Continuous Movement Using Blurred Vignettes In VR

Virtual Reality allows users to completely immerse themselves in a virtual world and experience these spaces as if they were truly part of it. Movement within these spaces are crucial for proper exploration, but continuous movement tends to cause cybersickness for a substantial proportion of users. Although methods such as teleportation and opaque vignettes have been popularized to avoid this problem, these may limit the level of immersion and awareness users should be experiencing while traveling within the virtual world. Here, we propose a method that restricts a user’s peripheral view with gradual blurs that decrease the perception of periphery movement while still maintaining a certain amount of spatial immersion and awareness for the user. Our result shows that the blurred vignette method reduces the level of cybersickness compared to the traditional continuous movement method, but did not achieve a significant higher presence score compared to opaque vignettes and teleportation.