Virtual Reality Sickness: A Review of Causes and Measurements

In virtual reality (VR), users can experience symptoms of motion sickness, which is referred to as VR sickness or cybersickness. The symptoms include but are not limited to eye fatigue, disorientation, and nausea, which can impair the VR experience of users. Though many studies have attempted to reduce the discomfort, they produced conflicting results with varying degrees of VR sickness. In particular, a visually improved VR does not necessarily result in decreased VR sickness. To understand these unexpected results, we surveyed the causes of VR sickness and measurement of symptoms. We reorganized the causes of the VR sickness into three major factors (hardware, content, and human factors) and investigated the…

• MO
  Ministry of Education
• KI
  Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  Award: Grant No. 2E29450
• NR
  National Research Foundation of Korea

  Award: NRF-2017S1A5A2A01024292 and NRF-2019R1A6A3A01096295
• NR
  National Research Council of Science and Technology

  Award: No. CMP-16-01-KIST