The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the participants’awareness
of disaster prevention, such as disaster risk perception and disaster prevention behavioral
intention, improve when they experience the VR disaster experience in a familiar environment
like their own room. In the experiment, 4 participants were asked to take
pictures of the environment in which the participant normally lives and to experience
virtual earthquake and fire in the familiar environment created from the pictures and
in the non-familiar environment. While it was found that experiencing VR disaster in
a familiar environment may increase awareness of disaster prevention, it also suggested
the possibility that people are more likely to notice unnatural places in the experience
because they usually see the environment repeatedly.