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  • Immersive virtual environments (VEs) present unique challenges for accurately perceiving scene motion.
  • Understanding visual perception in VEs is crucial for developing realistic and comfortable experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate scene-motion perception thresholds in virtual reality.
  • To determine how head motion characteristics and scene-illumination affect motion perception.

Main Methods:

  • Measured scene-motion perception thresholds across three experiments.
  • Varied conditions included head yaw (quasi-sinusoidal, unidirectional, phase, speed), scene motion relative to head yaw (gain), and scene illumination levels.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual thresholds were higher when scene motion aligned with head motion (gain < 1.0) compared to opposing motion (gain > 1.0).
  • Increasing head motion magnitude led to increased scene-motion perception thresholds.
  • Scene illumination levels did not appear to be a primary factor in the tested conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Head motion dynamics significantly influence the perception of scene motion in VEs.
  • The relative gain between scene and head movement is a critical factor in determining motion perception thresholds.
  • These findings have implications for designing more perceptually accurate and less disorienting virtual reality systems.