GMU:CyberSpace/Cybersickness

"The problem of cybersickness can prevent the healthy growth of VR technology !"

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/19/4636508/oculus-rift-is-working-to-solve-simulator-sickness

• staircases
• backwards or quick lateral movement
• minimal shifts to the horizon line
• head bobbing

Over 80% of individuals exposed to VR simulations of 20 minutes reported increases in sickness symptoms

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GENERAL

reverse to motionsickness (Seekrankheit) not an illness: the ones, who don't have it suffer by a disfunction

1. nausea (vomiting, dizziness)
2. visual symptoms (eyestrains, blurred vision, headaches)
3. disorientation (vertigo, imbalance)

long list, very subjectiv: general discomfort, difficulties in the ability to focus, increased salivation, excessive sweating, feelings of heaviness in the head region, stomach awareness, panic

virtual helmet: closeness of the screen, stereoscopic

HUMAN SENSOR SYSTEM

VESTIBULAR SYSTEM

• Balance and control
• Gaze stabilization

VISUAL SYSTEM

• co-ordination

PROPRIOCEPTIVE SYSTEM

THEORY

TIPPS

• helmet comfort
• framerate
• beginning and ending
• visual stress (sudden stops)
• interaction (relation, frames, horizont, own body)