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Film made everyone sick when it first came out as well. People will get used to the sensation, and get over it, especially as they grow up with it from childho

• dominotw 10y ago
  >Film made everyone sick when it first came out as well. i am really surprised by this. Do you have source for this claim perhaps?
  • Razengan 10y ago
    Well I for one know that the head bob back in DOOM made me nauseous, in a fun way. As did another commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796367
  • hodwik 10y ago
    "moving images on the screen aroused a physiological feeling of horror in the audience (shots of an onrushing train) or physical nausea (shots taken from a great height or with a swaying camera)" -Jurij Lotman You could research the Lumiere Brother's films, and probably find some material on the matter pretty easily. See also, the history of IMAX (70mm film). Originally invented in 1929, named Fox Gradeur,they cancelled the product for decades because it was too realistic, and was making audiences profoundly uncomfortable. I even recall reading recently that color film and television caused lots of nausea when they first hit the market. More recently, you may recall that the Blair Witch project was making audiences around the country vomit, because they were not yet accustomed to jerky handheld-style cinema: http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/08/13/usn_LA0713.001.shtml#.V0sfuXUrLeQ http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/08/13/usn_LA0713.001.shtml#...
• coldtea 10y ago
  No, it didn't -- not in the same "against evolution" way. It was just a new an unusual experience, which is something different. Else they wouldn't have gotten over it without millennia of adapting to it.