Oculus Rift provide the most immersive VR experiences and environments available, from games and movie scenes, to exotic destinations and beyond. Founded in July 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Nate Mitchell, and Michael Antonov
If VR experiences ignore fundamental best practices, they can lead to simulator sickness in some people. Simulator sickness is a combination of symptoms clustered a
round eyestrain, disorientation, and nausea. Historically, many of these problems have been attributed to sub-optimal VR hardware variables, such as system latency. The Oculus Rift represents a new generation of VR devices, one that resolves many issues of earlier systems. But even with a flawless hardware implementation, improperly designed content can still lead to an uncomfortable experience. Because VR has been a fairly esoteric and specialized discipline, there are still aspects of it that haven’t been studied enough for anybody to make authoritative statements. In these cases, we put forward informed theories and observations and indicate them as such. User testing of your content is absolutely crucial for designing engaging, comfortable experiences; VR as a popular medium is still too young to have established conventions that address every aspect of the experience. Although our researchers have testing underway, there is only so much they can study at a time. We count on you, the community of Oculus Rift developers, to provide feedback and help us mature these evolving VR best practices and principles.
