https://www.erikstill.com/writings daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://www.erikstill.com/writings/the-future-of-ar monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://www.erikstill.com/writings/vrs-biggest-problem-and-how-we-could-maybe-solve-it monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/c5b18371-7b38-4757-8267-ab228ded35ef/unnamed+%284%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/ae550dcb-7112-4fbc-b7e7-4534c9e165ef/unnamed+%285%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/6ed43028-67ea-4cf0-b97e-399a29629789/unnamed.gif Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It If you put your cursor above one of the dots, you’ll realize that nothing is actually moving in this illusion by Dr. Kitaoka. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/582e9e8c-0d5b-4394-84e7-c42603066bd1/unnamed+%286%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out An example of a VR vignette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/9980b009-50a8-4b80-bece-c62dfe779f7e/unnamed+%288%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out An approximation of what the motion processing system would see if it had 1.5 cpd vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/7388d9c0-d212-4137-8e46-9c1e251baec6/unnamed+%287%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out An approximation of what the motion processing system would see if it filtered for <1.5 cpd spatial frequency instead (Edwards et al., 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/5ceb1f04-2fe3-4dd1-a653-7eb7c3660ffb/unnamed+%2812%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Contrast sensitivity = how easily people can tell that something is moving (Mikellidou et al., 2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/84c4d790-cff4-4450-b0b3-44db52eadbaa/unnamed+%2810%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Isotropic noise should theoretically be the most effective at causing motion sickness, since it’s noise “in all orientations” and therefore makes for the most reliable signal. Image from 3Delight Cloud https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/9e3da884-e53b-48b7-87b8-e77e7937296c/illusion30-5bd6ec26d6a92__880.jpg Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Illusory motion is used to enhance depth in this image by Yurii Perepadia (2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/e1ad451f-4d55-40c9-98c9-63da008ef9df/Capture.PNG Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out From top to bottom: a color gradient with all brightness differences removed > a normal gradient > greyscale version of gradient with no brightness differences > greyscale version of normal gradient. Note how we just removed brightness without touching color. Image source: Ottoson, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/e2d02e03-a2fc-4cd5-b8f2-436ce7bc7407/image+126+%281%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out An example of grid flicker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/f74258ac-86af-4262-b6f5-75e9d2e4bd0d/unnamed+%2811%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out An example of a brightness vignette we made, where brightness contrast is removed from the periphery (it’s pretty subtle, unless the scene naturally has a lot of brightness contrast). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/691c1d48fbe35d0d88931977/7e0b9261-a5b4-4819-b06b-7a9cbb28978a/unnamed+%2813%29.png Writings - VR’s Biggest Problem and How We Could (Maybe) Solve It - Make it stand out Left = applying a high-pass filter to remove low frequency information. 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