Emergency Water Landing VR (Oculus Rift) OFFICIAL
The first immersive experience of an airliner water landing and evacuation, from the passenger’s perspective. “Emergency Water Landing VR” can be downloaded from Oculus: https://share.oculus.com/app/emergenc....
The experience is a glimpse of the future of safety education, created at the University of Udine by the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (http://hcilab.uniud.it), a research and development team specialized in safety apps (for more apps see http://hcilab.uniud.it/apps).
A user study has shown that the virtual experience of water landing and evacuation produces better knowledge retention results than traditional aviation safety education materials. For more information, see:
Chittaro L., Buttussi F. “Assessing Knowledge Retention of an Immersive Serious Game vs. a Traditional Education Method in Aviation Safety”, published by the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2...
The emergency scenario depicted in “Emergency Water Landing VR” is partially inspired by a well-known accident (January 15, 2009; US Airways Flight 1549) in which Captain Chesley Sullenberger performed a successful water landing of his airliner after the aircraft suffered a loss of power to both engines.
MUSIC Credits: "Dangerous" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com, Music Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0)