Your Illustrations Make Me Sick!
A Study on VR Illustrations and Discomfort
Master's Thesis / Artistic Research / 2022–2025 / VR Illustration / Academic Writing
Virtual reality (VR) discomfort is a term for various symptoms of nausea that the user of a VR headset might feel during and after being immersed to virtual worlds. These symptoms have been researched widely in the fields of simulation training and video games under the term simulator sickness, but not from the perspective of illustration. With the increasing popularity and accessibility of VR headsets, illustrators and artists are adopting the technology more widely. However, most people are not yet accustomed to being immersed inside illustrations, which means viewing the artwork can lead to nausea. Being aware of what causes VR discomfort will allow illustrators to take those elements into account.
This thesis studies how VR discomfort affects the work of an illustrator by creating a series of artworks to be tested on people. The illustrations will test for example the viewer's ability to withstand motion in an illustration. The test session also includes an interview conducted during the testing. Based on the data VR illustrations can cause similar VR discomfort symptoms as VR simulators or games, but there are also differences that depend for example on the style of the illustrator and the role of the viewer in the illustration. The results provide a subjective conclusion on what are some of the best practices when creating illustrations for virtual reality, as well as act as a starting point for future research of VR discomfort from the perspective of illustration.
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