Virtual reality (VR) increasingly causes motion sickness, yet physiological mechanisms and individual susceptibility factors remain unclear. Understanding autonomic nervous system responses and their relationship to vestibular function is crucial for developing safer VR applications....
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change for clinical audiologists at this stage — this is a basic-science/exploratory study; findings may eventually inform vestibular assessment or VR therapy design but are not yet practice-ready.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
Identifying autonomic (nervous system) and vestibular predictors of motion sickness susceptibility could guide the development of safer VR-based vestibular rehabilitation protocols and patient screening tools.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Heart rate variability (HRV) — a measure of how the nervous system controls the heart — was recorded during a VR roller coaster ride.
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