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Emergency Management • Community Resilience • Community Preparedness
FireReady VR, developed with Clemson VRN, uses immersive wildfire scenarios to show how home preparedness choices affect risk and motivate real-world action.
Challenge
Wildfire risk is rising, but many households still ignore or delay basic preparedness steps like creating defensible space and hardening their homes. Checklists and brochures are easy to skim and forget, and they rarely make the consequences of inaction feel personal.
Approach
We focused on "The Experience of Consequence." Instead of a checklist, we built a narrative where users make choices about creating defensible space ("the goods" vs "the bads") and then experience a visceral, high-intensity wildfire event based on those choices.
Features
• Immersive community-scale wildfire scenario
• Side-by-side comparison of prepared vs. unprepared homes
• High-fidelity fire, smoke, and environmental effects
• Narrative structure for education and emotional engagement
• Designed as a translational research tool for Clemson VRN
• Configurable for use in workshops, outreach events, and studies
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