Participates needed to evaluate the quality of a virtual reality system
To Whom It May Concern:
We are conducting a voluntary research study to evaluate the quality of a virtual reality system, and we are recruiting participants. Your total time involvement will not exceed 60 minutes, and you will be compensated with a $35 gift card.
As a participant, you will be asked to wear a Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset and perform tasks that include looking around, walking within a designated clear area, and collecting virtual objects using a handheld controller. You will perform these tasks multiple times in different virtual scenes. After each task or comparison, you will answer brief questions about the quality and completeness of the virtual scene.
To be eligible to participate, you must meet all of the following criteria:
- You are 18 to 64 years old.
- You can stand and walk unassisted within a cleared 3 meter by 3 meter area.
- You can wear a virtual reality headset.
- You can use a handheld controller by pressing the right index trigger and using the right thumb stick.
- You can read and understand English instructions and questionnaire text.
- You do not have a known history of severe cybersickness, motion sickness, or virtual-reality sickness that would make wearing a VR headset unsafe or intolerable for you.
- You are not pregnant.
- You have not been advised by a doctor or other medical professional to avoid virtual reality, immersive visual displays, or head-mounted displays.
- You do not have a current vision, balance/vestibular, neurological, psychiatric, heart-related, or other serious medical condition that you know would make standing, walking, or using a VR headset unsafe for you.
Please do not send us any medical details or explain why you do or do not meet these criteria. If you do not meet any of the criteria above, you should not schedule the study.
If you are interested in participating and, after reviewing the eligibility criteria, believe that you meet all criteria, please contact study researcher Mridu Prashanth at mprasha@purdue.edu. A consent form will be presented to you in person before the study, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions before deciding whether to participate.
The study has been reviewed by Purdue’s Institutional Review Board, STUDY2026-00000379.
Study title: Virtual Environment Complexity Reduction Through Stochastic Visibility
Principal Investigator: Voicu Popescu