Every time I’ve used VR (including latest ones), I feel sick and dizzy afterwards. I don’t think this issue is unique to me. It feels difficult to me to imagine that most people would want to spend significant daily time in something that has such an effect and nothing in this post addressed this issue. Your prediction feels wildly wrong to me.
It’s not unique to you, but I don’t know how common it is either. It hasn’t been trivial to find statistics on how many people get how much nausia and how long it takes them to find their legs. It’s something I want to look at.
What were you doing in VR, btw? Were you using teleportation controls?
There’s a hope that good enough hardware will be able to just totally avoid the nausia triggers.
I’ve noticed that, at least for me, immersion and nausia are coincident. The more aware I am that I’m sitting in a room using VR, the less nausia. Every piece of entertainment software wants me to forget I’m using VR. We might only start to see solid trials of zero-immersion apps once VR is a practical interface device.
Trying to figure out whether passthrough will make it better or worse. Unsure. People don’t get nausia from wearing sunglasses, do they? Would it feel any different to that? (maybe?)
Just as an anecoditcal observation. I’ve had two cases of people who would claim to feel sick and dizzy in VR when they tried it, but then when I put them in a cool social situation in VR they reported not feeling dizzy any more. It’s like the dopamine of being in a cool/interesting situation (mostly social) seems to make the brain overcome the dizziness?
Theory: Seeing other people happily doing something is a stronger signal to the body about whether it’s okay than proprioception error. Consider, seeing other people puke is gonna make you want to puke. Maybe seeing people not puke at all does the opposite.
Every time I’ve used VR (including latest ones), I feel sick and dizzy afterwards. I don’t think this issue is unique to me. It feels difficult to me to imagine that most people would want to spend significant daily time in something that has such an effect and nothing in this post addressed this issue. Your prediction feels wildly wrong to me.
It’s not unique to you, but I don’t know how common it is either. It hasn’t been trivial to find statistics on how many people get how much nausia and how long it takes them to find their legs. It’s something I want to look at.
What were you doing in VR, btw? Were you using teleportation controls? There’s a hope that good enough hardware will be able to just totally avoid the nausia triggers.
I’ve noticed that, at least for me, immersion and nausia are coincident. The more aware I am that I’m sitting in a room using VR, the less nausia. Every piece of entertainment software wants me to forget I’m using VR. We might only start to see solid trials of zero-immersion apps once VR is a practical interface device.
Trying to figure out whether passthrough will make it better or worse. Unsure. People don’t get nausia from wearing sunglasses, do they? Would it feel any different to that? (maybe?)
Just as an anecoditcal observation. I’ve had two cases of people who would claim to feel sick and dizzy in VR when they tried it, but then when I put them in a cool social situation in VR they reported not feeling dizzy any more. It’s like the dopamine of being in a cool/interesting situation (mostly social) seems to make the brain overcome the dizziness?
Theory: Seeing other people happily doing something is a stronger signal to the body about whether it’s okay than proprioception error. Consider, seeing other people puke is gonna make you want to puke. Maybe seeing people not puke at all does the opposite.