“Put your feet in open pit” - a WebXR Unity application for learning about the technological processes in the open pit mine

In the mining industry, accessing the locations and observing processes for educational purposes can be problematic due to safety reasons or high cost of experiencing it in person. Immersive technologies, especially applied in an accessible and responsive design such as WebXR, have great potential to make such educational and training applications easy to access and effective for a wide audience. In this work-in-progress paper, we present the design process, the detailed production pipeline and the challenges we have met during the implementation of the WebXR interactive environment based on the 360 video of the mining technologies pipeline captured at the open pit mine.