Gamified Sustainability: Virtual Reality Escape Room for Recycling Education

We present a virtual reality (VR) escape room game to support recycling education, which is played in immersive VR utilizing a head-mounted display (HMD). By leveraging the immersive capabilities of VR and the motivational aspects of gamification, the developed game combines interactive recycling tasks with engaging escape room mechanics to build awareness and skills in waste sorting. Set in a wilderness log cabin, players sort virtual waste into appropriate bins, receiving immediate feedback to reinforce learning. This research contributes to the growing body of work in HCI on environmental education, and provides background for future studies on gamified VR experiences for sustainability education.