Software Techniques to Reduce Cybersickness Among Users of Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

Choroś, Kazimierz; Nippe, Piotr

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14799-0_55

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“…The discomfort felt by users in VR varies according to the characteristics of the hardware (Freiwald, Katzakis & Steinicke, 2018), the software (Jung, Cho, Choi & Choi, 2017;Porcino, Trevisan & Clua, 2019), the type of task (Park, Choi, Kim & Kim, 2005), but also the individual (Risi & Palmisano, 2019). It is therefore important in the design of ideation tools to follow good practices to design technologies that will minimize cybersickness (Porcino et al, 2017;Choroś & Nippe, 2019) and thus maximize the number of ideas generated by users.…”

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CRUX: a creativity and user experience model

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The field of Virtual Reality has been developing at a steady pace, and VR is finding new uses as a support for creative tasks. The objective of this study is to propose a theoretical model describing the links between user experience and creativity. Pre-existing theoretical links have been identified in relevant scientific literature. Two experiments were then conducted in order to identify new links and replicate results. These experiments involved respectively 76 and 42 participants who individually performed a task requiring divergent creativity using virtual reality drawing tools. The results indicate that cybersickness leads to a decrease in fluency, i.e. the number of ideas generated, but also shades the links between flow and the relevance of the ideas generated. On the basis of this result, we propose the CRUX model to lead to recommendations for the design of tools and simulations to support divergent creativity.

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“…We focused on three techniques that have been widely discussed and applied: field of view reduction, depth of field blurring, and fixed rest frames. Other methods, such as adding visual path [Luks and Liarokapis 2019], applying dot effect [Buhler et al 2018], or changing the textures of VEs [Choroś and Nippe 2019], blurring with the aid of deep learning [Nie et al 2020], have not been examined thoroughly or faced difficulties in wide adoption. Table 1 provides a brief summary of the methods that are compared in our study.…”

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“…Prior studies have shown positive effects of restricting the Field of View (FOV) on lowering VR sickness [Adhanom et al 2020;Al Zayer et al 2019;Choroś and Nippe 2019;Fernandes and Feiner 2016;Lin et al 2002;Magaki and Vallance 2017]. The sense of self-motion can be decreased by restricting the display's FOV, which according to the sensory conflict theory can help avoid conflicts of senses, thereby helping to minimize sickness [Arthur 2000].…”

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“…On the other hand, prior studies have explored and applied different VR sickness mitigation methods by adding visual effects or elements to VEs to help alleviate the effects of VR sickness. Manipulating the Field of View (FOV) is one well-known method (e.g., [Adhanom et al 2020;Al Zayer et al 2019;Arthur 2000;Choroś and Nippe 2019;Fernandes and Feiner 2016;Lin et al 2002;Norouzi et al 2018]). FOV refers to the horizontal and vertical angular dimensions of the display [Pausch et al 1992] and reducing it can increase viewing comfort.…”

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“…Blurring can alleviate the accommodationconvergence visual conflict between objects of different distances to decrease visual discomfort. Additionally, some studies have found that providing a rest frame, a fixed, constant visual element in the display (such as a virtual nose [Choroś and Nippe 2019;Lincoln 2015;Magaki and Vallance 2017;Wienrich et al 2018] or a target reticule [Clarke et al 2016] in VEs), can help minimize VR sickness. A rest frame allows users to focus their gaze on it to reduce the incidence of visual information conflicts while moving virtually but not physically [Prothero and Parker 2003].…”

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Virtual Reality Sickness Mitigation Methods: A Comparative Study in a Racing Game

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Using virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) can induce VR sickness. VR sickness can cause strong discomfort, decrease users' presence and enjoyment, especially in games, shorten the duration of the VR experience, and can even pose health risks. Previous research has explored different VR sickness mitigation methods by adding visual effects or elements. Field of View (FOV) reduction, Depth of Field (DOF) blurring, and adding a rest frame into the virtual environment are examples of such methods. Although useful in some cases, they might result in information loss. This research is the first to compare VR sickness, presence, workload to complete a search task, and information loss of these three VR sickness mitigation methods in a racing game with two levels of control. To do this, we conducted a mixed factorial user study (N = 32) with degree of control as the between-subjects factor and the VR sickness mitigation techniques as the within-subjects factor. Participants were required to find targets with three difficulty levels while steering or not steering a car in a virtual environment. Our results show that there are no significant differences in VR sickness, presence and workload among these techniques under two levels of control in our VR racing game. We also found that changing FOV dynamically or using DOF blur effects would result in information loss while adding a target reticule as a rest frame would not.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → User studies; Virtual reality.

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