology is evolving, robots are unlikely to displace humans from stadiums. Most likely, the human sports we know, e-sports, competitions between robots will develop in their own direction. "Culture is now a mosaic, any spectacle attracts a circle of lovers, but this circle is not dominant. Now not everyone watches soccer and hockey. I think people will watch different sports and play different sports in thirty-fifty years," says Konstantin Frumkin.
Andrey Smirnov recalls that people lost chess to computers many years ago, but chess as a sport has not changed: it is still more interesting for a person to measure intelligence with other people, and not with computers. "In the same way, people are competing to run over each other and not trying to overtake a motorcycle created by man and honed to solve one problem - go fast," Smirnov said.
The question of the fate of major sporting events remains open. According to Frumkin, they are in a "slow, almost imperceptible crisis and extinction".
"This crisis is related to the fact that a person has reached the limit of his body. The organizers of sports competitions tried to get around this phenomenon both by increasing the number of sports categories (for example, weight), and by reducing the units of measurement - from seconds they moved to hundredths and thousandths of a second. Now there is no point in doing this," says the expert. Complicating the sports situation is the possibility of doping, or rather, the disguise of doping chemistry in human biomaterials. All this, says Konstantin Frumkin, calls into question the meaning of big sport. "There is no escape from these facts. Some organizers of sporting events will deny the crisis in sports and resist the decline in interest in it, while others will look for new marketing solutions to promote big sports," the futurist concludes.
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