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oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Maybe so, but you probably need to enjoy your first exposure to want to drop money on an entire setup for it.

It’s already crazy enough to drop that money just hoping you like it, but if you drop it hoping it stops making you nauseous, that’s a much bigger ask.

I’m still hoping I won’t have that problem. I do get car sick on meandering drives, but not even close to as bad as I did 10-15 years ago, but the worse the drive gets, the more I have to stay staring out the car windows.

I assume the VR effect would be similar, given it’s a similar symptom, but backwards. (In VR you don’t feel motion, but you see it, whereas in a car, you feel it, but either don’t see it from not looking, or if you have wide visibility it looks like you’re not moving as much compared to the background)

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AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m someone who has gotten sick in cars before (rarely) but I have done a lot of crazy stuff on VR and never felt remotely sick. I’m an outlier though

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Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As someone who used to get sick in cars and boats, I got it, so you might as well

If the technology interests you, then sick or not, you’ll probably like it. Won’t play every day, but it’ll be a nice experience.

Start with games with not a lot of motion (beat saber for example), then move to more intensive games. You’ll get sick after 15mins, then 20mins, then 25… until you last for a couple hours, and at this point you’ve built your resistance.

Just stop playing when you feel sick and try again an hour later when you feel better or a few days later

But yea, VR isn’t straightforward or an obvious purchase. It requires time and will, and money, obviously

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- oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Personally that’s what I’d like to do anyway. I’m saying that to discuss the growth of the technology among the masses.
  
  Assuming it doesn’t make me violently ill, i like tech and gaming enough to keep it around otherwise. But the potential for the issue and the committal involved off the bat are difficulties for any new, different-enough tech.
  
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