What does the lab do?

While the lab has a focus on cybersickness, this research benefits greatly from "real" VR applications as the fields suffers from lack of data points.  All the research requires is initial monitoring of participant and recording the duration of comfortable use. Therefore the lab welcomes inquires to prototype applications well suited to VR. Applications well suited to VR tend to be intrinsically 3D and\or behavioral based such as training, safety, and response to environments.

The research lab currently has a selection of VR headsets, a Kat-mini 2D treadmill, and an in-house rumble platform.

The lab head also has access to a 20 VR ready computer classroom with Vive Cosmo Elites. These system are wired for better reliability of dense VR systems over wireless.

What is cybersickness?

Cybersickness is the feeling of motion sickness like symptoms due to visual stimuli, and most notable virtual reality. It is sometimes called visual induced motions sickness (VIMS). Despite improvements in hardware, cybersickness still affects  40-60% of the population, and limits the duration of safe usage. Tolerance is generally developed with repeated use, but limited access to VR may prevent this.

Current projects:

• VR application course textbook

• VR interaction suite

• Cybersickness Testing Suite framework

• Color and cybersickness

• Contrast and cybersickness

• Realism and Cybersickness

• Distance mis-estimation in VR

Prior publications

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vHRi25QAAAAJ&hl=en

Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lisa-Rebenitsch

Open Positions

• Master's/PhD graduate research assistant in a VR position for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.