Lightweight Cybersickness Detection based on User-Specific Eye and Head Tracking Data in Virtual Reality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17158v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:10:47 GMT
• Title: Lightweight Cybersickness Detection based on User-Specific Eye and Head Tracking Data in Virtual Reality
• Abstract summary: Existing cybersickness detection methods often suffer from issues such as poor detection reliability across different levels of cybersickness.<n>In this paper, we investigate a lightweight approach for cybersickness detection incorporating an ensemble learning model and user-specific eye and head tracking data.<n>Models trained with data from similar-content segments achieve the best results, attaining detection accuracies of 93% in the cross-user setting and 88% in the user-personalized setting.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The occurrence of cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) significantly impairs users' perception and sense of immersion. Therefore, timely detection of cybersickness and the application of appropriate intervention strategies are crucial for enhancing the user experience. However, existing cybersickness detection methods often suffer from issues such as poor detection reliability across different levels of cybersickness and unnecessary model complexity. Furthermore, while cybersickness exhibits significant inter-user variability, most existing approaches aggregate all data from users and lack user-specific solutions. In this paper, we investigate a lightweight approach for cybersickness detection incorporating an ensemble learning model and user-specific eye and head tracking data. Our experiments using the open-source dataset Simulation 2021 demonstrate that feature engineering and training set construction are critical for determining detection performance. Models trained with data from similar-content segments achieve the best results, attaining detection accuracies of 93% in the cross-user setting and 88% in the user-personalized setting, using only 23-dimensional eye and head features. Moreover, by using user-specific data, well-tuned ensemble learning models with shorter training and inference times can be feasibly applied to real-world cybersickness detection, offering superior time efficiency and outstanding detection performance. This work offers useful evidence toward the development of lightweight and user-adaptive cybersickness detection models for VR applications.

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