The impact of virtual reality technologies on the health of employees

The article is a review of research on the impact of virtual reality on the functional state and human health. The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest in the use of virtual reality technologies in industry, education, medicine and other fields. At the same time, it is known that more than 80% of users have various side effects.

The authors have analyzed more than 60 foreign literary sources in order to study the peculiarities of the negative effects of being in a virtual environment on human organisms.

An analysis of scientific publications has shown that most of them are devoted to the study of cyber sickness, although researchers note other negative symptoms and effects caused by virtual reality: visual and muscle fatigue, acute stress and mental fatigue. We identified three groups of factors influencing the development of side effects: individual, hardware and software factors, and found that the characteristics of the visual display have the greatest impact on the user's condition.

The disadvantage of most studies is the use of the questionnaire method, as well as the assessment of the impact of short-term work in extended environments on the human body.

The issues discussed in this article form the directions for further research in the field of human interaction and the virtual environment.

Contribution:
Glukhov D.V. — editing;
Kalinina S.A. — collecting material, writing the text;
Merkulova A.G. — collecting material, writing the text.
All authors — approval of the final version of the article, responsibility for the integrity of all parts of the article, the concept of the study.

Funding. The work had no funding.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

Received: 11.09.2023 / Accepted: 30.10.2023 / Published: 15.12.2023

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