Immersive Experiences in the Metaverse to Contrast Drunk Driving

This paper proposes a new solution for promoting safe driving and reducing accidents caused by drunk drivers. The scientific innovation of our work lies in the strong integration between virtual and physical environments, which allows users to experience strong emotions in simulated driving scenarios with alcohol impairments. To achieve this aim, we have implemented a Metaverse environment able to interact with multiple physical input and output devices. The virtual environment reproduces alcohol-related impairments, such as blurred vision, delayed response to commands and shaking in the event of an accident, also showing the tragic consequences of accidents during the experience. We have validated the developed solution by experimental measurement of both software performance and Quality of Experience (QoE) of volunteer users.