Habituation to the side effects of immersion in a virtual environment
When people are exposed to movement within a virtual environment, they experience symptoms, such as nausea, which are similar to those of motion sickness. True motion sickness is reduced or eliminated by repeated exposure to motion, and we examined whether people also habituate to the visual appearance of motion. Nineteen subjects used a non-tracked Head-Mounted Display (a personal display system) to view the game Wipeout for 20min on five consecutive days. On average, they reported significantly less nausea and a delayed nausea onset on the fifth day compared with that reported on the first day. Thus, we conclude that habituation did occur.
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