Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Serious Game for School Fire Preparedness Training

Immersive virtual reality (VR) is a technology that can be effective for procedural skills training through game-based simulations such as serious games. The current study describes the instructional design, development, and evaluation of FSCHOOL fire preparedness game in cave automatic environment (CAVE-VR) elementary school teachers. main mechanics include storytelling scenario, enhanced realism, freedom movement, levels, points corresponding to learning instruction, action, simulation, discovery, repetition, imitation. was developed Unity 3D with help Fire Dynamics Simulator script emulate visualize propagation. featured three levels respond safety regulations evaluated by teachers (N = 33) Greece. A comparative quantitative conducted experimental control groups. results indicate VR appropriate training, providing challenge, enjoyment, mastery.