Experimental study on the effect of vibration to delay the VR sickness

Abstract

We verified the effect of vibratory stimuli on the mitigation of VR sickness. We applied periodic vibrations to the seat of a chair and the back of a user's head while the user watched a roller coaster video and compared the SSQ results and the user's subjective assessment of sickness during each period with those obtained when no vibrations were applied. While there was no noticeable difference in the SSQ results, the number of periods during which the user did not feel sick was significantly higher when vibrations were applied to the back of the user's head than under the other conditions. The study has proved that even vibrations not linked with a video can delay VR sickness if they are applied to the back of the head.