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Behavior

Published: May 19, 2023 doi: 10.3791/65170
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1Psychology Department, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, 2Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 3National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, 4Department of Military Medical Psychology, Air Force Medical University

Materials

Name Company Catalog Number Comments
3D engine SDK Epic Games Unreal Engine 4
GameAnalytics Unreal SDK		 This SDK is a powerful yet flexible free analytics tool designed for games.
CPU Intel IntelCore i9 One of the most powerful CPU on the mainstream market.
Eye tracking SDK Tobii Tobii XR SDK This SDK provide device agnostic access to eye tracking data to allow development for headsets from many different hardware vendors and is not limited to devices using Tobii Eye Tracking hardware.
Eye tracking software Developed by the research team A program that tracks the movement of a person's eyes while they are using a virtual reality HMD.
FlySimulator program Developed by the research team A software that simulates flying experiences in a virtual environment, using VR HMD and hand-held controllers.
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
10496 NVIDIA CUDA Cores
1.70 GHz Boost Clock  
24 GB Memory Size
GDDR6X Memory Type		 One of the most powerful graphics card on the mainstream market.
Operating system (OS) Microsoft Windows XP An operating system (OS) developed and exclusively distributed by Microsoft Corporation
Replica control panel THRUSTMASTER 2960720 2971004 2962072 2960748 2960769 U.S. Air Force A-10C attack aircraft HOTAS
Replica joystick THRUSTMASTER 2960720 U.S. Air Force A-10C attack aircraft HOTAS
Replica pedal THRUSTMASTER TPR pendular rudder
Replica throttle THRUSTMASTER U.S. Air Force A-10C attack aircraft HOTAS
Screen connected to PC Redmi RMMNT27NF, 27-inch, 1920 X 1080 resolution ratio Screen allows the experimenter to simultaneously view what is happening in the VR HMD
Screen recording software OBS Project OBS Studio Version 28.0 A free and open source software for video recording and live streaming
Statistical power analysis software Open-Source G*power Version 3.1.9.6 A free and user-friendly tool for estimating statistical power and sample size.
Statistical software IBM SPSS Version 24.0 A powerful statistical software platform
Versatile statistics tool GraphPad Software GraphPad Prism Version 9.4.0 A versatile statistics tool purpose-built for scientists-not statisticians
VR app store HTC Corporation VIVE Software 2.0.17.6 / 2.1.17.6 An app store for virtual reality where customers can explore, create, connect, and experience the content they love and need.
VR head-mounted display (HMD) HTC Corporation VIVE Pro Eye A VR headset with precision eye tracking
VR software Steam Steam VR Version 1.23 A tool for experiencing VR content on the hardware

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Ke, L., Zhang, Z., Ma, Y., Xiao, Y., … More

Ke, L., Zhang, Z., Ma, Y., Xiao, Y., Wu, S., Wang, X., Liu, X., He, J. Evaluating Flight Performance and Eye Movement Patterns Using Virtual Reality Flight Simulator. J. Vis. Exp. (195), e65170, doi:10.3791/65170 (2023).

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