School of Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), was quoted in an article, “Virtual reality continues to make people sick,” by The Economist.

Although virtual reality (VR) has powerful technological impacts, the publication highlights virtual reality’s negative effects. According to Dr. Stoffregen, women are four times as susceptible to this as men. In VR settings, participants often have yet to properly adjust their body movement, therefore resulting in cybersickness.