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Who gets Motion Sickness from video games?
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Certain games I can't just play and for whatever reasion Oblivion and FallOut 3 make me really sick. Anyone have games that does the same thing to them?
Simulation sickness
Simulation sickness, or simulator sickness, is a condition where a person exhibits symptoms similar to motion sickness caused by playing computer/simulation/video games.[1]
The most common theory for the cause of simulation sickness is that the illusion of motion created by the virtual world, combined with the absence of motion detected by the inner ear, causes the area postrema in the brain to infer that one is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing nausea and mass vomiting, to clear the supposed toxin.[7] According to this theory, simulation sickness is just another form of motion sickness.
The symptoms are often described as quite similar to that of motion sickness. Some can range from headache, drowsiness, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and sweating. A research done at the University of Minnesota had students play Halo for less than an hour, and found that up to 50 percent felt sick afterwards.[10]
In a study conducted by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in a report published May 1995 titled "Technical Report 1027 - Simulator Sickness in Virtual Environments", out of 742 pilot exposures from 11 military flight simulators, "approximately half of the pilots (334) reported post-effects of some kind: 250 (34%) reported that symptoms dissipated in less than 1 hour, 44 (6%) reported that symptoms lasted longer than 4 hours, and 28 (4%) reported that symptoms lasted longer than 6 hours. There were also 4 (1%) reported cases of spontaneously occurring flashbacks".[11][12]
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He can't play Halo 3 at all.
I feel sorry for the guy.
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I could even play that Marathon: Durandal on the XBLA that seemed to make everyone sick no problem.
I do sometimes get a headache after more than an hour playing older, really low res PC games. Early/bad 3D hurts my eyes too, like pretty much anything on the original Playstation.
Thats exactly the way I feel from Fallout3 and Oblivion. I can't even play for 10 min before I feel like shit.
EDIT: I can't play Fallout 3 with the controller either. I get sick from the motion not being natural compared to using a mouse.
Personally, I have no issues with Fallout 3 or Oblivion. I remember the first time I got sick, it was playing the game Dark Forces on PC (a FPS in the Star Wars universe). More recently, I purchased STALKER on Steam for 5$ and the way the "head " of the character moves every time you walk would make me dizzy until I installed a mod that eliminated that feature (and thus allowing me to play).
there was another game that made me sick last year but I just can't remember which one it was. I remember having to play in a well lighted room and take breaks every 30 minutes or so.
those are more the exception than the norm. I can play some FPS all day without a single problem.. it's just "some" games for some reasons...
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My fiancee can't really play anything 3d, but enjoys watching someone else play as long as you don't spin around too much.
My mom can't watch/play mariokart on snes without getting sick.
Nothing really of note since.
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It's more to do with the images on the TV are moving, giving you a sensation of movement, while everything around the TV is staying still. It confuses the brain in some people.
Oh man that sucks, I have never heard of anyone who actually threw up. Did you continue to play after?
After I cleaned it up, I tried. I was only able to play it for about 10 minutes at a time. Made the game that much longer to beat, but made my stomach very unhappy.
Gears of War 1 and Descent 3 made me sick. that's about it though. not the earlier Descents, and not Gears of War 2 though. WTF is up with that?!
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Same for me. No games really cause it, but the darkness gave it to me a little. Nothing serious, just had to stop every half-hour or so for a break.
My girlfriend had a similar experience. She played through Portal, from the beginning, all the way to
The next day, she powered through the rest of the game, determined to finally beat it. Surprisingly, she made it all the way through the rest of the game without going to the bathroom again.
She's a trooper, alright.
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Cloverfeild the movie fucking wrecked me as well. But the blair witch project didnt which is strange.
Otherwise most games are fine including FPS.
That said, the Metroid games on the Wii give me an excruciating headache anytime I just watch them for more than a couple minutes.
At this point it seems like the larger the HUD in the game the less chance of me getting sick there is. I did get sick from Fallout 3 but only when I already had a headache, since that one time I haven't had a problem. Portal was particularly bad since it has almost no HUD to speak of.
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