When I first started VR I would get sick, so I started to use it for 30 minutes at a time, then 1 hour, then more and more until I can handle 8 hours at a time (break at 4 hour mark). It just takes practice.
did you grow up playing a lot of videogames? I have a theory that getting used to it while young has a big impact on how it’ll effect you later. My grandma can’t even look at Minecraft without getting sick and I can play VR for hours with nothing other than a bit of “woah no delay” for a few minutes
Curious if you started with ‘intense’ experiences with artificial locomotion? IIRC if you have bad experiences while getting used to VR, your brain will associate the headset with nausea and it can be a vicious cycle.
Do not ever do this. VR for a person that doesn’t tolerate it can lead to days of feeling sick, nausea etc. Some people aren’t meant to play it. Listen to your body, when it tells you “I don’t feel so well” just stop. Otherwise you’ll lose a week of your life and be miserable, if not something worse.
I think the “adapted” state would feel like living with a chronic illness. You’ll still constantly feel nauseous and be puking, but you’d force yourself through doing basic life activities anyway
Some years ago I got so drunk that had a 1-2 seconds visual delay, I vividly remember not being able to stop my friends from stealing my chips because I literally tried stopping them way too late. It was really funny tbh, damn.
In any case, I never felt nauseated, my brain got accustomed to having a delay naturally.
If you think about it, the perception of what is “right side up” is arbitrary. It’s like that cliche discussion of qualia and what if what I see as red is different from what you see as red.
The lenses of your eyes already perceive the whole world upside down, your brain just flips it. If you wear glasses that invert it after a few days your brain will stop the flipping (and then if you take them off it’ll take a few days to re-flip).
I bet the lag would be worse than the perspective. Even a few dozen milliseconds is noticeable by some people and you’d feel drunk or nauseated.
When I first started VR I would get sick, so I started to use it for 30 minutes at a time, then 1 hour, then more and more until I can handle 8 hours at a time (break at 4 hour mark). It just takes practice.
I do qa for VR headsets and have never gotten used to them. I’m at like three years of use as my job and still get nauseous
did you grow up playing a lot of videogames? I have a theory that getting used to it while young has a big impact on how it’ll effect you later. My grandma can’t even look at Minecraft without getting sick and I can play VR for hours with nothing other than a bit of “woah no delay” for a few minutes
I grew up on video games and have been getting high so slime rancher doesn’t make me sick
Curious if you started with ‘intense’ experiences with artificial locomotion? IIRC if you have bad experiences while getting used to VR, your brain will associate the headset with nausea and it can be a vicious cycle.
I do think I read that some people just can’t handle VR. No idea why. Hopefully you take brakes often and don’t get too sick.
jesus christ what are you doing with vr for eight hours
mom, knock first!
My wife and I used to stream on twitch and we would stream 8 hours for 2 days a week.
We did VR for a few months, I setup half the living room with green screen and used LIV software and a camera to put us inside the games.
One of the times I was waving the controller and broke the ceiling light glass shade while live so that was exciting lol
Do not ever do this. VR for a person that doesn’t tolerate it can lead to days of feeling sick, nausea etc. Some people aren’t meant to play it. Listen to your body, when it tells you “I don’t feel so well” just stop. Otherwise you’ll lose a week of your life and be miserable, if not something worse.
I feel like after some time (and some throwing up) you’d maybe get used to it.
I bet the vast majority of people would get used to it. The human brain is wondrously plastic.
If vision flipping goggles can be adapted to I bet this could too.
I’m just one of those people who notice the lag so I’d be puking the whole time I was adapting.
I think the “adapted” state would feel like living with a chronic illness. You’ll still constantly feel nauseous and be puking, but you’d force yourself through doing basic life activities anyway
Some years ago I got so drunk that had a 1-2 seconds visual delay, I vividly remember not being able to stop my friends from stealing my chips because I literally tried stopping them way too late. It was really funny tbh, damn.
In any case, I never felt nauseated, my brain got accustomed to having a delay naturally.
I get the getting used to lag part. But getting used to the whole world being upside down sounds insane.
If you think about it, the perception of what is “right side up” is arbitrary. It’s like that cliche discussion of qualia and what if what I see as red is different from what you see as red.
Okay, that’s a fair point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles
Takes a few days but it’s totally possible.
Fucking hell
The lenses of your eyes already perceive the whole world upside down, your brain just flips it. If you wear glasses that invert it after a few days your brain will stop the flipping (and then if you take them off it’ll take a few days to re-flip).
Still sounds disgusting. Just thinking about trying to walk seems horrible.
There are diary entries of John Carmack about this. And a lecture on youtube