抄録
The health hazards posed by Virtual Reality (VR) environments can be divided into two groups based on their developing mechanism. The first group is related to optical stimulus load and is exemplified by Visual Display Terminal (VDT) Syndrome. The second group encompasses those caused by space information confusion and is exemplified by VR sickness. Among space information confusion induced hazards, VR sickness is especially serious because it can involve strong discomfort, headache, nausea and vomiting. Because VR sickness may prove to be a barrier to the spread of VR environments, it is thought that countermeasures are required. This paper reports the current state of VR sickness countermeasure knowledge. Research is summarized and organized mainly according to the following stories: "Cognition of VR sickness", "Mechanisms involved with the development of VR sickness", "Directions for countermeasure development" and "Evaluation of VR sickness".
