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consequences of their responses. It was first available to NUS staff and students as a learning module. These scenarios aim to impart individuals with the requisite knowledge and skills, instilling them with confidence and enhancing empathy to encourage them to step forward to render aid. The app’s unique approach of offering a highly interactive virtual 3D environment through Meta Quest 2 VR devices has eliminated real-life constraints and hazards, allowing users to explore various outcomes without consequences.

Through the creation of an immersive virtual reality (VR) with realistic local scenes, users are immersed in a first-person perspective as a responder in two simulated scenarios: 1. Performing CPR and using an AED on a collapsed victim before paramedics arrive and 2. Intervention in a mental health crisis of a peer and encouraging peer-to-peer support. The meticulously developed, highly interactive and replayable scenarios allow participants to embody the main avatar where they experience the emotions as a first responder and the

NUS received the Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC) 2023 and was invited by IMDA to showcase the Good Citizen VR app at the Digital for Life Festival Roadshows, along with over 120 esteemed partners in late October and early November this year.

The future project plans include the design and development of additional scenarios, focusing on diverse emergencies. These scenarios include responding to: • a trauma scene of a bleeding person with epistaxis and wounds, • a person having seizures, • a choking person, and • a person with severe allergic reaction. In 2024, we will have many more XR (Extended Reality) projects coming up, including our very first VR solution in NUS Metaverse!