The Development Of Immersive Fire Training System Based On Unity Engine

As we all know, the fire is one of the most serious disaster, which is threatening to the human life. According to the statistical data from the Fire Department of Ministry of Public Security, in 2013, there were about 388,000 fires in China. The importance of the propagation of firefighting knowledge and the training of fire escaping skills should always be taken close attention, especially the training to the minors. However, constrained by the space, safety and finance, the opportunities of real-world training are very limited.In this paper, we present an immersive fire training system based on Unity engine to help teens realize the potential fire hazards and learn the basic skills to escape. The system is featured by gesture interaction using Microsoft Kinect and large screen display environment. It includes three modules, namely animation, quizzes, and a 3D serious game. In order to make teaching easy to understand and vivid, we make a series of animated short films. Each of them tells a story about the correct response to fire. The second module is multiple-choice quizzes from a database of two hundred questions which are designed according to the knowledge provided by National Fire Protection Association. In the third mod-ule, a 3D scenes of fire-prone places (home) is designed for the serious game. The trainees’ mission is to find out the hazards in these places. The user interaction is realized based on the gesture recognized by a Microsoft Kinect sensor, which is placed in the middle and right below the bottom of the screen. With the help of depth data offered by Kinect, we are able to achieve the gesture control method to our system.One hundred Chinese children are invited as the trainees to participate the test of our training system. We equally divide them into 10 groups. The results show that our training system significantly increased the escaping fire skills of children.