So i am designing a custom interactive experience using 360 images, running on a Gear VR. I think it works very well and I am pretty happy with how it's working and you get a good sense of presence, for being 360 still images. But some users who have tested it are feeling slight nausea after a couple of minutes. I was wondering if this is something that is common VR experiences that are only using 360 still images. I have tested out the Oculus 360 photo viewer on the Gear VR and some images i get nausea of and some i don't. So my question is, Is there away to set up a 360 image viewing experience that reduces nausea?
I am using unity to design my experience. I have photos taken with a panorama setup and DSLR camera. The images is projected on the inside of a sphere as a equirectangular panorama picture and i have set up the camera in the middle of the sphere. Is there somethings you could tweek or should not use to reduce nausea. For example, my sphere is a octaheadron sphere, should you use a different kind of sphere? unfortunately the pictures i am using are from an indoor environment since my costumer wanted to create and experience indoors, some objects are as close as 1,5 m (5 feet) and might be the problem. Any tips or experiences on the subject would be great to hear!
Hmmm, whats the frame rate like, constant 90fps? 360 Panoramas should not give any VR sickness .... although there will always be a tiny percentage of users who cannot stand VR for longer than a few minutes no matter how mild the experience is.
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It's at a constant 59, cant get it higher. Might have to try and lower the quality of my sphere and see how it goes then. There are a lot of tris that i might not need beeing drawn right now
Panoramic experience are typically bad because you have to wrap the image around the camera (theta-length). Depending on how the software you are using accomplishes this, the angles and radius could be off slightly enough to cause the viewers eyes to experience discomfort; hence the nausea.
You need to be sure that your image is true 360 degrees (both vertical and horizontal), and then apply it as a "sky" object that the camera resides within. Similar to how it is done with A-Frame and WebVR.
Hmmm, whats the frame rate like, constant 90fps? 360 Panoramas should not give any VR sickness .... although there will always be a tiny percentage of users who cannot stand VR for longer than a few minutes no matter how mild the experience is.
Is there a way to get the Gear up to 90? I thought it was capped at 60
