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Figure 3.0. Themes
3.2.1. User Performance. This section deals with qualitative data associated
with factors affecting user performance in the virtual environment.
Little Evidence of Past Motion Sickness in Participants. Most subjects responded
negatively when asked if they had a past history of motion sickness. One female
participant complained of experiencing motion sickness on drives but completed the
experiment without a hitch.
Most participants experienced some degree of discomfort after 12 minutes with
the head mounted display. Most of the participants stated that they experienced
momentary discomfort after 12 minutes of immersion in the virtual reality environment
using the head mounted display.
Equal distribution of participants who had experience with first person games.
There were an even proportion of gamers who had experience with the first person genre
of games, which was quite similar to the virtual environment that was used in the
experiments vs. those who had not had experience with these games.
Little experience with head mounted displays. Most of the participants had not
used head mounted displays prior to the experiment and expressed curiosity in terms of
its functioning.
VR task was relative easy for all participants with one exception. Analysis of the
video recordings of the participants showed that all of the participants were successful in