Can Absent Saccular Function Mitigate Virtual Reality Sickness? (2018-2020)

Lead investigator: L. Noelle Allemang

This project compared cybersickness symptoms of three groups of individuals: those with absent saccular function and are deaf, those with normal saccular function and are deaf, and those with normal saccular function and are hearing. We measured saccular function using cVEMP testing and assessed cybersickness via participant self-report after completing a virtual reality maze using the Oculus Rift (Oculus VR, Irvine, CA).