I work at sea and rarely suffer motion sickness unless it's storm conditions and I'm below deck but I do get VR sickness, one thing I notice in people at sea and have found equally true with VR. Don't do it if you're tired!
Thanks for the video. The first game I baught and playwd was Half Life Alyx and though I do play it with a Omnidirect Threatmill/Slidemill. But damn I felt quite sick after 1-1 1/2 hour of playing. I will take more breaks now, ty
First two games I played on quest 3 were asgards wrath 2, and strayed. Both made me extremely nauseous after about 30 mins. I'll be working on building a tolerance as best I can. Ive never experienced sea sickness or anything of the like. But the VR immersion is a new/different animal! 🥴
I'm usually prone to motion sickness. I get car sick and sea sick. I have my first headset inbound and I'll be sure to try anything to not get sick. One thing you didn't mention is using motion sickness medication. It's probably a bit extreme but if one plays VR only every now and then it might be okay to just do that. I do that when I scuba dive.
This is the best list of advice about VR sickness that I've seen. This is spot on, especially the first one. The last ones may sound a little wacky, but the thing about VR sickness is that it's entirely an illusion. It's literally all in your head. Placebos really work under that kind of scenario. Something else I'll mention is that VR sickness isn't exactly the same thing as motion sickness. It has similar mechanisms, but unlike motion sickness, as I mentioned, it's entirely illusion. There is no real world motion that's causing the upset versus like a swaying ship. It also has other mechanisms that are unique to VR like the fact that focus distance in VR is always the same even though your binocular vision sees objects as closer or farther away. That creates another sensory conflict.
My two cents. When you are exploring/expanding your limits with VR motion you WILL overdo it at least a little at some point. So be ready beforehand with remedies/pharmaceuticals of your choosing. I am still on my journey to get my "VR legs" and in parallel becoming an obsessive ginger tea sipper :D
