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no. 1st person perspective games make me nauseous.

No offense, but have you ever played FPS like FarCry, Crysis or Half Life? Give them a try you might like one, make sure you have good hardware before buying one of the titles.

Originally Posted by Little Wing

no. 1st person perspective games make me nauseous.

Originally Posted by nkira

No offense, but have you ever played FPS like FarCry, Crysis or Half Life? Give them a try you might like one, make sure you have good hardware before buying one of the titles.

i like them i just get motion sickness. i had a james bond one i really liked but could only play a bit at a time then the dizzy sick feeling just wasn't worth it.

Are you sure it was the game? Or was it the BOND?

it was the game. watching my son play spyro is i still help when he gets stuck but

What exactly happens to you? Just curious as this is the first time I am reading about computer games n motion sickness.

Ever tried boating?

Originally Posted by nkira

What exactly happens to you? Just curious as this is the first time I am reading about computer games n motion sickness.

Ever tried boating?

i've been deep sea fishing but have to take dramamine. some video games cause the exact same feeling as sea sickness. i can play tomb raider for days though, it's not all games but first person are no go.

Videogame Motion Sickness: Tech Clinic Diagnosis



Q: Occasionally, when I play video games, I get motion sickness. Why is that?

A: The accepted term for that particular variety of motion sickness has been called “simulator sickness,” and despite a few studies to determine its cause, nobody is quite sure why it happens.

It doesn't affect just video-game players. A 1995 report by the U.S. Army Research Institute found that almost half the military pilots who used flight simulators developed aftereffects — and 10 percent of those respondents had symptoms lasting more than 4 hours.

Like motion sickness brought on by planes and boats, simulator sickness seems to occur when there is a disagreement in the brain between what you're seeing and what your inner ear reports is actually happening. One theory about motion sickness posits that it occurs because the area postrema portion of the brain associates the visual/balance discrepancy with hallucination. Since seeing things that aren't there is often a sign of poison in the body, the brain tells the body to purge, unleashing the hot dogs.

How can you fix it? You might try sitting farther away from the screen so that it doesn't fill your field of vision. Also, experience often helps you get over it. It seems that after enough exposure to dizzying graphics, your brain learns that you don't die from poison every time you play a first-person shooter, and it lets you enjoy your fun.

That is Interesting!!

pretty cool.