Abstract:

Climate change produces highly destructive natural phenomena, for example, in the Cordillera Blanca Perú, 32 catastrophic avalanches have been reported since 1702. (On May 31, 1970, a flood in Yungay caused the death of 7000 people in 5 minutes.

Governments try measures for disaster risk reduction through prevention plans that are finished in training campaigns: however the evidence shows that people continue to carry out their activities in high-risk areas. On the other hand, it has been seen that the survivors of these catastrophes are highly sensitive and highly responsive people, since they do not carry out their activities in risk areas, and they are alert to any intense rain, earthquake or intense noise. This due to the sense of danger that they have developed as a result of the traumatic experience lived.

This research proposed the use of virtual reality (VR) to simulate an avalanche and make life the experience of a virtual disaster, a real scene was developed with photogrammetry with a simulation of a debris flow, the user must navigate to get to a safe place.

The development of preventive capacities was qualitatively evaluated. The results show an improvement in the knowledge of the dangers and awareness of the risks of a natural phenomenon. Additionally, the trainings were highly immersive and attractive experiences for the test groups, in many experiments we have a lot of volunteers testing the virtual environment specially students.

Keywords:

Virtual Reality, Natural Risk, Training, Cordillera Blanca.