Cybersickness Prevention and Mitigation in Virtual Reality for Healthy Volunteers
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
Summary
Background: People use virtual reality (VR) technology to play games, socialize, work, or receive medical care. Some people have "cybersickness" after using VR. Cybersickness is similar to motion sickness. Symptoms include eye strain, nausea, dizziness, or headache. The symptoms are usually mild and go away after the person stops using VR. New software called Motion Reset is being designed to reduce symptoms of cybersickness during VR use. Objective: To see if Motion Reset software can reduce cybersickness in people using VR. Eligibility: Healthy adults aged 18 to 60 years. Design: Participants will have 1 clinic visit that will last about 1 hour. They will answer questions about how they are feeling. They will learn how to use the VR headset and the handheld game controllers. The study will be broken into 2 parts. For the first part, participants will be assigned to 1 of 3 groups: Group 1 will participate in a VR experience designed to prevent cybersickness. They will view screens and move around while they press buttons on a controller. Group 2 will participate in a VR experience that is not designed to prevent cybersickness. They will view screens and move around while they press buttons on a controller. Group 3 will have no VR experience. Participants will complete 2 questionnaires about their experiences in the first part of the study. For the second part, all participants will spend up to 20 minutes playing a commercial VR game called Jurassic World Aftermath. Every few minutes, they will be asked if they are experiencing discomfort. After playing the game, participants will complete 12 questionnaires about their experience....
Description
Study Description: This study involves investigation of a virtual reality (VR) experience intended to prevent cybersickness (similar to motion sickness and eye strain) from use of virtual reality equipment. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three arms: active intervention, placebo (a similar VR experience that does not engage sensory systems purported to underlie efficacy), or a notreatment control. Following the intervention, participants will play a VRbased game used in previous research to slowly induce moderate levels of cybersickness in some individuals. During play, we wi…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–60 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
* INCLUSION CRITERIA: In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria: * Provision of signed and dated informed consent form * Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study * Aged 18-60 * Ability to read, speak, and write in English * Normal or corrected-to-normal hearing * Normal vision or corrected-to-normal without use of glasses. Contact lenses for corrective purposes are acceptable. Ability to read, speak and write in English is a requirement because the VR-based study ma…
Interventions
- BehavioralMotion Reset
virtual reality-based experiential, sensory intervention
- BehavioralPlacebo
virtual reality-based experiential, sensory experience without intervention
Locations (2)
- Iowa State UniversityAmes, Iowa
- National Institutes of Health Clinical CenterBethesda, Maryland