What Causes the Dizziness: A Cybersickness Study in VR Environment

Virtual Reality (VR) is a new technology that emerged and rapidly developed in the 20th century. Its scenes have an extremely high degree of realism, providing users with an immersive sensory experience. However, many users may experience cybersickness, which can cause symptoms such as dizziness and nausea, severely affecting users’ VR experience and greatly limiting the development and popularity of VR. Based on previous research results, we find a lack of research on cybersickness related to movement patterns and light pollution scenes. Therefore, this paper mainly discusses the following two questions: Do different movement patterns and light pollution scenes cause users to experience cybersickness? What is the correlation between human factors and the degree of cybersickness in movement patterns and light pollution scenes? In response to the questions, a total of 41 participants were recruited for the research. The results show that compared to straight and straight with sudden brakes, the pattern of straight with turns makes users have a higher degree of cybersickness. In white light scenes, people tend to feel dizzier at a moderate level. While in colored scenes, there exists a linear relationship between light intensity and cybersickness. Moreover, user characteristics also have an impact on cybersickness. It shows that individuals who have experienced motion sickness during driving are more likely to experience dizziness during movement scenes in VR. People who pay more attention to environmental light in daily life tend to feel dizzier in white light scenes in VR and those who consider light pollution in their place of residence to be serious also tend to experience higher levels of cybersickness in light pollution scenes.