FPS and motion sickness

[Trippy]

I had a friend who got sick from running around an Everquest city (dwarf city, wherever that was).

After a while of being lost there, I started to as well.  It was just too confining and being lost didn't help.

Yeah Kaladim is a bit claustrophobic, especially if you are a "non-short" race.

[Yegolev]

I never got sick playing games until recently, when playing SS2 again made me ill. Never happened when I played the game originaly, so I assume it was to do with some video/refresh rate thing I fail to understand.

It is actually the shadowy hand of Death nudging you towards your grave, old man.

[SuperPopTart]

I had a friend who got sick from running around an Everquest city (dwarf city, wherever that was).

After a while of being lost there, I started to as well.  It was just too confining and being lost didn't help.

Yeah Kaladim is a bit claustrophobic, especially if you are a "non-short" race.

Well see I am very short so Kaladim never bothered me.

I still wonder exactly why Neriak did.

Hmm

[Morfiend]

In more modern games only HL2 makes me feel quesy, I can only play for about 30 minutes before I start sweating on my forehead and feel like I'm about to hurl. It's really annoying since I want to complete HL2 but I probably never will, it's just not worth to suffering for.

Same for me, HL2 is the only game that has made me feel motion sickness in a long time. The part with the waterbuggy thing. Ugh. That water buggy part took me almost a week to finish cause if I played it for more than 15 minutes I would get extremely sick feeling, and have to close my eyes and lie on the bed or couch for half an hour. Thats the worst I have ever had it.

Also, Soldier of Fortune 2 made me so motion sick so fast that I actually vomited. I promptly uninstalled the demo, and it fucking uninstalled half my harddrive.

[Stephen Zepp]

Interesting aside as to how they combatted persistent air sickness in student pilots in the Air Force (this is not a joke):

A student was required to be able to fly three rides in a row without any airsickness whatsoever prior to being allowed to solo, without medication.

By 'rides', do you mean normal tooling around in a plane, dogfighting maneuvers, or stuff like the Vomit Comet(of NASA fame?), or the lesser thing the Air Force inflicted on civies, Touch-n-Go's?

Alkiera

Sorry..."ride" meaning a normal lesson. Pre solo, that just meant basically being able to takeoff, land, do touch and go's (land, touch nose down, take off again without stopping), and navigate around via landmarks...nothing fancy at all.

Most (but not all) of the student air sickness was from the "nervousness" side of air sickness, where people don't respond well to not feeling as if they are in control of their body. In flying lessons, a lot of people are plain scared for a long time (I was!), and it's hard to feel as if you are in control even when you are the one flying the plane!

[Surlyboi]

Well see I am very short so Kaladim never bothered me.

I still wonder exactly why Neriak did.

Hmm

It was all the snooty-ass inkies. Smurfs make everyone nauseous.

[SuperPopTart]

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[schild]

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Aren't we supposed to reserve silliness like that for Signe?

[SuperPopTart]

I wasn't aware we needed a reservation?

[Surlyboi]

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Only for those not acquainted with the Marathon era cult of Bungie

[Fabricated]

I wonder if motion sickness is partially connected with stereoscopic vision.

I have never gotten motion sick in my life, from games or actual activity (boats, cars, whatever). I'm also 100% blind in my right eye (the optic nerve has been dead since I was born, so I've never seen in "3d" for lack of better words).

[Samwise]

That's an interesting theory.  I've got very little in the way of stereoscopic vision too (my bad eye isn't completely blind, but it's nearsighted enough to not do a lot of good, and I never got around to getting glasses), and I've never gotten motion sick from a game.  When I was younger I used to get carsick, but when I was younger both my eyes worked better.  Hmmm....

[Daydreamer]

Huh, well I was born with an ocular coloboma (translation: funny pupil)  due to a genetic translocation.  My right eye is only slightly nearsighted and at 20/40 overall, but I've overcompensated and become VERY left eye dominant.  And I've never gotten motion sickness.

[Alkiera]

WHile I do need glasses to see clearly, I'm not legally blind or anything.  I've only rarely been a bit queasy due to motion, and never while playing a game.  The one time I was sick in a car, I contribute to some odd food and it being exceedingly hot in Branson, MI.

Alkiera

[Calantus]

For what it's worth I get motion sickness if I concentrate on anything within a quickly moving car (about 80km/h and higher). That means no reading, no gameboy, etc. If I look out the window I'm fone, and I can focus on things for little while, but not too long. If I were to guess I'd say some of the video game motion sickness could be attributed to your mind being confused by a combination of moving and stationary input.

[Yegolev]

I can read while riding, GameBoy, whatever. Car or airplane.  Only time I got sick on a flight, I had started drinking heavily at 0930 that morning.  Also, I am not a cyclops.