Seaity is an application developed by the Seaity Capstone Group at the United States Coast Guard Academy. It is intended to assist cadets at reviewing the Rules of the Road for vessels on water by using virtual reality.
While underway, graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy who become cutterman are expected to make quick decisions in line with the Rules of the Road (ROTR) during high stress evolutions. Seaity’s goal is to bring visually realistic waterway scenarios to cadets in the classroom, to produce future officers who are more comfortable, confident, and knowledgeable on the water. Seaity has achieved this goal by developing a virtual reality application that runs on the Meta Quest 2, an inexpensive and easy to use stand-alone virtual reality headset. In the application, users can choose from a variety of ROTR scenarios and work through them in virtual reality. As of right now the product is rather rudimentary, the user answers questions and is then shown the correct action of the vessel, but this can be greatly expanded upon in the future. Future versions may contain more scenarios to choose from, give the user more control over the scenario, combine multiple scenarios into one complex one, and give end users the ability to create unique levels from within the app.