An Empirical Study of VR Head-Mounted Displays Based on VR Games Reviews

Abstract

With the development of virtual reality (VR) technology, various VR devices are flooding the market. VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) sales are overgrowing as the primary medium for experiencing VR games. Therefore, exploring user concerns about HMDs is significant, enabling developers to design better VR devices and VR games. In this work, we conduct an empirical study of 7,413 VR games and 176,428 player reviews collected from three platforms (i.e., Oculus, Steam, and Viveport). First, we investigate the evolutionary trends of HMDs based on VR games. Subsequently, we extract nine topics (e.g., cybersickness, performance, and privacy) related to HMDs from game reviews that users are concerned about, analyze the emotional trends, and explore the voices of players. We find that users complain less about the cybersickness and immersion of HMDs and more about other topics (e.g., performance, tracking, and compatibility). In addition, more users have expressed concerns about privacy in recent years.