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Virtual and augmented reality-based devices have been proposed for a range of assessment and treatment tasks, but how well are they accepted by clinicians and their patients? To investigate this question a prototype VR-based tool was developed for vestibular damage assessment and treatment. Designed to be used primarily within an in-person clinical setting, this tool was developed with the long-te...Show More
Virtual reality displays introduce spatial distortions that are very hard to correct because of the difficulty of precisely modelling the camera from the nodal point of each eye. How significant are these distortions for spatial perception in virtual reality? In this study, we used a helmet-mounted display and a mechanical head tracker to investigate the tolerance to errors between head motions an...Show More
To enhance presence, facilitate sensory motor performance, and avoid disorientation or nausea, virtual-reality applications require the perception of a stable environment. End-end tracking latency (display lag) degrades this illusion of stability and has been identified as a major fault of existing virtual-environment systems. Oscillopsia refers to the perception that the visual world appears to s...
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Although technologies such as head-mounted displays and CAVEs can be used to provide large immersive visual displays within small physical spaces, it is difficult to provide virtual environments which are as large physically as they are visually. A fundamental problem is that tracking technologies which work well in a small enclosed environment do not function well over longer distances. In this p...Show More
The design of virtual environments usually concentrates on constructing a realistic visual simulation and ignores the non-visual cues normally associated with moving through an environment. The lack of the normal complement of cues may contribute to cybersickness and may affect operator performance. Previously (1998) we described the effect of adding vestibular cues during passive linear motion an...Show More
The vast majority of virtual environments concentrate on constructing a realistic visual simulation while ignoring non-visual environmental cues. Although these missing cues can to some extent be ignored by an operator, the lack of appropriate cues may contribute to cybersickness and may affect operator performance. We examine the role of vestibular cues to self-motion on an operator's sense of se...Show More