Abstract: It is significant to study children’s fire escape education in the virtual reality. The existing fire escape educations for children mostly adopt the ways of watching books and videos, lacking vitality and interactivity. According to the psychological characteristics of children, the models for virtual fire scene and the virtual character were built using the 3Ds Max. Based on Virtools platform, a game style of children's indoor fire escape education system was designed, with the integration of human-computer interaction, voice, smoke, and animation demo. Users experience the fire escape by auditory, visual and virtual behavior, with controlling virtual character to escape from the virtual fire scene via keyboard or mouse. Experimental results show that the system can make children learn the knowledge of fire escape more interested and more firmly, and also has a good effect on the fire escape education.

Key words: fire escape, virtual reality, 3Ds Max, Virtools