VR-Photosense: A Virtual Reality Photic Stimulation Interface for the Study of Photosensitivity.

As new technologies emerge, there is an increase in the potential factors that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy. Virtual Reality (VR) contents and video games can potentially cause a response known as photoparoxysmal response, which is a well recognized phenomenon that can be diagnosed using intermittent photic stimulation (IPS). In this paper, we propose to investigate the potential risk of virtual reality in relation to photosensitivity and we introduce VR-Photosense, a virtual reality IPS software that uses different types of visual stimuli to study abnormal electroencephalogram responses in photosensitive patients, which will enable to study the impact of visually-sensitive VR stimuli in the human brain.