NCT06106256

Three-Axis Wearable Adaptive Vestibular Stimulator

3WAVeS: Three-Axis Wearable Adaptive Vestibular Stimulator

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve current galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) technology to ease the motion sickness often associated with virtual reality (VR) simulation.

Detailed description

The Three-Axis Wearable Adaptive Vestibular Stimulator (3WAVeS) technology that combines galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) and Virtual Reality (VR) will not only increase VR-based simulation realism and presence, but will also mitigate the motion sickness often associated with VR simulation by re-coupling the vestibular and ocular inputs to the VR user. Additionally, due to GVS technology's ability to accurately provide continuous inputs to the vestibular system, 3WAVeS can intentionally simulate high-fidelity effects of spatial disorientation for training purposes.

Conditions

• Motion Sickness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS)	Four electrodes, forehead, behind both ears, and back of your neck, provide bidirectional electrical stimulation and receive information about the amplitude delivered accounting for skin impedance
OTHER	Flight simulations in virtual reality (VR)	Highly immersive, 3D virtual flight simulation environment
OTHER	3-DOF Bertec Portable Essential's dual-balance force plate system	Firm surface/plate to stand on while being presented disorienting visual patters of moving vertical and/or horizontal bars of alternating black and white.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-15
• Primary completion: 2025-12-10
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2023-10-30
• Last updated: 2026-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study