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VR research is being conducted in many laboratories around the globe, sev- eral of which are also interested in the investigation of simulator sick- ness. Such laboratories include the Human Interface Technology Labora- tory at the University of Washington (http://www.hitl.washington.edu) and the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis Uni- versity (http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/pages/faculty/dizio.html). There are also many laboratories in the United Kingdom conducting VR re- search. The major VR researchers there have established a group known as the UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group (http://www.crg.cs. nott.ac.uk/ukvrsig/), made up of representatives from both industry and academia, which aims to provide a communications network for all VR researchers and users in the United Kingdom. Some of the member labo- ratories, such as the Virtual Environment Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh (http://hagg.psy.ed.ac.uk/), also are interested in investiga- tion of the effects of VR exposure.
A final major contributor to the investigation of simulator sickness in VEs is the Simulator Systems Research Unit (SSRU) of the U.S. Army Research Institute (http://www.ari.fed.us/ssru.htm). SSRU is investi- gating the use of VEs for the training of dismounted infantry (Lampton et al., 1994a) for the ultimate goal of integrating the dismounted soldier into large-scale networked simulations. As part of its research effort, SSRU also is dedicated to investigation of the occurrence of sickness in VEs (Lampton et al., 1994b). |