Motion sickness accessibility in video games
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Motion sickness accessibility in video games
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#3The one thing that will universally get me in a video game is head bob mixed with weapon sway. My brain will nope the heck out of those games almost instantly. I will happily ride the worst roller coasters, boats, busses, and cars I can find and get zero motion sickness. One minute playing Call of Duty? Done.
FOV helps with some games, but the bob is always what gets me. I would love the option to turn stuff like that off.
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#4I can't play any first person shooters because of motion sickness, it's quite annoying. Anyone else in this situation that managed to figure out something?
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#5I can't play any first person shooters because of motion sickness, it's quite annoying. Anyone else in this situation that managed to figure out something?
Depends on the game, but usually turning up the FOV to much higher than most defaults will help a lot. But screen size, etc. will have an impact as well.
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#6I can't play any first person shooters because of motion sickness, it's quite annoying. Anyone else in this situation that managed to figure out something?
Exposure therapy helps for me. If I dont play video games for a long period of time I'm always a lot more nauseous coming back. But easing into it over time helps.
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#7The one thing that will universally get me in a video game is head bob mixed with weapon sway. My brain will nope the heck out of those games almost instantly. I will happily ride the worst roller coasters, boats, busses, and cars I can find and get zero motion sickness. One minute playing Call of Duty? Done. FOV helps with some games, but the bob is always what gets me. I would love the option to turn stuff like tha…
I love Halo because it doesn't trigger any motion sickness for me at all. No head bob.
I played a top-down 3D RTS once and had to turn it off because the camera had just enough acceleration/momentum/drift that it was triggering dizziness.
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#8I can't play any first person shooters because of motion sickness, it's quite annoying. Anyone else in this situation that managed to figure out something?
Turning off motion blur and other high end graphic effects can really help, especially if they are hurting your framerate
I find if I'm getting a consistent framerate then the effects don't bother me as much, but motion blur plus a sudden framerate drop is guaranteed to make me nauseous
My wife on the other hand cannot handle motion blur effects at all, and any time we play a game together I turn it off immediately
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#955 years old and I’ve never played a first person shooter because of I get extreme nausea after about a minute.
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#10Probably a decade ago at this point, a friend got the first publicly available Oculus Rift development kit. We all wanted to try it, so a bunch of us gathered in his attic to give it a go. We were playing this tech demo where you would swing around on ropes to get between flying islands.
Every single person who tried it got sick, except for myself. I played it longer than anyone else and did not have an issue.
I have a lazy eye. It's fine most of the time but when I get tired it just drifts off into the outer corner and makes me look scary. My guess at the time was that my brain was just used to getting signals from my eyes that didn't make sense.
To this day however, I still get very car sick trying to read my phone in a moving motor vehicle, so I don't know.