The Metaverse to Enhance Safety Campaign toward Shipping Industry (Case Study: The Development and Implementation of Metaverse in Government-Owned Corporation)

Abstract

The Metaverse concept that uses Virtual Reality technology is a highly developed technology. We present an application from the metaverse concept using the Oculus Rift for a safety campaign with a safety training approach. This paper describes comprehensively the concept, design, development, and evaluation of the implementation of the metaverse towards the Government-Owned Corporation. The results of the evaluation involving 60 respondents prove that safety training has gotten very good results. The test also proves that the gender of the user does not affect the use of virtual reality in terms of functionality or usability (p > 0.05). Further results also prove that the application of metaverse can be applied to various age groups. This can be seen from the absence of significant differences in how well users handle the errors while operating virtual reality in the age range of 35 to 45 years (p = 0.04).

Using the metaverse in training: lessons from real cases

“…The results indicated positive outcomes for all these factors. The study also found that participants aged between 35 and 55 years were able to overcome errors while using the metaverse (Fajar et al , 2022).…”

“…Discussion: lessons from the cases A review of case studies demonstrated that the metaverse can be applied in a wide range of training domains, including safety (Fajar et al, 2022), disaster response (Hsu et al, 2013), maintenance (Siyaev and Jo, 2021), health care (Chen et al, 2022) and military (Optimus system, 2019). The metaverse provides a realistic training simulation that can mitigate the risks associated with onsite training.…”

“…Context. Fajar et al (2022) designed a ship safety training program in the metaverse. The training was carried out for a government-owned corporation in Indonesia and involved a pilot group of 60 employees.…”

“…The simulation training used a gaming approach. When trainees successfully extinguished the fire, they received a score that was displayed on their VR HoloLens; otherwise, the ship exploded if they were unable to extinguish the fire (Fajar et al , 2022).…”