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So... what I'm reading is that a whole new attack vector for angry teenagers will be to mess up your display in a way designed to make you puke? Thrilling.

• abstractbeliefs 10y ago
  Hey, we already do it at my university. The Vive was a huge step up from the Rift DK2 (which is hardly a fair comparison, but that's what we had) in terms of user rejection due to sickness, but today we still have people pranking each other: gently tap the tall tripods we have the lighthouses on and it produces a barely perceptible rocking for the VR user, mostly perceptible in their stomach. It takes no more than 30s to go from perfectly fine to crippling nausea for most people in my lab.
  • eropple 10y ago
    Friends who work in this space treat this as a fireable offense. For the uninitiated, do not under any circumstances fuck with somebody in a headset--the feeling it causes can wreck an entire day. I have a strong stomach--and in VR, games that move independent of the camera don't bother me unless it's prolonged or super sudden--but I was useless for six hours after somebody ran into the lighthouse stand really hard (and caught it, but not before it swung about 30 degrees). I dropped to my knees and had to tear the headset off my head. It ranks up there with the worst experiences of my life.
  • ngokevin 10y ago
    I think OP meant virtually. Tapping on lighthouses is just like physically hitting them. Virtual attacks have bigger implications.
• Arathorn 10y ago
  pretty sure angry teenagers can mess up your display in ways to make you puke without using WebVR :D