Using virtual environments to train firefighters

Tate, David L.; Sibert, Linda E.; King, T.

doi:10.1109/38.626965

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“…Many other simulation training applications are being used by the military for all types of training, for example in flight simulations [11], naval firefighters training [15], naval gunfire support [16], etc.…”

Section: B Simulation Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ARP Virtual Reality System in Addressing Security Threats and Disaster Scenarios

Chow

Pose

Regan

2005

TENCON 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10 Conference

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Nations, corporations and political organizations around the world today are forced to deal with an increasing number of security threats. As a result, various organizations must find ways to adequately equip and prepare themselves to handle numerous dangerous and life threatening circumstances. Virtual reality is an extremely important technology that can be used across a variety of different fields and for a number of diverse applications, ranging from simulation training to visualization tools, in order to prepare for and manage disaster situations. Head mounted display (HMD) virtual reality systems attempt visually to immerse the user in a virtual environment. However, it is well recognized that latency, the delay in responding to a user's head movement, is a major shortcoming that plagues immersive HMD virtual reality systems. Excessive latency destroys the illusion of reality that such systems attempt to present to the user. A hardware architecture known as the address recalculation pipeline (ARP) and a computer graphics rendering technique called priority rendering, were designed to reduce the end-to-end latency suffered by immersive HMD virtual reality systems. This paper discusses the benefits of using the ARP virtual reality system in addressing security threats and disaster situations. Abstract-Nations, corporations and political organizations around the world today are forced to deal with an increasing number of security threats. As a result, various organizations must find ways to adequately equip and prepare themselves to handle numerous dangerous and life threatening circumstances. Virtual reality is an extremely important technology that can be used across a variety of different fields and for a number of diverse applications, ranging from simulation training to visualization tools, in order to prepare for and manage disaster situations. Head Mounted Display (HMD) virtual reality systems attempt visually to immerse the user in a virtual environment. However, it is well recognized that latency, the delay in responding to a user's head movement, is a major shortcoming that plagues immersive HMD virtual reality systems. Excessive latency destroys the illusion of reality that such systems attempt to present to the user. A hardware architecture known as the Address Recalculation Pipeline (ARP) and a computer graphics rendering technique called priority rendering, were designed to reduce the end-to-end latency suffered by immersive HMD virtual reality systems. This paper discusses the benefits of using the ARP virtual reality system in addressing security threats and disaster situations. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics

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Section: B Simulation Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ARP Virtual Reality System in Addressing Security Threats and Disaster Scenarios

Chow

Pose

Regan

2005

TENCON 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10 Conference

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“…Simulation in virtual environments is used for training purposes in many areas; industry (Greengard, 1998), medicine (Mahoney, Simulating 1997); or other work areas involving high risk like fire fighting (Tate et. al., 1997), truck driving (Mahoney, Defensive 1997), etc.…”

Section: Applications In Trainingmentioning

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Dynamic Simulation in Virtual Environments as an Evaluation Tool for Architectural Design

Tasli

Özgüç

2001

Architectural Science Review

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“…Specifically researchers have placed students in the role and appearance of a gorilla inside a virtual zoo, so the students can better gain knowledge about gorillas [6]. Finally, the Navy has shown that VR can be effective for learning how to navigate inside a ship for success in shipboard fire fighting [19]. This body of research shows that VR can be useful for learning a wide range of tasks, and that these learned skills can often transfer over to the real world.…”

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Evaluating the effects of image persistence on dynamic target acquisition in low frame rate virtual environments

Zielinski

Rao

Potter

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)

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User performance in virtual environments with degraded visual conditions due to low frame rates is an interesting area of inquiry. Visual content shown in a low frame rate simulation has the quality of the original image, but persists for an extended period until the next frame is displayed (so-called high persistence -HP). An alternative, called low persistence (LP), involves displaying the rendered frame for a single display frame and blanking the screen while waiting for the next frame to be generated. Previous research has evaluated the usefulness of the LP technique in low frame rate simulations during a static target acquisition task. To gain greater knowledge about the LP technique, we have conducted a user study to evaluate user performance and learning during a dynamic target acquisition task. The acquisition task was evaluated under a high frame rate, (60 fps) condition, a traditional low frame rate HP condition (10 fps), and the experimental low frame rate LP technique. The task involved the acquisition of targets moving along several different trajectories, modeled after a shotgun trap shooting task. The results of our study indicate the LP condition approaches high frame rate performance within certain classes of target trajectories. Interestingly we also see that learning is consistent across conditions, indicating that it may not always be necessary to train under a visually high frame rate system to learn a particular task. We discuss implications of using the LP technique to mitigate low frame rate issues as well as its potential usefulness for training in low frame rate virtual environments.

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Using virtual environments to train firefighters

Cited by 71 publications

References 8 publications

The ARP Virtual Reality System in Addressing Security Threats and Disaster Scenarios

The ARP Virtual Reality System in Addressing Security Threats and Disaster Scenarios

Dynamic Simulation in Virtual Environments as an Evaluation Tool for Architectural Design

Evaluating the effects of image persistence on dynamic target acquisition in low frame rate virtual environments

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