The question I have is whether a phone with motion cues causes less nausea than no phone at all in a window-less boat.
Vehicle Motion Cues
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#22A related post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530
Sharing this here in case anyone wants to check out the discussion there and see how it looks in the Verge's short review.
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#23This is an easy enable with "Automatic Detection". Are there any other phone "Accessibility" options that are useful to everyone?
On Android I use super dim, as someone who enjoys low light situations, even the darkest brightness setting can be too bright sometimes
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#24There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness
I tried this and it did nothing for me. For a start, the white dots disappear on a white background, so not a good start. The main thing, though, is while it picked up on the vehicle turning it didn't pick up on acceleration much, which is what actually gives me motion sickness.
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#25The question I have is whether a phone with motion cues causes less nausea than no phone at all in a window-less boat.
It did for me, but n=1.
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#26This is an easy enable with "Automatic Detection". Are there any other phone "Accessibility" options that are useful to everyone?
Not technically "Accessibility" but Android has a "developer" setting called "Show Touches" which puts little dots on screen when you touch it. I find it acts a little like being able to see the cursor on a desktop or laptop; it provides a little bit of immediate feedback that the system recognized your intent, and helps make it clear whether it's the OS or just the app when things are getting laggy.
I think that this setting should be promoted out of developer settings as i find it so useful
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#27This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!
Were a lot of people rawdogging their Thinkpads while driving back in the day? Plugged into an inverter into the cigarette lighter to trickle charge? :-)
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#28This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!
Were a lot of people rawdogging their Thinkpads while driving back in the day? Plugged into an inverter into the cigarette lighter to trickle charge? :-)
Passengers already existed back then, which this intended for.
The motion cues are not meant to decrease motion sickness for a driver doom scrolling on their phone while operating their vehicle.
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#29There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness
I tried this and it did nothing for me. For a start, the white dots disappear on a white background, so not a good start. The main thing, though, is while it picked up on the vehicle turning it didn't pick up on acceleration much, which is what actually gives me motion sickness.
The biggest issue Android has both with Kinestop amd this app is unlike Apple's system it does not count for acceleration. I find myself having to look ahead when under acceleration or braking. I have experienced the Apple's motion cues when my friend got curious if it would work because he had no use for it since he did not have motion sickness and I'm unsure if it was just psychological but it felt better than Kinestop which I use.
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#30I use this a lot on my MacBook Air when working in cabs. It’s beautiful and works well for me