Introduction

As the name suggests this is an internet application closely related to aerobics. It is an innovative on-line service, which implements high technology and the internet in order to improve the field of athletics and specifically aerobics. The fundamental idea is based on offering an on-line aerobics lesson. Very simply, a web-site will be able to connect people throughout the globe and provide an on-line aerobics lesson disregarding problems like distance, time pressure, mobility, invalidity etc.; this sounds rather impossible but it is achievable thanks to technology.

In general, a web camera will monitor an aerobics instructor giving a lesson, isolate his image and transfer it into the web-site. People connected to this site will be able to view him. In fact the idea suggests the use of virtual reality helmets which will offer virtual reality vision and a variety of other benefits. At the same time users will be monitored by a simple web camera. An identical process will take place and transfer their image into the web-site. Subsequently, the web-site will contain a number of individual users' images and an aerobics' instructor.

This prosthetic virtual environment is literally an aerobics class, taking place in the internet. It employs simple technology to create an evolution in the area of athletics and to offer a number of benefits to both providers and users.







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