Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and the Occupational Safety & Health Council (OSH) co-developed a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) system. The system applies VR technology on a 3D interface to create immersive virtual environments on a 4 meter x 4 meter dynamic platform. It can stimulate a gliding ramp, with addition of wind effect and trace device to stimulate industrial accident scenes in 4D Virtual Reality experience. With the VR headsets, trainees can immerse into a real working environment such as the truss-out bamboo scaffold work environment, to experience an accident safely in the system, so as to realise the importance of adhering to safety measures. Deployed in the OSH Immersive Experience Hall, the CAVE has been used by over 1,500 trainees since it was introduced in December 2019.
The CAVE system has been used by more than 1,500 trainees at the OSH Immersive Experience Hall.