Virtual Space Image Update Timing for Motion Sickness Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often experience discomfort, including motion sickness, when images displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space change simultaneously with their viewpoint, leading to an uncomfortable virtual experience.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that controls the display of a three-dimensional virtual space, focusing on changing the viewed target image while keeping the peripheral image fixed, allowing users to maintain attention on the primary image and predict subsequent changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If all images in the three-dimensional virtual space are changed simultaneously, then the virtual environment can be updated efficiently, but the user experiences discomfort and motion sickness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the virtual space images into two segments: a viewed target image (center region) and a peripheral image (surrounding region). These segments are updated independently with different timing, allowing efficient overall updates while protecting the user from simultaneous changes that cause discomfort.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different update characteristics to different regions of the virtual space. The viewed target image updates at a first timing while the peripheral image updates at a second timing (different from the first). This local differentiation allows efficient updates where needed while maintaining stability in regions that affect user comfort.
2Speed
If the viewed target image is changed frequently, then the user can access new content quickly, but the user's attention is disrupted and discomfort increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent updates the peripheral image in advance (at a second timing) before updating the viewed target image (at a first timing). This preliminary action prepares the surrounding context so that when the target image changes, the user's attention is not disrupted by simultaneous peripheral changes, reducing discomfort.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the peripheral image is changed along with the viewed target image, then the virtual space consistency is maintained, but the user experiences motion sickness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the virtual space display into viewed target image and peripheral image regions, allowing them to be updated independently at different timings. This segmentation maintains virtual space consistency while preventing the simultaneous changes that cause motion sickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic update timing where the peripheral image updates at a second timing and the viewed target image updates at a first timing. This dynamic differentiation in update timing maintains the necessary consistency for virtual space coherence while avoiding the harmful effect of synchronized changes.
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AI summary
The present disclosure proposes a new and improved information processing device and information processing method capable of reducing user's uncomfortable feeling upon changing an image displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device including a control unit that performs control to display, with a user's first-person viewpoint, a three-dimensional virtual space where a viewed target image is arranged to change the viewed target image while fixing a peripheral image of the viewed target image. The viewed target image is a target to be viewed by a user.