Jarak VR: development of immersive VR simulation for safety vehicles’ gap training

The project is about the development of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation for candidates at driving school to learn about safety vehicles’ gap while driving. There are increase in number of deaths on road among Malaysian, high number of rear collision accidents on straight road and lack of interactive style for teaching method at driving school that become the motivation of this project. The objectives of this project are to identify the requirement, to design and to develop the development of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation for Safety Vehicles’ Gap Training. The scope for this project is focusing on candidates at driving school in Bukit Pasir, Muar, Johor on learning about keeping their vehicle’s gap safe on straight road through Immersive Virtual Reality technique which they will be placed into virtual world of driving a car. The candidate will be taught on two situations which are high speed or low speed of driving based on a technique called “Two or Four Second Rule”. The limitation for this project is the application only have been developed using 3D model, not a real-world environment view. The methodology chosen in this project is Rapid Application Development (RAD) because the application only focuses for a specific scope within short period of time. This project gives significant value to the potential driving candidates at driving school for them to learn about safety gap in a more interactive approach. Besides, driving school will experience the benefit of this project as it is offering interactive approach in teaching method. This gives the driving school competitive advantage as this method is not being used by other driving school. The results of this project show that the Immersive Virtual Reality gives better experience and user interactive to the participant in safety educational. The project will be future developed by using real-world environment such as a 360 Virtual Reality video and pedals to improve the user interaction for better experience.