Community Economic Development Fund
VR Safety, Pico Neo 2 & 3
Thompson, MB
September, 2020
Mining VR is aimed at being a career exploration experience for the younger generations. This experience allows users to learn about working in a mine without putting them in any danger.
This simulation was broken down into two parts. Part 1 uses VRSafety to take you down into a mine. You start in the facility and learn about PPE, mining procedures, and other safety protocol. Next, you go down the elevator into the mine shaft where you explore the tunnels in 360 photos and videos where you’ll explore the equipment, garage, and some of the active areas.
Part 2 is a Virtual Reality game with two components. First, you start in the PPED room to get ready, grab your equipment, and learn about what is needed. Second, you move down into the mine where you get to do a few activities like rock scaling, marking an open hole, putting straps on a load for lifting.
The Community Economic Development Fund (CEDF) wanted to produce a VR experience that would showcase northern Manitoba mining industry. The experience would be used for digital orientations and career exploration that would help educate high-school kids about the potential for a career in the mining industry.
BSD proposed a two-part plan that would include a 360-degree tour of the mine using our VRSafety virtual training platform. For the second part, we proposed a room-scale VR simulation that enabled students to interact in a virtual mine environment.
Northern Manitoba Sector Council, Hudbay Minerals, and Vale Canada also participated in this project.
The 360 portion of this project is built on our
VRSafety training platform, which can be viewed in a web browser or a VR headset. We built an app that launches VRSafety directly into Mining VR.
The 6-DoF portion of this project was built in Unity 3D for the Pico Interactive Neo 2 and Neo 3 standalone VR headsets.
Mining VR training provides students with an effective, immersive, and safe learning experience, preparing them for the challenges and demands of the mining industry. Mining VR training offers several benefits to students:
Overall, mining VR training provides students with an effective, immersive, and safe learning experience, preparing them for the challenges and demands of the mining industry.
This project forced us to learn a lot more about the features and limitations of Pico headsets, working with open XR, and supporting multiple headsets . We also had to focus on mobile XR optimization, and creating spacious scenes in a limited play space.
The biggest thing we learned, though, was we created a really unique workflow to go from 360 photos as reference for our art team using VRSafety to produce the reference materials for creating the 3D scenes. We reconstructed the mine and the PPE room in VR using VR.
Below is a taste of some of the immersive experiences Bit Space has developed.
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