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Sick in the Car, Sick in VR? Understanding How Real-World Susceptibility to Dizziness, Nausea, and Eye Strain Influences VR Motion Sickness

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A substantial number of Virtual Reality (VR) users (studies report 30–80%) suffer from cyber sickness, a negative experience caused by a sensory mismatch of real and virtual stimuli. Prior research proposed different mitigation strategies. Yet, it remains unclear how effectively they work, considering users’ real-world susceptibility to motion sickness. We present a lab experiment, in which we assessed 146 users’ real-world susceptibility to nausea, dizziness, and eye strain before exposing them to a roller coaster ride with low or high visual resolution. We found that nausea is significantly lower for higher resolution but real-world motion susceptibility has a much stronger effect on dizziness, nausea, and eye strain. Our work points towards a need for research investigating the effectiveness of approaches to mitigate motion sickness so as not to include them from VR use and access to the metaverse.

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Hein, O., Rauschnabel, P., Hassib, M., Alt, F. (2023). Sick in the Car, Sick in VR? Understanding How Real-World Susceptibility to Dizziness, Nausea, and Eye Strain Influences VR Motion Sickness. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14143. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_30

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