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Running in Tight Spaces: A Large-scale Assessment of Physical and Psychological Safety Risks in Freely Moving Virtual Reality

2026-07-10

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<p>Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used to study human behavior in ecologically valid, embodied environments, but its physical and psychological risks beyond cybersickness remain poorly quantified. In this observational study, we provide a safety assessment of freely moving VR (fm-VR), using data from 859 participants in low-speed (<1 m/s) and higher-speed (>3 m/s) experiments. We show that a prominent...

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Literature Corpus work: 91320482-54b2-546e-b8bf-ab06b791b806
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7cqvx_v1

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