#simulation sickness

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Ready Player One Review

This review contains no spoilers for the movie.

Apparently I never detailed the harrowing story of how Ready Player One made me sicker nearly than I’ve ever been in my life.

So my husband and I went to go see this movie on Friday. The only regular showing was at like 10:45PM and I was like, “No, fuck that, I don’t want to wait until almost 11PM to go see this movie.” So my husband informs me there’s an earlier showing, but “it’s in IMAX.” Okay, whatever, let’s just go. I’ve heard mixed reviews about this, and I’m not particularly thrilled to see it, but I’m also trying to keep an open mind and spend time with my spouse so I want to go see it because of that.

What he fails to tell me, and I don’t realize until a theater employee is shoving glasses at me, is that this will be a 3D showing of it. Yay. Now I wear glasses already, so I am not a big fan of seeing movies in 3D just because it’s annoying to have to wear two pairs of glasses, but I digress.

We get in, order our food and drinks and settle in for a few hours of 80's shit thrust into our faces.

The movie is kind of whatever to me, it’s not amazing, but it’s not actually bad either, but I notice my neck is kind of starting to feel stiff and weird. I try to crack it repeatedly, thinking that will help it go away. No.

It creeps up the back of my skull, and then my head is throbbing. The next thing I know, Art3mis is telling Parzival they have to dance and they’re doing a big disco scene mid-air and she’s swooping around him leaving light trails. The camera is absolutely not grounded anywhere and likes to swoop around while they’re also swooping around. It’s not a good time.

I start to feel sicker than I can recall ever feeling in a long time. I can’t stand to look at the screen anymore. Everytime I try, my head throbs painfully and I feel like I’m going to get sick. I’m full of overpriced nachos and soda, so this is exceptionally unappealing.

Eventually, I give up and just take the glasses off and cover my eyes (like hands clamped over to block out as much light as I can), because even flashes of light make it all hurt again. I don’t want to leave, because I know my husband is very excited to see this movie, so I spend literally half the movie hiding my face from the screen and just trying to piece together the plot from what I can hear. It was an interesting experience. I don’t honestly remember much of it.

When I got home, I had the overwhelming urge to sleep, so I did. I slept for a day straight, no joke. I had brief periods where I would wake up, talk to a friend about how awful I felt, then doze back off.

Ready Player One literally made me so sick I had to sleep for a solid 24 hours to cope.

My husband thinks it’s simulation sickness; a subset of motion sickness. I’ve never had something set it off so bad, and I’ve seen plenty of movies in IMAX and IMAX 3D.

So this is also a cautionary tale: If you think you might even be a LITTLE BIT sensitive to getting sick because of lots of swooping camera movements and bright colors and CGI, then probably avoid this one.

[threeroadsmeet]

So here’s a fun thing

I suffer from Simulation sickness. Basically what that means is that first person video games are quite possibly the hardest thing for me. I start by getting a small headache before it flows into full blown nausea, then being honestly physically ill and depending on the video game this can happen in a matter of minutes.

Bioshock series: Bad

Dishonored series: REALLY BAD

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 : FULL ON DEATH

Borderlands Series and the Like: Good luck reviving me I'm past the point of saving

Honestly any first person game I will guaranteed have a problem. I can get through Phasmaphobia with very little problems

Side Note: I do not get motion sickness. I can ride in a boat, cars, planes, roller coasters no problem.

This is a known condition and was first spotted in the military by individuals working with flying simulators.

Two theories I've come across in my research: one is that your brain gets confused because your eyes tell your body it's moving but obviously your not. This theory I find interesting because I am actually fine with a VR headset because I am moving around with my line of sight

The other theory is that your brain interprets the images as a hallucination thus believing you are poisoned and tries to rid your body of the toxin

I Have tried a lot of ways to combat this. Sitting farther away from the screen. Those motion sickness bands that go around your wrist. Even Dramamine the motion sickness medication. All of them worked for a time and on some games I can actually get through with one of these methods. Others not so much.

IF YOU HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS ME what do you do to combat this?

[ds4techofficial]

Yes, you can get ‘simulator sickness’ from playing video games

Yes, you can get ‘simulator sickness’ from playing video games

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[quietlee]

Game-induced Motion Sickness

Is ruining my gaming experience. For years it took training my eyes (and my brain really) so that it doesn’t go fucking crazy. It’s so annoying. I can’t play FPS games for no more than 5 minutes. If I play for longer, I’m nauseated for hours and often throw up. It doesn’t help that I have severe astigmatism.

But seriously, my brain can’t keep up with my eyes, so it induces motion sickness. It’s dumb and I’m so over it.

When I was training myself on how to stop getting sick so fast, I was playing L4D when it was first released. I loved the game so much, but I couldn’t play for no more than 5 minutes. So, I forced myself to keep playing. That was fun (not!). The longer I played the worse it got, but after a while, after doing that for months at a time it became tolerable. It made playing harder though because I have to look indirectly at the screen instead of right at the screen. So, when I’m playing, I’m using most of my peripheral vision to play and instead, I’m staring at a corner of the screen.

What’s weird is that I don’t get motion sickness anywhere else in life. I can ride on boats, in cars. I can ride rollercoasters and other amusement park rides. I haven’t been on a plane yet, so I don’t know about that, but it only happens when I’m playing first-person video games. FML.

I recently tried to play Fallout 4 even with being able to play in 3rd-person but to no avail it made me sick, and I was vomiting for a couple hours. When I first played FO4 I was on an older PC, so my frames weren’t as smooth, but now that my rig is better, the frames are too smooth, so I get sick. Ain’t that some shit?

I’m going to try and see if I can change the FOV in FO4 and see if that helps any. I know there’s a way to cap my frames that way I can play the game, but I have to find it. I guess being patient and humble about gaming as a whole is why I don’t mind neglecting smoothness over comfort. If that makes any sense. I guess I’ll have to spend time retraining my brain. Yay...

Seriously though... FML. 

[an-drawer]

I have terrible motion sickness especially when PLAYING FPS

How do you deal? I can only play Borderlands 3 about an hour at a time before I feel like throwing up. :(

[femhype]

Dealing With Simulation Sickness While Gaming: Our Community Responds!

Last month, I wrote an article on simulation sickness and how to lessen or negate the effects of it. While I wrote it due to personal issues that I was having with gaming, the response from the community was overwhelming. So first off, thank you so much to everyone who shared the article and helped out people who are having trouble playing games!

There were so many good suggestions from the community that I decided to make a roundup of them here. I’m paraphrasing a lot of the comments, but if you click on the name of the person who made them, you can see their original comments in full.

For anyone who is dealing with simulation sickness (or ‘simsick’ as one person so cleverly coined the term), just remember that you are not alone and that your health always comes first!

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[sailorscarlettstarz]

I would totally be a gamer if most games didn't leave me woozy and dizzy.

[peppershrike]

Simulation sickness!  Ever get queasy playing FPSes or whilst dinking around with your phone/tablet in the car?  (I get seriously nauseous using my phone in the car, yikes.)  It's a real thing - and there are things you can do to ease it a little, fellow sufferers!