Cybersickness assessment framework(CSAF): An Open Source Repository for Standardized Cybersickness Experiments

Studies of cybersickness (CS) often require a significant investment in creating the primary VR environment and other experiment-related features. In addition, minor differences in VR content in independent studies may lead to opposite results. This motivates us to introduce a standardized CS assessment framework to facilitate the development of CS-related experiments. This paper describes the concept of the framework, the current progress of the technical implementation, and future goals.

1 Introduction

One of the major challenges facing cybersickness research is the lack of standardization in the development of virtual reality (VR) environments, locomotion styles, and reduction techniques. This leads to prolonged development cycles and inconsistencies across studies on the same topic. Furthermore, essential information such as translational and rotational speed/acceleration, and duration of acceleration is often missing from the literature, making it challenging to evaluate and compare results from different studies. Additionally, the VR content sources used in research papers (e.g., 360 videos or VR game source code) are rarely made publicly available, hindering replicability.