Kookmin University (President Jung Seung-ryul) is producing and using 'VR content for automotive skills training' as part of the Ministry of Education's Advanced Field Innovation Convergence University Project (hereinafter referred to as the COSS Project) Future Automobile Consortium.

Daelim University and Kookmin University, the host university for the 'Future Automobile' field of the 'Advanced Field Innovation Convergence University' project hosted by the Ministry of Education, participated in the joint development. Kookmin University developed the content with Parts DB, a company specializing in IT convergence technology in the defense, manufacturing, and plant industries, over a period of about eight months.

The purpose of developing this content is to incorporate virtual reality (VR) technology into the limited practice environment of automotive function training on the theme of electric vehicles, thereby producing educational effects such as improving users' understanding of equipment and their ability to take on-site measures. Kookmin University, the host university of the project, has created VR content with Daelim University on the topics of “wearing and installing safety equipment,” “precautions for electric vehicle systems,” “key components,” “operating principles,” “high-voltage disconnection procedures,” and “disassembly/assembly procedures.”

With this development, students at universities participating in the COSS project's Future Automobile Consortium will be able to experience and apply the VR content to their studies through standardization courses such as “Automobile Function Training,” and Kookmin University plans to expand and share the content with other universities and general students in line with the purpose of the COSS project.

Professor Shin Sung-hwan, Dean of the College of Automotive Convergence and Head of the Future Automotive Business Division at Kookmin University, said, “I am pleased that the creation of VR content related to the disassembly and assembly of automobiles has expanded the base for training future automotive talent, and we will continue to develop educational content for future automobiles incorporating virtual reality technology to focus on training practical talent.”