Virtual reality for immersive multi-user firefighter-training scenarios

作     者：Philipp BRAUN Michaela GRAFELMANN Felix GILL Hauke STOLZ Johannes HINCKELDEYN Ann-Kathrin LANGE 

作者机构：Hamburg University of TechnologyHamburg 21073Germany 

出 版 物：《Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware》 (虚拟现实与智能硬件（中英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第4卷第5期

页      面：406-417页

核心收录：

学科分类：03[法学] 0907[农学-林学] 08[工学] 080203[工学-机械设计及理论] 0837[工学-安全科学与工程] 0838[工学-公安技术] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0306[法学-公安学] 

基　　金：Supported by Authority for Science  Research and Equality of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 

主　　题：Virtual reality Multi-user Motion capture Training Firefighting 

摘      要：Background Virtual reality(VR)applications can be used to provide comprehensive training scenarios that are difficult or impossible to represent in physical *** includes team training for emergency services such as *** a high level of immersion is essential for achieving effective virtual *** this respect,motion-capture systems offer the possibility of creating highly immersive multi-user training experiences,including full-body *** This study presents a preliminary prototype that helps extin-guish a virtual fire on a container ship as a VR training *** prototype provides a full-body and multi-user VR experience based on the synthesis of position data provided by the motion-capture system and orientation data from the VR ***,the prototype facilitates an initial evaluation of the *** The results confirm the value of using VR for training procedures that are difficult to implement in the real ***,the results show that motion-capture-based VR technologies are particularly useful for firefighting training,in which participants can collaborate in difficult-to-access ***,this study also indicates that increasing the immersion in such training remains a *** This study presents a prototypical VR application that enables the multi-user training of maritime *** research should evaluate the initial results,provide more extensive training scenarios,and measure the training progress.