Less Cybersickness, Please: Demystifying and Detecting Stereoscopic Visual Inconsistencies in VR Apps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09313v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:48:48 GMT
• Title: Less Cybersickness, Please: Demystifying and Detecting Stereoscopic Visual Inconsistencies in VR Apps
• Authors: Shuqing Li, Cuiyun Gao, Jianping Zhang, Yujia Zhang, Yepang Liu, Jiazhen Gu, Yun Peng, Michael R. Lyu,
• Abstract summary: Stereoscopic visual inconsistency (denoted as "SVI") issues undermine the rendering process of the user's brain. We propose an unsupervised black-box testing framework named StereoID to identify the stereoscopic visual inconsistencies. We build a large-scale unlabeled VR stereo screenshot dataset with larger than 171K images from 288 real-world VR apps for experiments.
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• Abstract: The quality of Virtual Reality (VR) apps is vital, particularly the rendering quality of the VR Graphical User Interface (GUI). Different from traditional 2D apps, VR apps create a 3D digital scene for users, by rendering two distinct 2D images for the user's left and right eyes, respectively. Stereoscopic visual inconsistency (denoted as "SVI") issues, however, undermine the rendering process of the user's brain, leading to user discomfort and even adverse health effects. Such issues commonly exist but remain underexplored. We conduct an empirical analysis on 282 SVI bug reports from 15 VR platforms, summarizing 15 types of manifestations. The empirical analysis reveals that automatically detecting SVI issues is challenging, mainly because: (1) lack of training data; (2) the manifestations of SVI issues are diverse, complicated, and often application-specific; (3) most accessible VR apps are closed-source commercial software. Existing pattern-based supervised classification approaches may be inapplicable or ineffective in detecting the SVI issues. To counter these challenges, we propose an unsupervised black-box testing framework named StereoID to identify the stereoscopic visual inconsistencies, based only on the rendered GUI states. StereoID generates a synthetic right-eye image based on the actual left-eye image and computes distances between the synthetic right-eye image and the actual right-eye image to detect SVI issues. We propose a depth-aware conditional stereo image translator to power the image generation process, which captures the expected perspective shifts between left-eye and right-eye images. We build a large-scale unlabeled VR stereo screenshot dataset with larger than 171K images from 288 real-world VR apps for experiments. After substantial experiments, StereoID demonstrates superior performance for detecting SVI issues in both user reports and wild VR apps.

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