Multisensory Interactions in Virtual Reality: Optic Flow Reduces Vestibular Sensitivity, but Only for Congruent Planes of Motion

Gallagher, Maria; Choi, Reno; Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella

doi:10.1163/22134808-20201487

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“…At the same time, evidence that vection is associated with cybersickness is weak and inconclusive in Palmisano et al's paper (Palmisano et al 2017). Gallagher et al reported significant proof that vection in VR could change vestibular processing and may account for the after-effects (Gallagher et al 2020). Risi and Palmisano identified in their study that participants tend to report a higher level of cybersickness when experiencing stronger vection (Risi and Palmisano 2019).…”

Section: Visual Content Relatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

2022

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Cybersickness still poses a significant challenge to the widespread usage of virtual reality, leading to different levels of discomfort and potentially breaking the immersive experience. Researchers have attempted to discover the possible fundamental causes of cybersickness for years. Despite the longstanding interest in the research field, inconsistent results have been drawn on the contributing factors and solutions to combating cybersickness. Moreover, little attention has been paid to individual susceptibility. A consolidated explanation remains under development, requiring more empirical studies with robust and reproducible methodologies. This review presents an integrated survey connecting the findings from previous review papers and the state of the art involving empirical studies and participants. A literature review is then presented, focusing on the practical studies of different contributing factors, the pros and cons of measurements, profiles of cybersickness, and solutions to reduce this phenomenon. Our findings suggest a lack of considerations regarding user susceptibility and gender balance in between groups studies. In addition, incongruities among empirical findings raised concerns. We conclude by suggesting points of insights for future empirical investigations.

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Section: Visual Content Relatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

2022

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“…Twenty-five healthy right-handed participants volunteered in the study (19 women; mean age= 22.16 years, SD = 7.12 years). The sample size was estimated a priori based on similar experimental procedures (Gallagher et al, 2019;Gallagher et al, 2020), set in advance of testing and was also used as data-collection stopping rule. Participants with a history of neurological, psychiatric, vestibular or auditory disorders were excluded.…”

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“…For instance, using a rotational chair and timely coupling of physical movement with VR effectively reduced cybersickness symptoms (Ng et al, 2020). Similarly, cybersickness has been shown to improve with Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) to artificially mimic vestibular cues in VR (Gallagher et al, 2020;Weech et al, 2018).…”

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Reducing Cybersickness in 360-Degree Virtual Reality

Arshad

Mello²,

Ender³

et al. 2021

Multisens. Res.

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Despite the technological advancements in Virtual Reality (VR), users are constantly combating feelings of nausea and disorientation, the so-called cybersickness. Cybersickness symptoms cause severe discomfort and hinder the immersive VR experience. Here we investigated cybersickness in 360-degree head-mounted display VR. In traditional 360-degree VR experiences, translational movement in the real world is not reflected in the virtual world, and therefore self-motion information is not corroborated by matching visual and vestibular cues, which may trigger symptoms of cybersickness. We evaluated whether a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) software designed to supplement the 360-degree VR experience with artificial six-degrees-of-freedom motion may reduce cybersickness. Explicit (simulator sickness questionnaire and Fast Motion Sickness (FMS) rating) and implicit (heart rate) measurements were used to evaluate cybersickness symptoms during and after 360-degree VR exposure. Simulator sickness scores showed a significant reduction in feelings of nausea during the AI-supplemented six-degrees-of-freedom motion VR compared to traditional 360-degree VR. However, six-degrees-of-freedom motion VR did not reduce oculomotor or disorientation measures of sickness. No changes were observed in FMS and heart rate measures. Improving the congruency between visual and vestibular cues in 360-degree VR, as provided by the AI-supplemented six-degrees-of-freedom motion system considered, is essential for a more engaging, immersive and safe VR experience, which is critical for educational, cultural and entertainment applications.

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“…The switch of the frame can adjust the height of the seat. This is not a real cabin, but you can already feel very close to the cabin experience [20]. Knowledge acquisition and information acquisition tools based on wireless virtual reality technology will not only improve users' digital abilities and literacy but will also trigger changes in reading forms.…”

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Application of Wireless Virtual Reality Perception and Simulation Technology in Film and Television Animation

Lei

Kim

2021

Journal of Sensors

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Wireless virtual reality integrated multidisciplinary technology, combined with related industries and fields, has changed the way of human-computer interaction and opened up a new field of user experience. In recent years, with the rapid improvement of computer technology and hardware conditions, interactive technology has developed rapidly. The existing wireless virtual reality interactive system is too single and cannot be used in multiple environments. The original system requires a large number of sensor equipment, the cost is high, and the traditional perception technology is too restrictive and cannot realize human-computer interaction more naturally. This paper proposes a dual intention perception algorithm based on the fusion of touch (obtained by experimental simulation equipment), hearing, and vision. The algorithm can perceive the user’s operation intention through the user’s natural behavior and can identify the user’s two intentions at the same time. This paper proposes a navigational interactive mode, which provides users with multimodal intelligent navigation through intelligent perception of user intent and experimental progress. We determine the impact model of the interactive system effect evaluation and analyze its effect evaluation strategy in depth and then further quantify the indicators under the four effect dimensions of information perception, artistic reflection, social entertainment, and aesthetic experience. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used to carry out relevant research on effect evaluation, usability test, and questionnaire interview. The experimental results show that this interactive system has better entertainment effects than other forms of film and television animation, but still needs to pay attention to and strengthen the construction and embodiment of film and television animation content, as well as the optimization and perfection of the fault-tolerant mechanism in the design process.

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Multisensory Interactions in Virtual Reality: Optic Flow Reduces Vestibular Sensitivity, but Only for Congruent Planes of Motion

Cited by 18 publications

References 61 publications

A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

Reducing Cybersickness in 360-Degree Virtual Reality

Application of Wireless Virtual Reality Perception and Simulation Technology in Film and Television Animation

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