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Virtual Reality Games Can Improve Memory Retention of Safety Instructions
vrml writes: Using a virtual reality (VR) headset to experience risky situations as immersive 3D games improves memory retention of passenger safety instructions, according to research published in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and illustrated by a YouTube video. Researchers recruited occasional flyers: half of them played a VR gaming experience of an airliner water landing and evacuation, while the other half studied a real airline safety card. After one week, passengers who had studied the safety card suffered a significant loss of knowledge, while passengers who had played the VR game fully retained the safety knowledge gained. The research group has now made available its emergency water landing experience also for the Oculus Rift.
Oddly enough, I know someone who works in this sector ... crash simulators for helicopters in the event they make a water landing.
While this might be good for passengers to know more than the safety card ... you want to be sure your actual flight crew have had real training.
Because when it's dark, chaotic, and water is everywhere you want to be damned sure the people responsible have done these steps under something resembling real circumstances, and not a frigging video game.
So, if you work in the offshore oil industry, for instance, you MUST take this training. And your video game just isn't gonna cut it.
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A hangglider instructor once told me the exact opposite. He experimented with 3d simulators and abandoned them because after the use of the simulator, the pupils took twice as long to learn how to fly as the pupils who never used the simulator.
That sounds suspicious as they are used extensively by the airline industry.
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It's probably easier to simulate the practical environment and mechanics of an aircraft than a hang glider, in which you're directing the flight controls with your body instead of a mechanical flight stick or yoke. Unless you've got a virtual hang glider controller hooked up in a large virtual environment, I can see how it might not work so well. On the contrary, you can create a reasonable flight simulator experience with a PC and some reasonably inexpensive accessories.
In nearly all other forms of flight, simulators are used extensively to good effect, so I'd be careful about generalizing the lessons learned by one hang-gliding instructor.
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They need a study to say that a 3d video + sound experience is usually better than a plastic card?
Yes. That's how science works. You can't get away with just saying "Oh, well, it's probably true," and use that as the basis for your paper.
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"The safety lecture continues... the next thing they do, they tell you to locate your nearest emergency exit... I do this immediately! I locate my nearest emergency exit and then I plan my route.
"You have to plan your route; it’s not always a straight line is it? Sometimes, there’s a REALLY BIG FAT FUCK SITTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!!! Well, you know you’ll never get over him! I look around for women and children, midgets and dwarves, cripples, war widows, paralyzed veterans, people with broken legs, anybody who looks like they can’t move too well. The emotionally disturbed come in very handy at a time like this. You might have to go out of your way to find these people but you’ll get out of the plane a lot goddamn quicker, believe me!
"I say 'let's see... I go around the fat fuck, step on the widow's head, push those children out of the way, knock down the paralyzed midget, and get out of the plane where I can HELP OTHERS!'
"I can be of no help to anyone if I’m lying unconscious in the aisle with some big cocksucker standing on my head! I must get out of the plane, go to a nearby farmhouse, have a Dr. Pepper, and call the police!"
There was the pilot who pulled off the amazing landing in the Hudson a few years ago. He was a rock star.
But, yes, I used to know people who did aircraft maintenance ... and almost universally they sneered at the notion of a "water landing". The floating seat cushions were affectionately referred to as "crash debris locators".
I think more of Swissair 111 when I think "water landing". As a general rule, it's not considered something you'd want to be around for.
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