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Lucky you! I play games where using a VR headset is a competitive advantage. Racing sims and flight simulation, combat and aviation. I get quite bad motion sic
by exDM69 12y ago
Lucky you!
I play games where using a VR headset is a competitive advantage. Racing sims and flight simulation, combat and aviation. I get quite bad motion sickness from VR (DK1, DK2, both are bad), so I know that within a few years I have no chance of making it in any online multiplayer games.
Funnily enough, the first sensations of motion sickness in a flight simulator have a resemblance to what I feel when I go flying in a small aircraft. However, in real life, I get used to it, VR just keeps on getting worse and worse.
What makes it worse is that once you stop playing, the VR-induced motion sickness doesn't stop. It goes on for hours, bad balance and mild nausea. It gets worse if the lenses in the Rift are a bit off (they must be adjusted for every person), that leaves me incapable of reading or writing for the rest of the day.
So yes - it's really that big of a problem. If a 30 minute gaming session leaves a significant portion of the customers incapacitated for hours afterwards, there's no way you can call it a product and put it on the shelves.
BTW, I have high hopes for a competing product in development, the CastAR head mounted projector. It doesn't block your view of the real world so it might not cause as bad motion sickness. That also makes it viable for more serious flight simulation where the Oculus is useless because you can't see the flight controls (ie. your hands on the gaming controllers).
http://castar.com/ http://castar.com/
- commandar 12y agoHave you tried head tracking solutions like TrackIR or the open source alternatives?
- exDM69 12y agoYes, I have. They work pretty darn well. I even used the FaceTrackNoIR application which uses a bog standard webcam with face tracking, which worked fine when I didn't have a beard, but beard or glasses screws it up. You need a high frame rate camera to make it work, the Sony PlayStation Eye (60 fps, you can disable vsync, can be found cheap second hand) is a popular choice. On my TODO list is building a DIY head tracker to be used with FreeTrack or other open source tracking solutions (forgot the names). I have an extra PS Eye waiting for that but I'd need to obtain some CCTV lenses (without IR filters) for that. I don't think you have any chance of survival without a TrackIR or an Oculus in online combat flight simulators against guys who have one. Situational awareness is everything in dogfighting.
- commandar 12y agoOkay, just wanted to be sure because you're absolutely right that they're practically a requirement. Definitely build yourself an IR tracker. Should cost you less than $10 in components and it works far better than face tracking. FWIW, the FaceTrackNoIR+point tracking plugin > FreeTrack (the latter hasn't been updated in years and the former plugin is based on FreeTrack's codebase).