From: takami@FH.U-TOKAI.AC.JP
Subject:      Re: HUMAN-FACTORS: Long term immersion in VR
Date:         Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:12:06 +0900
Message-ID:  <9606240209.AA26856@fugen.fh.u-tokai.ac.jp>



Although I have already noticed personally to Mr. T. Emerson, it may
be of interest to members of the list that we have carried out some of
such studies and reports are listed in my Web pages.  The latest
report of the series of the studies is appearing on "Presence"
published by MIT press in a coming issue. Our URL is the following;

http://fh.u-tokai.ac.jp

>>Toni Emerson ("temerson"@hitl.washington.edu) wrote:
>>
>>: I'm looking for studies on the effects of long term immersion in HMDs.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>: The subjects were immersed for 20 minute periods.  Does anyone have
>>: references regarding the longest any person has been immersed in a
>>: virtual environment wearing a HMD?
>>
>>I don't know of any studies, but if you are looking for reports of the
>>effects of long-term immersion, I would bet the best people to talk to
>>are the hardware manufacturers themselves.  My personal record is about
>>35 minutes in Virtuality (booth, sit-down style.)  And boy did it cost.
>>
>>-Will
>>willp@magik.albany.net (Will Pierce)
>>

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