Gaze angle: A possible mechanism of visual stress in virtual reality headsets

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 280-285

  Mon Williams, Mark ^a,b   Plooy, Anna ^a   Burgess Limerick, Robin ^a   Wann, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaze angle; Head mounted displays; Virtual reality; Visual stress

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR VISION; DISPLAY DEVICES; EYE MOVEMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; VERTICAL GAZE ANGLE; VISUAL STRESS;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; STRESS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 0032030482     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398187035     Document Type: Article

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