Exploring the Effects of Multimedia Design in a Life English VR Serious Game

With the emerging development of virtual reality (VR), a VR head-mounted device (HMD) has been applied in many fields. However, there are few studies discussing the multimedia design of VR in the educational context. This research developed a life English VR serious game played with VR HMD, named VR Life English (VRLE). Two playing modes were designed to explore the effects of multimedia design: one is played with voice and captions, and the other has voice only. In the current status of this study, the proposed VRLE has finished development and continues to examine the learning performance, immersion, and emotion of students. In the future, junior high school students from two classes in Taiwan will join the continuous experiment, and a mixed research will be conducted to investigate the effects of multimedia design in VR serious game.