Photosensitivity Mitigation During Display of Content

There are provided systems and methods for providing photosensitivity mitigation during display of content. In one implementation, such a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software application. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software application to, while content is being displayed on a primary display for viewing by a viewer, determine that a portion of the content that is about to be displayed on the primary display may trigger a photosensitivity reaction by the viewer, generate an alert to the viewer to switch viewing the content from the primary display to viewing the content from a secondary display, and display the portion of the content on the secondary display.

BACKGROUND

Modern movies and other cinema quality content can provide spectacular visual effects. Moreover, display features such as large ultra-high definition display screens intensify the experience of a viewer watching such content. Despite the many aesthetic advantages associated with modern high resolution content production and display technologies, for some susceptible viewers, under some viewing conditions, the rapidly shifting visual effects and vivid colors made possible by those technologies can trigger a photosensitivity reaction. Such a photosensitivity reaction may take the form of unpleasant dizziness or even terrifying vertigo, nausea, headache such as migraine, or any combination of those symptoms. Still more concerning, in relatively rare cases, a photosensitive reaction may take the form of photosensitive epilepsy including potentially life threatening seizures, even among individuals who do not suffer from classic epilepsy. These photosensitivity reactions are more common in viewers under eighteen than in adults, placing those younger viewers at greater jeopardy in the absence of a solution for mitigating the risk of experiencing a photosensitivity reaction.