Title: Visual safety in the meta-universe using VR technology

Authors: Shan Wu; Hongjun Chen; Ningning Wei

Addresses: College of Arts and Design, Hechi University, Yizhou 546300, Guangxi, China ' College of Arts and Design, Hechi University, Yizhou 546300, Guangxi, China ' College of Arts and Design, Hechi University, Yizhou 546300, Guangxi, China

Abstract: This work proposes the VR-based visual safety model (VR-VSM) with a meta-universe, which creates highly realistic virtual worlds that can be used within the construction ecosystem to enhance workers' hazard recognition skills. The proposed VR-VSM incorporates a meta-universe eye-tracker to identify potential dangers on digital building sites, whilst a brainwave sensor captures the worker's movement skills. Data collected from the eye tracker and brain sensor may be analysed and classified to reveal patterns in eye movement and brain processes, which may result in the proposed VR-VSM. The offered approach may elevate existing safety training programs to a whole new level by offering distinct comments to employees. The experimental results show the VR-VSM achieves a high recognition rate of 97.3%, a performance ratio of 98.5%, an accuracy ratio of 97.1% and a lower error rate of 27.2% compared with other methods.

Keywords: virtual reality; VR; meta-universe; construction; visual safety.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2025.149457

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2025 Vol.50 No.2, pp.61 - 72

Received: 22 Jul 2024
Accepted: 14 Oct 2024
Published online: 01 Nov 2025 *

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