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I’m someone who is hyper sensitive to motion sickness. I’ll throw up after maybe five minutes of reading my phone as a passenger in a car. Mass transit is a boring hell, and it seems to be cumulative with a long recovery time. I went to Disney World last year and each day it became more difficult to ride the relatively tame rides without measured breathing and a lot of breaks.

With all that said, I can handle VR as long as it doesn’t interfere with my proprioception. That is, no movement of the camera independent of my actual head moving. As long as that holds true, and the system doesn’t lag (fixed by “time warp”, thanks John Carmack). As long as those conditions are true I can play VR without breaks for several hours at a time.



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