ABC News Inside Science has published a story on how despite improvements made in virtual reality (VR) systems over the years, many VR users still experience motion sickness, quoting Kinesiology professor Tom Stoffregen, PhD, extensively.

Individuals, particularly women, experience motion sickness differently, and Stoffregen’s theory of postural instability as the cause was discussed in the article. He attended a conference on July 28 in Los Angeles with other researchers who study “cybersickness,” as VR-related motion sickness is called, during the SIGGRAPH2019 conference. The group discussed what they can do to help prevent VR-related motion sickness, as well as various theories on why cybersickness occurs, why it only happens to some people, and what makes women especially vulnerable.

Stoffregen is also director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL).