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A Pilot Study Examining the Unexpected Vection Hypothesis of Cybersickness.

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VRST '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Article No.: 49, Pages 1 - 2

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The relationship between vection (illusory self-motion) and cybersickness is complex. This pilot study examined whether only unexpected vection provokes sickness during head-mounted display (HMD) based virtual reality (VR). 20 participants ran through the tutorial of Mission: ISS (an HMD VR app) until they experienced notable sickness (maximum exposure was 15 minutes). We found that: 1) cybersickness was positively related to vection strength; and 2) cybersickness appeared to be more likely to occur during unexpected vection. Given the implications of these findings, future studies should attempt to replicate them and confirm the unexpected vection hypothesis with larger sample sizes and rigorous experimental designs.

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VRST '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

December 2021

563 pages

ISBN:9781450390927

DOI:10.1145/3489849

Editors:
Yuichi Itoh
Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
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Kazuki Takashima
Tohoku University, Japan
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Parinya Punpongsanon
Osaka University, Japan
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Misha Sra
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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Kazuyuki Fujita
Tohoku University, Japan
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Shigeo Yoshida
The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Tham Piumsomboon
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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