Hamed-Ahmed, Musaab H.Fraga-Lamas, PaulaFernández-Caramés, Tiago M.2024-10-312024-10-312024Musaab H. Hamed-Ahmed, Paula Fraga-Lamas, and Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés. 2024. Towards the Industrial Metaverse: A Game-Based VR Application for Fire Drill and Evacuation Training for Ships and Shipbuilding. In Proceedings of the 29th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 11, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665318.3678229http://hdl.handle.net/2183/39903Presented at: Web3D '24: Proceedings of the 29th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology Article, September 25–27, 2024, Guimarães, PortugalThis is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in https://doi.org/10.1145/3665318.3678229.[Abstract]: This paper details the creation of a novel Virtual Reality-based application for the Industrial Metaverse aimed at shipboard fire emergency training for fire drill and evacuation, aligned with the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention requirements. Specifically, the application includes gamified scenarios with different levels (e.g., varying fire intensities in engine rooms and galleys). The paper details comprehensively the VR development while providing a holistic overview and practical guidelines. Thus, it can guide practitioners, developers and future researchers to shape the next generation of Industrial Metaverse applications for the shipbuilding industry. Moreover, the paper includes the results of a preliminary user evaluation aimed at quantifying user decision-making and risk assessment skills. The presented results of the experiments provide insights into user performance and allow for pointing out at different future challenges.eng© 2024 Owner/Author | ACM. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.Industrial metaverseVirtual realityEmergency trainingShipbuildingconference outputopen access10.1145/3665318.3678229