Maritime Wharf Excursion
Learning some procedures required for working on a ship wharf is usually a difficult and costly process due to limited access to an actual location and lots of risk involved. In order to help students learn easily and safely, the NewMedia Centre created a multiplayer VR application where they can learn multiple disciplines on a ship wharf in a virtual environment.
2019 | Jeroen Pruijn (Faculty of Maritime Engineering)
Learning some procedures required for working on a ship wharf is usually a difficult and costly process due to limited access to an actual location and lots of risk involved. Still, students of the faculty of 3mE (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) have to practice some assembly and logistics ship operations.
In order to help students learn easily and safely, the NewMedia Centre created a multiplayer VR application where they can learn multiple disciplines on a ship wharf in a virtual environment. Once in VR, the students perform different tasks from identifying and locating the required parts of the ship to transporting them and assembling the hull of the ship with a crane. During the whole experience they work in a team and perform these practical tasks while learning to navigate through the ship together. All the team members communicate through virtual walkie talkies, created specifically to increase the realism of their communication in VR.