Virtual Reality Sickness: A Review of Causes and Measurements

In virtual reality (VR), users can experience symptoms of motion sickness, which is referred to as VR sickness or cybersickness. The symptoms include but are not limited to eye fatigue, disorientation, and nausea, which can impair the VR experience of users. Though many studies have attempted to red...

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Published inInternational journal of human-computer interaction Vol. 36; no. 17; pp. 1658 - 1682
Main Authors Chang, Eunhee, Kim, Hyun Taek, Yoo, Byounghyun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norwood Taylor & Francis 20.10.2020
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
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Disorientation
Fatigue
Human factors
Motion sickness
Nausea
Virtual reality
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Summary:In virtual reality (VR), users can experience symptoms of motion sickness, which is referred to as VR sickness or cybersickness. The symptoms include but are not limited to eye fatigue, disorientation, and nausea, which can impair the VR experience of users. Though many studies have attempted to reduce the discomfort, they produced conflicting results with varying degrees of VR sickness. In particular, a visually improved VR does not necessarily result in decreased VR sickness. To understand these unexpected results, we surveyed the causes of VR sickness and measurement of symptoms. We reorganized the causes of the VR sickness into three major factors (hardware, content, and human factors) and investigated the sub-component of each factor. We then surveyed frequently used measures of VR sickness, both subjective and objective approaches. We also investigated emerging approaches for reducing VR sickness and proposed a multimodal fidelity hypothesis to give an insight into future studies.
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ISSN:1044-7318
1532-7590
1044-7318
DOI:10.1080/10447318.2020.1778351