“Put your feet in open pit” - a WebXR Unity application for learning about the technological processes in the open pit mine
Radosław Pomykała, Artur Cybulski, Tadeusz Klatka, Michał Patyk, Julia Bonieckal, Maciej Kedzierski, Mateusz Henryk Sikora, Jakub Juszczak, Magdalena Igraś-Cybulska · 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) · 2022
In the mining industry, accessing the locations and observing processes for educational purposes can be problematic due to safety reasons or high cost of experiencing it in person. Immersive technologies, especially applied in an accessible and responsive design such as WebXR, have great potential to make such educational and training applications easy to access and effective for a wide audience. In this work-in-progress paper, we present the design process, the detailed production pipeline and the challenges we have met during the implementation of the WebXR interactive environment based on the 360 video of the mining technologies pipeline captured at the open pit mine.