Can Virtual Reality Improve Real Life Table Tennis?! | 30 Day Challenge 

Have you played ELEVEN table tennis? 🏓

As a person who started playing Table Tennis with Eleven , I can proudly say it's a great and uncanny realistic game, the skills absolutely translate, but the best part is, you never have to get the ball

I had so much fun filming this with you, Dan. Can’t believe how much I improved! Never thought I’d be so excited to get on a real table but absolutely loved VR! Anyone fancy a game?! 😂🏓

never played table tennis for almost a decade and was beginner to begin with, decided to play eleven during pandemic and really invest my time learning. Couldn't believe the improvement myself and how it all did translate into real table tennis skills!

In our local table tennis league I went from loosing 95% my games to wining 60% of them just because of ELEVEN TT. One of my favourite game.

When I bought the Oculus Quest, as it was then, I had no idea it was a £299 tennis table. That's about all I use it for now, and it's great. Lost weight, and had fun doing it. No need for the exercise bike.

What a brilliant experiment. Never expected the results would turn out as good as they did after just 30 days. Great stuff Dan and well done Chloe! :D

I never played TT before. Started in VR. Really enjoyed it, after several months, joined a club irl. Skills transferred over really well. Now a year and a half later, still playing irl and VR. Great vid!!!

This is amazing. I've been playing Eleven Table Tennis for over a year now and it's changed my life!

VR ping pong has reconnected me with my high school ping pong buddies that live in other parts of the world now. Really cool stuff

I think the best part about eleven is that your coach is no longer only who is geographically available to you. Also, they did not mention it in the video, but both people are using a paddle adaptor. Definitely get one if you are transitioning from VR to regular table tennis - I suggest the Sanlaki! Top video Dan, thanks for sharing ❤

her topspin is unbelievably good considering she has only been playing for a month. this is so impressive. congrats

"It's absolutely mental." such a British phrase, it makes me giggle every time I hear it.

This is really amazing! Considering how much harder it is to make it to a real table and play for an hour a day than it is to be at home and pick up a VR headset for an hour, I can really see this catching on.

That is actually incredible! I haven't played TT for a couple of years and I picked up Eleven VR a couple of days, and I'm amazed how real it feels! It's also really cool to see that it translates from VR to the real thing too!

Great video Dan. This will help many IRL players get an idea of VR TT... and see that it isn’t like a Wii game 😅

I personally learned first in VR and then my ball recognition and shot quality transferred to IRL. It took a couple hits to get used to IRL (maybe because I didn’t use a proper paddle grip) but I began beating my friends who have played IRL way longer than I have

This was fantastic! More Chloe please, her genuine enthusiasm was priceless

Good job! Just wondering if there was some solo training involved with the Eleven Ball machine or if you kept it to 30-60 minutes a day of one on one training? If the machine wasn't used yet I'd expect results even more crazy than this. For sure once the stroke mechanics are more ingrained and your pupil can start working on footwork. Basically just want to confirm you can improve using VR also at higher levels. Either way very impressive improvement, hope she keeps playing table tennis in any or all dimensions. I keep getting stunned with people's progress training in VR.

Dan, you should invest in a new adapter for improved tracking! SolidSlime or Wasyl (if you have money to spend). Beginners will undoubtedly improve with ETT, you’ve just proven it! Advanced players like yourself - and I’m sure you’ve experienced it - will struggle to translate real-life techniques to ETT like-for-like, and you have to be willing to make some compromises. ETT physics are not 100% accurate (yet), so you need to adjust. What it does help good irl players with is physique and footwork! Some of my matches against other top-20 players are brutal! Especially for people with a less-than-optimal technique, ETT can be a confidence booster. In England, I was hardly good enough for British League, while in ETT I’m a regular top 50 player (out of +1 million users)

Great video! While I definitely wasn't as green as Chloe when I started ETT, I wasn't very experienced. I would very rarely play with my friends and could sometimes go years without playing and when I did I would just focus on only getting heavy spin on the ball because it was fun. I've had ETT for a bit but didn't really start getting heavily into it until about October of 2022 and I have certainly grown leaps in game and real life and am learning new techniques from experiments as well as the great community in the game. I have not signed up for club play yet but am certainly interested. I have access to a table at work that I play with a co-worker and I definitely see a carry over. I saw someone mention the weight of the ball in another comment and that was probably the same for me as well. I do feel I can swing a little harder in VR and get more out of my paddle than RL, though my paddle is about 13 years old at this point so that doesn't help. I use the SolidSlime adapter and it has worked great for me. Before getting it, my FH worked very well but I had issues adjusting to the angle of my backhand for some reason and was inconsistent. I really enjoy your ETT videos and hope to see many more!

Very nice. Great progress, super likeable. Please stay on the ball and keep training. It was a lot of fun to watch you. I will also try Eleven on my son's VR. 👍🏻

300k Congrats! This is an awesome idee. I was already wondering if and how much you can improve real life table tennis skills or can even mess them up. So would be fun to see the mess up part where someone who can already play relatively decent. Like basic serve and attack stuff. Put him into VR and see if he got better or worse. Because in VR you are not depending on your training facilities opening hours and can train whenever you want. I really love the idea right now. Edit: aaaaannnnnd having a virtual coaching software would be so easy to implement because you already have everything right there. Acceleration data, bat movement and so on. I hope VR tech improves fast. Already waiting to buy one but i am not satisfied with the current models.

I play Eleven with an penhold adaptor and it really helps me to improve beside my regular training - and it's also super fun!

What a fantastic idea! Well done on demonstrating how useful a tool Eleven is for new players particularly. If you're a coach and you are training someone new to table tennis IRL, imagine how much faster your student will improve if they are able to go home and spend the next week practicing what they learned in your session. VR Absolutely maximises progress for new players and this video 100% proves it.

No way, I've actually kinda done this. Started playing in eleven, six months later started in real life and I'm now playing in a real league in Scotland. I'm only division four but it's been a great journey and I'm having a lot of fun.

This is an amazing video, really creative content 👏Could this be the future of sports coaching!?

Wow,crazy to see how much she improved

Great stuff! What a massive improvement. Very good technique!

This is amazing simulator. It's worth buying quest 2 just for this game alone. It costs like real table tennis but you can play with much less space, play everyday with people around the world and there is fancy table tennis robot for practice returns and shots and this is really expensive IRL.

This is amazing to see. You can use ELEVEN to get a good foundation and then refine technique at the real table. Great content!

8:13 the Truls Moregard special!

Amazing how the skills learned in VR translated to the real table. Suprised by the quality of her chop! Gj of her and the coach :)

Great vid pumped to start practicing on vr

I played table tennis for many years. Her learning progress is unbelievably good. Congratulations!

I love seeing her enjoyment of progressing over time. VR gaming is surprisingly fun! I remember the Wii Sports game that came with that system and how fun that was. Turns out motion tracking rather than accelerometers is the way to go!

This happened to me during covid. I had just taken up the game when covid hit and was an absolute beginner. I met a few very helpful players on 11 who gave me some free coaching and when I went back to irl table tennis I was much improved. Even joined the league. But can affect irl play if you don't use an adaptor to play the game.

Such amazing progress! I haven't had a chance to try out ELEVEN Table Tennis but hoping to get a chance soon! Keep up the great videos!

This is so much fun!!! I love this video :D

Wow, just after 30 days, Chloe now can be a choleee!!

I didn’t even have a forehand when I started playing eleven. I’m now rated 2300 and when I play in real life it takes me a second to adjust but so much transfers! Great game, great video

Great idea, great video! I am on eleven sometimes, it has its pros and cons...but is always fun to play with an adapter. But they should work on the physics ...the table has too less impact on the bounce of the ball...but that really depends on how used you are to the real game.

wow this is awesome... would be so great if this could be also in schools for learning >D

the physics in the software must be perfect! amazing. but how to calculate with different types of rubbers? different rubbers would have different effects. is there some function where you can input the rubber name? that would be really cool

This is awesome, been playing Eleven for a couple weeks now and I wasn't sure if the skills would translate - cant wait to go head to head against someone now IRL!

Can't wait to put the skills I learned from TTD tutorials and the almost 2 years of playing ETT into action on a real table. Never played IRL but looking forward to it. I am absolutely hooked on TT. And as for TTD content, you guys are legends. One day I will loop like the Captain. Lol.

8:13 Almost Franziska warning on that one haha.

Awesome idea for a video!

These results are crazy 🤯 Coaches can now help develop players anywhere in the world !!!

This video made me buy quest 3 and i love it.

Fantastic stuff

Really impressive result!

What a good video!!! Thank you

Great video this was a very interesting experiment

No way.. This is really cool!

This is fantastic

What was the training protocol? This is awesome.

Increible. Maybe I can correct my technique after 40 years😂

What makes eleven vr so effective is because how real the physics are and how quick you can pick up a ball.

It's pretty amazing, but the game is so realistic the potential to coach people all over the world is possible watching this. I'm going to give it a go with my kids 👍

Today I was like... let me check this table tennis game... 3 hours later...

If a table tennis robot actually had rails to move..... and the table can detect where to ball hits, so a screen connected to the robot on the other side can project another player doing a move that correlates with the spin and speed the robot is launching the ball from your POV do the moves according to where the ball hit, and your racket also detects how hard and what spin you put onto the ball. That will definitely improve table tennis.

4:28 “I’m really excited to go on the table now” - that’s what she said!

Shocking! 😂

This is absolutely astonishing .... I did play Elven Table Tennis for a while when we were not allowed to play Table Tennis indoor but even though I won most matches I got kinda pissed of the headset randomly loosing track of my racket and stuff like that as well as some people doing weird high speed serves I have never seen even half as fast in reality plus not having enough space in my flat to properly move. Still the game wasn't to bad and seeing how she improved in that one month is crazy. How long did the "train" each day ? The Technique isn't really that good especially as you can't correct it in VR not seeing her movements except for the racket but still very good.

definitely gonna get eleven tt this once i get vr

That is unreal. She became so good!

Absolutely incredible

Really impressive

Hey Dan, great concept and really well made video! I was talking to friends about this and we were unsure: Up to wich player level would you say that virtual training can actually help you improve? For beginners it obviously helps a lot. But how about a player on your level? Would you see a benefit for your own training overall or at least in certain areas?

When she landed that first topspin on the real table, Dan was like GET OUT OF HEAR!!! 😂

It's amazing to see a simulator that works that well... wow I would love to try this, maybe I'll get the meta quest 2, who knows

This is what thé game needs: empirical and reallife proof of the benefits of vr gaming. Thx a lot: the community is forever in your debt!!

Actually got into table tennis and signed up at my local club because of playing Eleven Table Tennis!

How’s the force feedback for the VR? TT is a delicate game where feeling for the ball is vital.

Holyyy this is so amazing

Come to Norway!

Did you tweak the physics at all for this or did you use defaults?

Vert interesting and surprising

Great video idea Dan! The improvements made in such a short time were very impressive. I'm interested in giving it a go myself as getting out to play for real can be difficult for me, could anyone give me any info on what kind of hardware/software I need to get started? As I've never tried VR before. Thanks 😀

Everytime I've played it, when I come back to training, It fully messes with me and ruins my technique

It really is a great video, I'm gonna comment twice 🤣 and do we need a name on her shirt now @TableTennisDaily 🤔

Her improvement is madddd

exelent too see, to learn in 30days

crazy! its wonderful to see how eleven is this good at training newbies and getting them over the roof in skills. Very good work for those who developed the game and the table tennis community

Where did you get the attachment for the controller?

It works fine 💪

Amazing! If it was 1st April then this would definitely be a wind up! Does the controller feel like a real bat even though it looks a bit weird? I wonder what level someone could reach using this method. Now we could all be coached by Tom the Frog, (or even by Timo the Boll.)

Awesome

I’m wondering which kind of adapter was used in the video?

Amazing‼︎😆

It's insane how well the VR training actually translated to the development of the overall stroke. I didn't think it would be that effective honestly.

I play it in vr sometimes but never in real life but it is super fun

It’s so insane to see how tech can do so much in many so many ways

Biggest advantage I can see on playing virtual reality table tennis is not having to pick up the ball from the ground :)

Now I would like to see a 30 day challenge where a real-life table tennis player volunteers to only play Eleven Table Tennis for 30 days to determine if and how much his abilities decline in real life during that time.

wow

In my opinion: the game is good for learning the basics, but there are some differences. Like they say here: yes it learns you to play pingpong, but not tabletennis. To clarify: Yes you will be able to play a bit of tabletennis, but it is not enough to start playing competition. with the play ingame, if you do the same moves IRL, you will or play the ball in the net, or to return it, but return it that high, that your adversary can easily attack on it. Also Spin is treated in another way ingame than IRL, not to forget the wide variety of rubbers

I need to get VR, get ETT, and get me a VR ETT coach!

What paddles are you using?