Computer analysis of user comfort in virtual reality environments

A virtual reality analytics system comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• a digital electronic memory that is communicatively coupled to the one or more hardware processors and programmed to perform:
• during execution of a virtual reality program by a client computer that causes generating and displaying a virtual reality environment via a virtual reality display device that is coupled to the client computer, by a set of comfort level processing instructions, receiving a programmatic call from the virtual reality program that invokes comfort level processing;
• by the comfort level processing instructions, generating and causing the client computer to display a prompt panel within the virtual reality environment that prompts selecting a comfort value indicating a relative level of user comfort associated with the virtual reality environment;
• by the comfort level processing instructions, receiving an input signal indicating a selection of the comfort value;
• creating in memory of the client computer, by the comfort level processing instructions, a digital message that includes the comfort value, one or more names of metadata attributes associated with the virtual reality environment, and one or more metadata values corresponding to the names of metadata attributes and indicating one or more aspects of a state of the virtual reality environment at a time that the digital message is created;
• transmitting the digital message from the client computer to a server computer over a data network.