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VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea it's like getting your sea legs. I could only play bone works on the valve index for about ~10 min before the nausea got to the "oh shit I might actually puke" level.

Just playing for 10 - 30 minutes a day basically cured the nausea within 2 weeks. After that I could play till the controllers died.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truth. My kids pay Gorilla Tag, Population: One and a lot of the Meta Quest games (I use ReVive for my HP HMD), those are kinda tough for me to get used to so quickly, but I also play Elite: Dangerous on VR and that is the absolute shit on VR (except for the on-foot part…WTaF Frontier), takes me very little time to adjust to. I love VR, this is stuff I’ve been dreaming of since I was younger, and sincerely hope it doesn’t go the way of 3D TV. It’s a lot of fun.

[–] Philolurker 2 points 1 year ago

I've heard games like Elite are less problematic, since you're sitting still and the vehicle is moving. Apparently that makes it more natural, compared to moving around on foot in the game but standing still in real life.