Oita Prefectural Sakura no Mori Special Needs High School in Oita City used augmented reality in a disaster-prevention lesson on 9 October 2026. About 30 third-year students took part in the outreach lecture, which covered how to evacuate in a disaster and what life in an evacuation shelter involves.
Using AR that overlays images on the real space around them, students experienced extinguishing a fire and evacuating safely through smoke. The lesson aimed to build the ability to protect oneself in a disaster.
The lecture also included a shelter-planning activity, in which students worked around a table with a floor plan to consider how to use limited space in an evacuation shelter.
