Taking travel sickness pills helps, as does drinking a cap full of milk of magnesia, or even ginger, especially candied ginger. But the reason you get sick in VR is your body noticing a disconnect between your body and your eyes and assumes you're being poisoned, so it trying you to vomit up the poison.
Two other tips: 1. In the sim, lock view to horizon vs default which is locked to the car. The latter is best for monitors, but a total puke trigger in VR. 2. Setup a fan to blow at your face while in VR. The oncoming wind gives the brain some sense of forward movement to accompany the visuals and thus quell the disorientation that leads to nausea.
The horizon lock in both rotation axises helped me. I did some testing the first two days and had mega proglems but on the third day I locked both and the everything just went away. Gs made me feel funny but never to the level of nausea so I did a race (iRacing) then another and still nothing. Next weekend I did an endurance race with no problem.
Oh damn im laughin so hard at that. I believe it cause i tried for the first time last night and instantly got sick...was like 10 second before i got extreme nausea
Good tips, Dan. I made one big mistake at first because I was so excited: Oooooh, I gotta try the Lotus 72 at Norschleife! Nope, nope, nope, nope. Bad idea. I think I only made it over the first couple of hills.
Literally did the same on PC2, got in a formula car, drove around long beach and since i'm using a controller until tomorrow when i get my wheel, i kept having to reverse or full throttle spin. Best bit was when i crashed or went round a really tight hairpin with a wall right next to me. Thinking of it now makes me sick.
I got my Reverb G2 a few days ago and hopped into an F1 car immediately. Within a few seconds, I was super nauseous. It was a horrible experience. I had to step back and take a different approach. A few days later I was able to finish many laps without dying. You have to be methodical about how you start. Take it easy and don't kill yourself. Race on tracks that don't have a lot of elevation changes. Avoid looking around the track. When you are coming to a corner, look early to the apex and focus on that to limit horizontal movements that cause sickness. Make sure you get high framerates also, lower your settings on everything to get there.
Omg, I did exactly everything the vid said not to lol.. 1st try full grid at Imola. Could barely finish the lap before heading on to the most sick feeling I've ever had in my life. Not giving up thanks to this video.
Thanks for the tips mate. I got the rift last weekend and overdid it slightly :D Must have used it around 6+ hrs on saturday and again on sunday. Not constantly, but throughout the day. Only did a few laps on pcars 2 and assetto corsa. Assetto corsa turned my stomach and then that was the beginning of me having a 2 day long motion sickness hangover. Honestly, I just feel ok again now today. It's been 2 days of feeling really crappy. Kinda like I'd gotten off a boat after a long journey. I hope I haven't done any damage as anytime I even thought about VR in the last 2 days I felt sick. I'm hoping that I'll feel up to trying it again at the weekend and that things might be better this time. I ordered ginger tablets, Sea-bands and got some Dramamine, so I am at least more prepared this time :D
Good tips for those getting started in VR Dan! When I've tried VR, as long as it was a constant 90fps, I was fine. A little green every once and a while, but I haven't used it consistently. I actually get nausea from trying to watch vr videos. It's like my eyes can't figure out where to look. So I just listened to the audio in this vid and turned the video portion off.
Billy Strange Racing Yeah I have found the longer I use it less it bothers me. Definitely was not the case originally. It's funny because I get sick as a dog if I ride as a passenger in a car for 2 minutes, yet I can now run VR for hours and hours with no issue.
hello there. i dont know if helps. but maybe your problem is tryin to look everywhere.. or maybe somewhere u shouldnt, as dan said in the video. dont look around to much. watching VR videos, what u can try do is, get your yes completly fixed in somewhere and doenst matther where the video is going to.... so, there is a car in front. u look at it and only at it until he gets overtaked and desapears from screen. than u shift your look into a apex of a turn if no other car in front. something in the track it self and not outside of it. if nothing call attention to u in track look at the grandstands. look at the farest thing u can see and try follow it with your eyes until he gets off screen. try to avoid the screen shake from the guy driving, u do that with fixing your eyes where u want to and not where the video is looking at. its clear enough to make myself explained? hard when not my native language. :)
i could try explain why u get sick watching Vr. if u look into dan's Racing. he doenst look at Apexs ( he is looking into the turn it self. and he looks afters he is already on them.) so, that makes that weird feeling of the car is already turning but the image is "delayed".. im not here to publish myself by anymeans. but i have been told that i dont look to be using VR in my races, because no weird motions. when in a braking zone for a turn. im looking at the apex long ago and as soon as i know i will do that apex my head is already looking for the next one. that way the aggressive shakiness and fast movements are not there.. less sickness.
d3vil plays So you know you made me go look at your videos right?? Lol. Looks like you started using VR about 2 months ago (at least that's when your first VR video popped up. I checked them all and saw one comment. Guy asked you if you are using Oculus. Didn't see the comment you mentioned above but maybe I missed it lol. Yours look very similar to mine in the shakiness to be honest and why did you turn the hands off on the last three? That really makes me feel out of my element if the hands are gone. Anyways, I'm just busting your balls, but you got a new sub out of the deal...I'll be watching ;) See you on the track and happy racing!
Dan's Racing & Simulations hello there. Well I never said it was a comment.. I got real friends that watched and told me it. But we are not similar. May look like. I was not saying u were wrong. People got different ways to feel. U probably will wait a long time each time I'm in the mood to upload something lol. With 20 hours for a upload I don't do it very often :) and sorry if I made myself wrong about it. the shackiness u think is from the car.. and im talking about the head ... u dont do it a lot for sure. have seen worse. but thats not something anyone can fix... its the way it is.. being with oculus for 2 months or 2 years doenst mean a lot. it all depends.. i cant explain u what i want to say. but i will try with a example.. go check empty box Vr videos. he shakes is head a lot..a LOTTTTTT... if u go look at it. and u dont feel that sensation, its maybe because u can take that easier than others like me and the guy on top. :) there is another guy Ts something. he doenst shake his head.. and well easy to watch.. thats my point.
Great advice. I'm about 12 laps in. The first lap, I felt like I was floating outside the car on the first hard turn. Now I can go for a few minutes without getting that feeling.
Don’t try Dirt Rally on your second time using the oculus like I did :) Made it to the 4th corner and had to do an emergency stop! The bumps, turns, snow effects and terrain elevation didn’t go well... Fired up PC2 with a flat Racing track and a much slower car and managed to do multiple laps at a slow pace but got used to it. Gonna try again on a full stomach later on to see if it has any affects!
Zwenk Wiel that’s awesome you probably got used to it before maybe by using your phone a lot while in a moving car or something else that could have helped you get used to the motion of seeing movement but no actually moving. I’m in the process so I can play DR2
Lol I just did the same thing. First time playing DR 2.0 and first time VR on some humpy short tight track... My eyes didn't know what to do on the continuous humps and they started hurting, nasea came after 2/3 mins lol that's all for today, good thing I didn't try to push it harder
I want to see the oldschool "the eye can only see 25 fps" guys get into vr at 25 fps... as if the eye was an organ that splits its perception into frames... yeah sure
Good vid. I've had VR for over a year with no probs. Started sim racing two weeks ago and it knocked me sick, but you get used to it very quickly. Now I can race till my face hurts ;-)
I have been into VR since 2012 and have had the VIVE and Quest. I am way past the point of getting sick. First time I played “Project Cars” I played for 5 hours straight. But I always forget about it when new people try it, which is why I am watching this video.
I have tested VR goggles once, but the problem I ran into that I wanted to touch everything around me. There was a couch behind me in the demo and I had to try really hard not to try to sit on it, because I was so overwhelmed by the experience. 😄 If I had to describe the experience to someone, VR looks like reality but with worse graphics. Unfortunately the test was quite brief, so I don't really know if I'm prone to getting sick, but I will definitely get VR goggles at some point as they have became quite affordable.
Great tips! Also, close your eyes when crashing or spinning. When you get more used to VR you can keep eyes open during spins but look into the distance at a focul point until spin stops. And, if you can, add some transducers (buttkickers with simvibe or whatever) under your seat to mimick bumps and movements. Lastly as others have mentioned, a fan or 2 facing you.
Thanks Dan, very helpful tips, I'm thinking about upgrading to vr but I am a little scared with all those sick and nauseas issues, I will follow your advices and if it doesn't work there is a comment above that recommends beer, lol. I know this is not ur last video and I ve seen and liked lots of them, but until now i didn't suscribe to your channel, keep doing that great job, you earned a new subscriber from spain.
I use vr for years now and actualy never got sick in racesims. Only situation That makes my stumach turn is quick elevation changes. Or big bumps indeed. But i van imagine you Will a simular thing irl. But vr is awesome! Dont let a bump in the Road stop you from getting vr 😎. Keep up the vids! 👍🏻
Getting oculus rift in a few days. So excited. I’ve used htc vive on a demo rig did 3 laps @ Nurburgring gp circuit. Felt no nausea at all. But I’ll be keeping a bucket close to my sim rig just in case. Thanks for tips great video.
I didn't get sick much when I started in VR (although almost insta-barfed when I had my first head on with a wall!), but the one thing that you didn't mention, that I found was getting real movement for which there was no explanation in VR - that was using an office chair that can rotate, and it's slight movements when turning were making me quite ill. Short term try a dining chair (I managed to get a waiting room chair from work which does the job) .. long term goal is a racing seat equipped sim rig ;-)
I've got a Rift and a G920 paired with a DIY Ricmotech RS1 rig. My first time was actually completely void of sickness at all; was playing AC, driving a '15 Mustang GT, and on a big wide open track that had more long straightaways than corners. I thought I was in the clear. Second night, decide to drop myself in an FD RX7 Time Attack and check out Mt. Akina......and....started feeling sick inside of two minutes. Literally had to close my eyes or I was going to puke all over my setup. After watching your video, I realize I need to crawl before I walk so to speak. Going to try it again keeping your suggestions in mind. Thank you!
Update to say I have been using all these tips (including RexRaser65's tip about locking the horizon, and my own trick of eating ginger biscuits). VR games were always hit and miss for me. First time I tried a racing sim in VR I knew it wasn't for me and I would have to stick to milder games. This video made me think it was possible to get used to it. I started driving around Charlotte Speedway in a Kia very slowly. Now I can do 10 laps at full speed around Okayama in a Mazda and I am fine, even when it gets sideways. Each day I do a few more laps than before. So far so good.
those are some good tips dan. i never considered starting with closed cockpit vehicles first. with triples, sometimes going in reverse i get the......bluhhh feeling so i agree. dont go in reverse in vr🤢
The only time I've ever felt queasy in VR is if framerates were low (usually caused by a bad update or poor optimisation), and mismatched head movements, usually when head camera movement is attached to a 3D body like in Alien Isolation or non-VR skyrim, so the camera moves with the character's animation and not your head movement. Both fixed by tweaking settings, usually. Also, if you know you're about to crash/lose control, close your eyes, and when you're not, try to keep your head steady. Fun fact: At the root of all this, your body is basically noticing that the movement you see doesn't match what you feel. In the wild, the most likely reason for this is that you've eaten something toxic, so your body tries to eject it.
Thank YOU so much mate! Im giving it another Go! From Oculus which I turned purple on... The G2 REVERB will be the challenge. You tips will be so helpful. 🤜💥🤛 Ned, 🤪🤘
Thanks Dan, was playing some ATS tonight and was feeling nautious. Think I'll take it easy for a while and just run a few laps in AC alone and see how it goes.
There was only one thing I needed to stop getting nauseous in VR... BEER! Seriously. I couldn't complete more than one lap without getting ill when I first got it. I lay down on the couch for a while and browsed the net for some answers. Someone mentioned having a couple of beers beforehand. It was a Friday, so I had 2 or 3 bottles of beer then put the headset back on and went for a spin. I spent the next 4 hours racing online and never had a hint of illness. I rarely drink when I'm racing now, it's not something you need to do every time you want to use VR, it was just to get me over that initial hump.
After reading your comment I tried pc2 vr after having 3 beers. You, Sir, deserve my gratitude, because it helped better than most other tips I got. And next day I tried again without alcohol and it was pretty good! But just to be sure I keep playing for only a few minutes until I feel "safe" in those goggles.
lmao you're sure right on that "jumping into VR and wanting to look at everything" - I found that if I look straight forward and drive as if I was driving on a monitor it as ok, the SECOND I looked left or right while in motion - THROW UP
bro i felt so sick I might return this HP glasses. First run I did in a racing game no more then 10 seconds and i felt so sick I had to stop and to lie down for 1 hour and still feeling little dizzy.
I am one of those people who gets sick, I tried Gran Turismo first, 5 min then I couldn't do it anymore. Then I did Project Cars, same thing there, as soon as you loose control with the car or drive over a bump or anything I'm just out. Even tried some flight sim and that was ok with a super-light looking at the view, but the faster planes was a big no no. I still have my headset but I don't use it anymore.
Just bought a rift and as expected getting sick after a few laps just like you. ^^ Don't worry i'm not going to give up so easily :) But for me its not the driving backwards or even spinning out that makes me feel sick, But its the acceleration/deceleration and the lack of g force that my body expects.. Even more strange is that playing with a wheel makes me way more sick than with a controller 🤔 That being said Simracing in vr is mindblowing! 🙌😇
I thought I could never play racing games in VR (I can play some other types of game ok). But now I'm going to give it another try following your tips. Definitely the last one is most important about stopping before nausea: I went through a period where even *thinking* about VR would make me feel sick, I guess because my body wanted to remind me about the "poison"!
@@Joe_Brig yes. From feeling more or less immediately ill, I'm now able to run 20 lap races in iRacing with no ill effects (at least on tracks that aren't too twisty; in vehicles with roofs - but could probably do more if I put more time in and played more regularly). To do this I started out driving a few laps slowly around an oval, and gradually increased what I was doing over about 10 evenings.
i just bought my oculus rift to go along my sim rig.Was so excited and fired up Assetto Corsa in SPA and at the first uphilf after 1 minute felt so sick i had to take it off. Then i followed some tips like lowering settings to achieve contant 90fps and locked view to horizon in settings which is good for VR. By default it is in locked view to car which is good for monitor setup. After these two things on my second day i could do 6-7 turns more and felt a little less sick. Baby steps...3rd day today...
Also guys watch your replay in cockpit mode and slowly start to look around out the side windows and even turn around and look behind the car. This helps to train the mind to avoid the motion sickness.
my tip is to go and download youtube vr...and search for those 360 roller coaster videos..and just watch them..if you feel nausea just close your eyes then when you feel ok again open and continue to watch...a couple of these tries...you will get use to it easily...
Thanks a lot man. You saved my vr life. I started with a lap at 10mph focusing in the panel of the car and make the curves almost stopping the car and slowly started to look the road moving and when the sickness started to come I go back to focus on the car panel and was doing so until I observe that in the straights I was ok, even accelerating the car. But make curves was still a problem and had to almost stop the car, but the car panel was there to save me from motion and was following your advices to not look to the sides and believe me, I think after 30 minutes of this discipline, trying to look at the road time after time, I was capable to do a five lap race. The circuit I chose to do this was Monza, starting with a gt85 and then a Porsche carreta gt and make the race with a Ferrari 812 super fast, all in assetto corsa. Came here to thank you and share this experience with you and your followers. Sorry by some English errors. I am Brazilian.
I guess I am not cut for VR games because my simulator sickness kicked in while watching your video on my computer. (only made it to 3:51 secs in) and I didn't even had the video maximized! For those wondering if maybe I need to upgrade my computer screen or video card. I have a GeForce RTX 2080 TI 11GB OC from ROG and a 144Hz Monitor. I was told in the past to 'just upgrade your video card and monitor'. Its not the computer parts. its just shaky movement that makes me sick. I can never play FPS games because of that.
No mater what I do I can’t use VR. I race real cars and also instruct students, they also get me sick at times. I feel I have a good ability to sense the cars attitude and when it’s loose or tight from the seat of my pants. It’s what makes me good in the real car, but hurts when trying VR. I also don’t want VR to hurt my real racing, I would rather keep this heightened sense on the real track than screw it up.
@@bongdan I found thing that help. Running a really high frame rate, making sure the wheel is properly calibrated, and putting a fan on me, all helped. But if i dont use it practically everyday, I still will get sick
ive heard pushing through it makes it worse, means you will always in future associate feeling sick with vr. to the point you might suddenly feel a bit nauseous just at the thought of putting the headset on alone. best to do 5-10 minute bursts and stop at the slightest sign of nausea. the thing about it is it keeps growing. you stop feeling not to bad, watch some tv, it still keeps slowly getting worse and worse, even though you stoppped.,. and can even make you feel off all day the next day, so in those first few weeks/ months. its best to just do lots of regular very very short and cautious bursts. and slowly work your way upwards. first starting with the safest vr experiences. with the least movement etc. also, experiment to see what works best for you, i find if im standing up it helps alot, in all games. except of course racing., but for some reason ive never had a problem with those. i guess its having a real wheel etc in the same place irl as in game so you feel like you are there/ in control. and dont move your head around much either. i still cant do snap turning, the mere thought of it terrifies me. i can play onward or pavlov with free locomotion for hours 100% fine, but one or two snap turns and im done, lol
@@Stewbob112 yeah, its a horrible feeling. you will get past it though, i havnt felt sick at all playing vr in a while. admittedly i only play a couple times a week tops these days. and in short sessions. demoed it to some mates a few weeks ago and they loved it (robo recall mostly, and richies plank experience with real plank) and none of them mentioned feeling sick. my brother keeps complaining games dont have turn/rotate with analogue stick, lol. he must have a strong stomach. i still cant handle that one. i have to turn irl, or with snap turning, or my eyes closed. im not even going to bother trying to get used to that one. im 100% fine with free locomotion and dirt rally/racing games etc these days. so thats good enough for me. but artificial turning? no way, lol. anyway. hope you get through it ok, and if reading this makes you feel sick at the mere though of it... sorry :)
wotever99ninynine Hamilton glad to hear then. I’m on my way right now to go buy an HTC Vive. And the snappy analog stick turning is what totally got me in Skyrim VR combined with the crazy fast running. That screwed me up. I can handle driving and racing games for the most part though.
How true! Was put off the night itself and I barely wanted to touch my rift at all.. Was so hyped over vr the past few years and then wham!! All gone in 2 minutes lol. My 3rd day today.. Been doin 2 minutes sessions yesterday and hopefully it'll come to pass.
Another thing to help is Ginger ... Whether it be a can of ginger Beer or a Ginger Biscuit or suck on a bit or crystalised Ginger . It's a natural combatant against Nausea. Be Careful with VR If you have a perforated eardrum or any other kind of inner ear problems as this can be a big downer. I Had to sell my rift as my rig couldn't keep up the 90fps well enough to keep me smiling not vomiting . I used to get real bad bouts & the Nausea would last up to 48 hrs ! , that was really horrible .... In time when I can afford a better rig , then I will no doubt return & give it another go as you said it yourself , the Feeling is Immense !
The only way for me to get the motionsickness away, was driving, driving and driving. At the beginning after one round, i was total sick. Now i can drive nonstop.
Once you get the Rift or Vive dialed in there is no way to go back to triples. Also found that after a few weeks, you'll be able to play in VR for ages without sickness.
I had my first time in VR with the ASR F2004 mod on Monza in Assetto Corsa and didnt feel all that bad afterwards but then i tried Gt3 Nordschleife in Raceroom and nearly died from sickness. I havent tried it much since but with the tips in this video i might pick it up again.
I didn´t have much trouble at all unless with drifting on those situations when you are really sideways looking trough the side windows while moving forward... by forward I mean, sideways hehe.. watching onboard replays causes me some sickness too... the roller coaster thing made me really sick, but driving sims, whatever car or track is rarely a problem.
Thankfully I never got sick while sim racing. I just jumped in and never had a problem. There are some instances where I’ve gotten dizzy but not sick. The one time I did get sick was in DCS World pulling hard Gs inverted in a F-15. I thought I was gonna blow chunks...luckily my ingame body blacked out and all I could see was black.
Vic Covemaecker Yes it is possible. I run endurance races using VR. My forehead gets hot long before I feel sick so I just setup a fan in front of me. But yes, if you get past the "sick" part you can run for hours easily!
keep your face cool also. i have two small fans that blow in my face at all times. keeps me from fogging up since i wear glasses, plus it feels like the wind is blowing in your face while driving...lol
For me, I own an Oculus Rift and a Thrustmaster T300RS Alcantara. The problem is, the Oculus's visuals don't look very good from out of the cockpit but everything on the interior looks great. This alone makes me feel sick. Another problem I have is that in Assetto Corsa, (because I'm so short, 5.1") I'm always below the driver and also can't see the track very well unless I my seats all the way up and I'm not leaning back. Doing that for long periods of time is very uncomfortable especially in long races such as endurance races which are also, sadly my favorite to compete in.
once i get my rift s ill either drive in akina (lots of sharp turns) or in wangan (speed waries between 160-300 constantly) i know i should start easy, but ill try to drive slow at first, then speed up, ten seconds into 200+ kmph and run to the bathroom to throw up :)
I just don't understand how people get motion sick when playing on a decent PC with a properly set up Rift! When I first got my mobile VR I broke out in sweat within minutes. As time progressed, minutes turned into hours. Now, I don't sweat anymore, instead, I get a headache and want to vomit. So, I dropped mobile VR completely (literally packed it away last night) as my phone (LG G2) isn't providing the proper experience as my friends Samsung Galaxy S7 did (I never got sick while using her S7). However, when I played Space Pirate Trainer on the HTC Vive however, I was solid! The experience was great! In fact, I was ducking and dodging laser beams as if I played it before.
To continue a conversation we’ve had from another video: the 90fps is confusing me a little. Because I can see how you can measure that on your monitor/tv but not in the headset. The NVIDEA settings panel is only measuring FPS on screen but not in the headset. Have I got this wrong? UPDATE: I ran a couple of laps before I got nauseous, this tip is gold. Although I want to jump straight back in, I’ll leave it an hour or so, thanks Dan
Jamiedh303 Awesome! Yeah just give it some time and take it slow. You'll be running full races before you know it. The image shown on screen is just a direct mirror of the image in the rift so the counter on screen should be a direct reflection of the fps you are getting inside the headset. Your computer is only actually rendering the image inside the headset. The image on screen is more like a "video" or a "live replay" kind of... well you get the idea. The fps you see on screen is what you are getting inside the rift, or should be theoretically.
Dan's Racing & Simulations mMagic, thanks. Understood. Yeah, the racing is getting slightly better. I don’t want to put a timescale on it, easy as she goes, is my mantra
It's weird...my motion sickness has gotten better with VR but yesterday I was on the bus and I felt nauseous for the first time on a bus...it was like reverse motion sickness!
When I get vr imma do the exact opposed of this to just get a baseline of ok it cant get anyworse than this. So everytime I start to get sick I just push a little bc I think, I had it worse the fiirst time. So it feels like I achieved some resistance against it.
Be careful. It's better to stop *before* you feel sick, because your brain can start to associate even wearing the headset with the sick feeling and you end up feeling it before you even put it on.
Great video. I have an Oculus, but I held off AC because I'm getting sick almost immediately. Plus, my 2x970 weren't working in VR so I was getting annoying stutters. I think they fixed it since then, so I'm gonna retry it soon, plus there's the horizon thing I forgot to enable (it stayed locked and that's wrong).
Thanks for all the info. Getting my wheel soon and I am really interested in getting into racing. I know iracing is not the place to start. However, 2 years are on sale for new people for 99 dollars. I am going to play project cars 2 and I think you suggested assetto corsa. Also if i do get asetto corsa is there somewhere to look so I make sure I buy what I need and not buy cars/tracks that I will never use. I think I would like road racing and then some nascar as an end game. but I will only do one at a time.
So Laguna Sega with an Indy car to start would be a great idea? Just kidding. As someone else stated a good transducer will fix all and turn up your force feedback.
I still find it crazy that people get sick from sim racing. I was nervous myself and thought maybe its not a good idea to go with VR. I was wrong though, sim racing I've had zero issues. Now when I did the space app I think its called home, when I climbed out of the ship for the first time my stomach dropped.
Hi, You mentioned the most important is the 90 fps. Oculus Ridt S can only do 80Hz so the maximum fps is 80. Does it cause problem? Should I look after better VR? I haven’t bought anything yet just I tried Rift S and I felt sick.
until VR ultrawide gets better im out. Most Vr headsets lack peripheral vision as the screens are not wide. Not to mention the GPU power needed to run an ultrawide VR headset.
I want to do VR soo bad but between the video card prices and the Rift cost is a big nibble.. I also expect to have motion issues since I used to get really barfed out just play a PS3 shooter on a 65" HDTV..
Though I have no problem getting sick... my eyes lost focus of the screen and get tired even if I got the focus right at the beginning... what can I do?
ネギ＆FISH Hmmm, that is strange. I've not heard of that happening. Do you wear glasses or contacts normally? You're headset may be too tight or too loose causing you to have to strain your eyes to see the image. That might be making your eyes tired. I get better results the tighter I have the headset on. Also consider using eye drops so your eyes don't dry out. That can strain them as well.
ah yes>< I have irregular short eyesight of my left and right eye (and I don't wear glasses when I use VR since I felt uncomfortable when glasses pressing to my face >
I tried VR once and got quite nauseous but wanna get it for simracing. My rotatable desk chair does not irritate me now, but will it contribute to getting sick?
DOF REALITY P3 MOTION RIG. HP REVERB G2 JUST GOT 3 DAYS AGO. 3 LAPS ON IRACING IN RALLYCROSS ON DAYTONA LONG = PUKED. TODAY TRIED AGAIN...10 LAPS IN, PUKED. HEADSET 85-90 FPS CONSTANT. THINK I JUST WASTED $600. CRY.
Lmao the first things I did was get into a formula style car starting looking to the left and right spinning out and stopping fast and crashing I lasted about 45 seconds before I had to take it off
LOL, my mate almost yacked on GT sport, I don't get it, an when I did on ace combat 7, I just rode it out, I admit yeah almost felt sick, but I am the guy who rides the biggest fastest highest rides, disney land in paris got bad ass rides, but yeah motion sickness don't bother me..............
tip no. 1: get druck. tip no. 2 there is not more tips just drive. ive never gotten sick in vr when drunk. i still get sick easy when i play sober though, so i dont play much during the week, (sober) i usually have a few beets on friday or saturday and play a few hours of onward or dirt rally and im set. so much fun :) you dont need to get drunk, just ya know. lightly buzzed. maybe its some sort of placebo affect, it happened once or twice, i noticed the pattern, decided it meant i couldnt get sick drunk and therefore i dont. who knows ,also makes sense that when drunk your brain knows not to believe or trust all your senses too much, it knows from experience ;)
Out of curiosity, how do you go about figuring out FOV when using VR? I got a Microsoft mixed reality headset over boxing day. I'm just waiting for it to come in so I can try it out.
BCJM76 VR & MR are typically at a 1 to 1 FOV meaning they will be the perfect realistic FOV right out of the box. Everything should be the correct sizes and distances should be as accurate as they possibly could be. You can however adjust your seat/head position to make sure your mirrors and things are to your liking but I wouldn't make any FOV adjustments.
Taking travel sickness pills helps, as does drinking a cap full of milk of magnesia, or even ginger, especially candied ginger.
But the reason you get sick in VR is your body noticing a disconnect between your body and your eyes and assumes you're being poisoned, so it trying you to vomit up the poison.
Didn't expect to see you here
Two other tips:
1. In the sim, lock view to horizon vs default which is locked to the car. The latter is best for monitors, but a total puke trigger in VR.
2. Setup a fan to blow at your face while in VR. The oncoming wind gives the brain some sense of forward movement to accompany the visuals and thus quell the disorientation that leads to nausea.
Do you happen to know how to activate the lock to horizon setting in Assetto Corsa?
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At work right now, not at my gaming pc. I think it's under the Video or View. It's a check box to "Lock onboard camera to horizon"
The horizon lock in both rotation axises helped me. I did some testing the first two days and had mega proglems but on the third day I locked both and the everything just went away. Gs made me feel funny but never to the level of nausea so I did a race (iRacing) then another and still nothing. Next weekend I did an endurance race with no problem.
everyone recommending fans ..... they are very unhealthy
@@coinsagE46m3 did you figured up how to lock in AC?
When I tired Project Cars 2 on my quest 2 I pressed on the gas pedal and threw up simultaneously. It was that fast.
Oh damn im laughin so hard at that. I believe it cause i tried for the first time last night and instantly got sick...was like 10 second before i got extreme nausea
A tip you didn’t mention: close your eyes when you moving from the pause menu in AC to the regular menu. The sudden jerk is very disconcerting.
tl;dr: grab a bucket and launch Dirt Rally.
best advice ever, thx! :-D
Dirt rally don't do this for me, not even ace combat 7....
Andreas Otto 😂🤣
Good tips, Dan.
I made one big mistake at first because I was so excited: Oooooh, I gotta try the Lotus 72 at Norschleife! Nope, nope, nope, nope. Bad idea. I think I only made it over the first couple of hills.
AardvarkDK yeah that will get you every time lol
When I first got vr I tried dirt rally while still sitting in a swiveling office chair. Bad idea.
Literally did the same on PC2, got in a formula car, drove around long beach and since i'm using a controller until tomorrow when i get my wheel, i kept having to reverse or full throttle spin. Best bit was when i crashed or went round a really tight hairpin with a wall right next to me. Thinking of it now makes me sick.
I got my Reverb G2 a few days ago and hopped into an F1 car immediately. Within a few seconds, I was super nauseous. It was a horrible experience. I had to step back and take a different approach. A few days later I was able to finish many laps without dying. You have to be methodical about how you start. Take it easy and don't kill yourself. Race on tracks that don't have a lot of elevation changes. Avoid looking around the track. When you are coming to a corner, look early to the apex and focus on that to limit horizontal movements that cause sickness. Make sure you get high framerates also, lower your settings on everything to get there.
Omg, I did exactly everything the vid said not to lol.. 1st try full grid at Imola. Could barely finish the lap before heading on to the most sick feeling I've ever had in my life. Not giving up thanks to this video.
Unfortunately Rift S is only capable of 80 frames per second
Thanks for the tips mate. I got the rift last weekend and overdid it slightly :D Must have used it around 6+ hrs on saturday and again on sunday. Not constantly, but throughout the day. Only did a few laps on pcars 2 and assetto corsa. Assetto corsa turned my stomach and then that was the beginning of me having a 2 day long motion sickness hangover.
Honestly, I just feel ok again now today. It's been 2 days of feeling really crappy. Kinda like I'd gotten off a boat after a long journey.
I hope I haven't done any damage as anytime I even thought about VR in the last 2 days I felt sick. I'm hoping that I'll feel up to trying it again at the weekend and that things might be better this time.
I ordered ginger tablets, Sea-bands and got some Dramamine, so I am at least more prepared this time :D
Good tips for those getting started in VR Dan! When I've tried VR, as long as it was a constant 90fps, I was fine. A little green every once and a while, but I haven't used it consistently. I actually get nausea from trying to watch vr videos. It's like my eyes can't figure out where to look. So I just listened to the audio in this vid and turned the video portion off.
Billy Strange Racing Yeah I have found the longer I use it less it bothers me. Definitely was not the case originally. It's funny because I get sick as a dog if I ride as a passenger in a car for 2 minutes, yet I can now run VR for hours and hours with no issue.
hello there. i dont know if helps. but maybe your problem is tryin to look everywhere.. or maybe somewhere u shouldnt, as dan said in the video. dont look around to much.
watching VR videos, what u can try do is, get your yes completly fixed in somewhere and doenst matther where the video is going to.... so, there is a car in front. u look at it and only at it until he gets overtaked and desapears from screen. than u shift your look into a apex of a turn if no other car in front. something in the track it self and not outside of it. if nothing call attention to u in track look at the grandstands. look at the farest thing u can see and try follow it with your eyes until he gets off screen. try to avoid the screen shake from the guy driving, u do that with fixing your eyes where u want to and not where the video is looking at. its clear enough to make myself explained? hard when not my native language. :)
i could try explain why u get sick watching Vr. if u look into dan's Racing. he doenst look at Apexs ( he is looking into the turn it self. and he looks afters he is already on them.) so, that makes that weird feeling of the car is already turning but the image is "delayed".. im not here to publish myself by anymeans. but i have been told that i dont look to be using VR in my races, because no weird motions. when in a braking zone for a turn. im looking at the apex long ago and as soon as i know i will do that apex my head is already looking for the next one. that way the aggressive shakiness and fast movements are not there.. less sickness.
d3vil plays So you know you made me go look at your videos right?? Lol. Looks like you started using VR about 2 months ago (at least that's when your first VR video popped up. I checked them all and saw one comment. Guy asked you if you are using Oculus. Didn't see the comment you mentioned above but maybe I missed it lol. Yours look very similar to mine in the shakiness to be honest and why did you turn the hands off on the last three? That really makes me feel out of my element if the hands are gone. Anyways, I'm just busting your balls, but you got a new sub out of the deal...I'll be watching ;) See you on the track and happy racing!
Dan's Racing & Simulations hello there. Well I never said it was a comment.. I got real friends that watched and told me it. But we are not similar. May look like. I was not saying u were wrong. People got different ways to feel. U probably will wait a long time each time I'm in the mood to upload something lol. With 20 hours for a upload I don't do it very often :) and sorry if I made myself wrong about it. the shackiness u think is from the car.. and im talking about the head ... u dont do it a lot for sure. have seen worse. but thats not something anyone can fix... its the way it is.. being with oculus for 2 months or 2 years doenst mean a lot. it all depends.. i cant explain u what i want to say. but i will try with a example.. go check empty box Vr videos. he shakes is head a lot..a LOTTTTTT... if u go look at it. and u dont feel that sensation, its maybe because u can take that easier than others like me and the guy on top. :)
there is another guy Ts something. he doenst shake his head.. and well easy to watch.. thats my point.
Great tips. My first time in Driveclub got me sick in 20 seconds and I feel I've made every mistake you've listed.
I did everything you said not to do the first time. Sick for 3 days lol Thanks for this...
Great advice. I'm about 12 laps in. The first lap, I felt like I was floating outside the car on the first hard turn. Now I can go for a few minutes without getting that feeling.
Don’t try Dirt Rally on your second time using the oculus like I did :) Made it to the 4th corner and had to do an emergency stop! The bumps, turns, snow effects and terrain elevation didn’t go well... Fired up PC2 with a flat Racing track and a much slower car and managed to do multiple laps at a slow pace but got used to it. Gonna try again on a full stomach later on to see if it has any affects!
Man, rally 2.0 was the first game i attempted. Made it around 3 turns and was done haha
Zwenk Wiel that’s awesome you probably got used to it before maybe by using your phone a lot while in a moving car or something else that could have helped you get used to the motion of seeing movement but no actually moving. I’m in the process so I can play DR2
Lol I just did the same thing. First time playing DR 2.0 and first time VR on some humpy short tight track... My eyes didn't know what to do on the continuous humps and they started hurting, nasea came after 2/3 mins lol that's all for today, good thing I didn't try to push it harder
I want to see the oldschool "the eye can only see 25 fps" guys get into vr at 25 fps... as if the eye was an organ that splits its perception into frames...
yeah sure
Good vid. I've had VR for over a year with no probs. Started sim racing two weeks ago and it knocked me sick, but you get used to it very quickly. Now I can race till my face hurts ;-)
I have been into VR since 2012 and have had the VIVE and Quest. I am way past the point of getting sick. First time I played “Project Cars” I played for 5 hours straight. But I always forget about it when new people try it, which is why I am watching this video.
I have tested VR goggles once, but the problem I ran into that I wanted to touch everything around me. There was a couch behind me in the demo and I had to try really hard not to try to sit on it, because I was so overwhelmed by the experience. 😄
If I had to describe the experience to someone, VR looks like reality but with worse graphics. Unfortunately the test was quite brief, so I don't really know if I'm prone to getting sick, but I will definitely get VR goggles at some point as they have became quite affordable.
Great tips! Also, close your eyes when crashing or spinning. When you get more used to VR you can keep eyes open during spins but look into the distance at a focul point until spin stops. And, if you can, add some transducers (buttkickers with simvibe or whatever) under your seat to mimick bumps and movements. Lastly as others have mentioned, a fan or 2 facing you.
I found the open top cars much better than being inside the interior.
asw provides absolutely smooth experiences, artifacts are not problem for sickness, its a different matter
Thanks Dan, very helpful tips, I'm thinking about upgrading to vr but I am a little scared with all those sick and nauseas issues, I will follow your advices and if it doesn't work there is a comment above that recommends beer, lol. I know this is not ur last video and I ve seen and liked lots of them, but until now i didn't suscribe to your channel, keep doing that great job, you earned a new subscriber from spain.
I use vr for years now and actualy never got sick in racesims. Only situation That makes my stumach turn is quick elevation changes. Or big bumps indeed. But i van imagine you Will a simular thing irl. But vr is awesome! Dont let a bump in the Road stop you from getting vr 😎. Keep up the vids! 👍🏻
One of my first experiences in VR was a GT3 car around Sanoma. I felt sick 5 turns in.
Getting oculus rift in a few days. So excited. I’ve used htc vive on a demo rig did 3 laps @ Nurburgring gp circuit. Felt no nausea at all. But I’ll be keeping a bucket close to my sim rig just in case. Thanks for tips great video.
I didn't get sick much when I started in VR (although almost insta-barfed when I had my first head on with a wall!), but the one thing that you didn't mention, that I found was getting real movement for which there was no explanation in VR - that was using an office chair that can rotate, and it's slight movements when turning were making me quite ill.
Short term try a dining chair (I managed to get a waiting room chair from work which does the job) .. long term goal is a racing seat equipped sim rig ;-)
Hmm, I have had my best not getting sick experiences in open wheel cars, fixed camera
I've got a Rift and a G920 paired with a DIY Ricmotech RS1 rig. My first time was actually completely void of sickness at all; was playing AC, driving a '15 Mustang GT, and on a big wide open track that had more long straightaways than corners. I thought I was in the clear. Second night, decide to drop myself in an FD RX7 Time Attack and check out Mt. Akina......and....started feeling sick inside of two minutes. Literally had to close my eyes or I was going to puke all over my setup.
After watching your video, I realize I need to crawl before I walk so to speak. Going to try it again keeping your suggestions in mind. Thank you!
Update to say I have been using all these tips (including RexRaser65's tip about locking the horizon, and my own trick of eating ginger biscuits). VR games were always hit and miss for me. First time I tried a racing sim in VR I knew it wasn't for me and I would have to stick to milder games. This video made me think it was possible to get used to it. I started driving around Charlotte Speedway in a Kia very slowly. Now I can do 10 laps at full speed around Okayama in a Mazda and I am fine, even when it gets sideways. Each day I do a few more laps than before. So far so good.
those are some good tips dan. i never considered starting with closed cockpit vehicles first. with triples, sometimes going in reverse i get the......bluhhh feeling so i agree. dont go in reverse in vr🤢
tom jones Thanks Tom!
oohh yes - reverse is insta barf :)
The only time I've ever felt queasy in VR is if framerates were low (usually caused by a bad update or poor optimisation), and mismatched head movements, usually when head camera movement is attached to a 3D body like in Alien Isolation or non-VR skyrim, so the camera moves with the character's animation and not your head movement. Both fixed by tweaking settings, usually.
Also, if you know you're about to crash/lose control, close your eyes, and when you're not, try to keep your head steady.
Fun fact: At the root of all this, your body is basically noticing that the movement you see doesn't match what you feel. In the wild, the most likely reason for this is that you've eaten something toxic, so your body tries to eject it.
Thanks, went over Silverstone in the arbarth just cruising and going slowly. Didnt really feel sick compared to my first go.
My tips are: close your eyes if your are about to crash or spin. Then open them again when ur sure you're standing still
Thank YOU so much mate!
Im giving it another Go!
From Oculus which I turned purple on...
The G2 REVERB will be the challenge.
You tips will be so helpful.
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Ned, 🤪🤘
Thanks Dan, was playing some ATS tonight and was feeling nautious. Think I'll take it easy for a while and just run a few laps in AC alone and see how it goes.
There was only one thing I needed to stop getting nauseous in VR... BEER!
Seriously. I couldn't complete more than one lap without getting ill when I first got it. I lay down on the couch for a while and browsed the net for some answers. Someone mentioned having a couple of beers beforehand. It was a Friday, so I had 2 or 3 bottles of beer then put the headset back on and went for a spin. I spent the next 4 hours racing online and never had a hint of illness.
I rarely drink when I'm racing now, it's not something you need to do every time you want to use VR, it was just to get me over that initial hump.
Doing that would have never crossed my mind!
After reading your comment I tried pc2 vr after having 3 beers. You, Sir, deserve my gratitude, because it helped better than most other tips I got. And next day I tried again without alcohol and it was pretty good! But just to be sure I keep playing for only a few minutes until I feel "safe" in those goggles.
You can't really puck when you have motion sickness in VR. But the only people I kown that succed were a bit drunk... (Just saying)
lmao you're sure right on that "jumping into VR and wanting to look at everything" - I found that if I look straight forward and drive as if I was driving on a monitor it as ok, the SECOND I looked left or right while in motion - THROW UP
bro i felt so sick I might return this HP glasses. First run I did in a racing game no more then 10 seconds and i felt so sick I had to stop and to lie down for 1 hour and still feeling little dizzy.
same man, I duno if i'll be able to get over it since i get motion sick very easily and like you only lasted like 10 seconds
@@vrtdubber yea I returned them, is no fun, i dont know how this guys plays with them.
I am one of those people who gets sick, I tried Gran Turismo first, 5 min then I couldn't do it anymore. Then I did Project Cars, same thing there, as soon as you loose control with the car or drive over a bump or anything I'm just out. Even tried some flight sim and that was ok with a super-light looking at the view, but the faster planes was a big no no. I still have my headset but I don't use it anymore.
Just bought a rift and as expected getting sick after a few laps just like you. ^^
Don't worry i'm not going to give up so easily :)
But for me its not the driving backwards or even spinning out that makes me feel sick, But its the acceleration/deceleration and the lack of g force that my body expects.. Even more strange is that playing with a wheel makes me way more sick than with a controller 🤔
That being said Simracing in vr is mindblowing! 🙌😇
Yeah just keep at it with short sessions and gradually add more time in. Just takes lots of breaks!
I thought I could never play racing games in VR (I can play some other types of game ok). But now I'm going to give it another try following your tips. Definitely the last one is most important about stopping before nausea: I went through a period where even *thinking* about VR would make me feel sick, I guess because my body wanted to remind me about the "poison"!
Did the tips work for you?
@@Joe_Brig yes. From feeling more or less immediately ill, I'm now able to run 20 lap races in iRacing with no ill effects (at least on tracks that aren't too twisty; in vehicles with roofs - but could probably do more if I put more time in and played more regularly). To do this I started out driving a few laps slowly around an oval, and gradually increased what I was doing over about 10 evenings.
i just bought my oculus rift to go along my sim rig.Was so excited and fired up Assetto Corsa in SPA and at the first uphilf after 1 minute felt so sick i had to take it off. Then i followed some tips like lowering settings to achieve contant 90fps and locked view to horizon in settings which is good for VR. By default it is in locked view to car which is good for monitor setup.
After these two things on my second day i could do 6-7 turns more and felt a little less sick.
Baby steps...3rd day today...
Also guys watch your replay in cockpit mode and slowly start to look around out the side windows and even turn around and look behind the car. This helps to train the mind to avoid the motion sickness.
my tip is to go and download youtube vr...and search for those 360 roller coaster videos..and just watch them..if you feel nausea just close your eyes then when you feel ok again open and continue to watch...a couple of these tries...you will get use to it easily...
Thanks a lot man. You saved my vr life. I started with a lap at 10mph focusing in the panel of the car and make the curves almost stopping the car and slowly started to look the road moving and when the sickness started to come I go back to focus on the car panel and was doing so until I observe that in the straights I was ok, even accelerating the car.
But make curves was still a problem and had to almost stop the car, but the car panel was there to save me from motion and was following your advices to not look to the sides and believe me, I think after 30 minutes of this discipline, trying to look at the road time after time, I was capable to do a five lap race. The circuit I chose to do this was Monza, starting with a gt85 and then a Porsche carreta gt and make the race with a Ferrari 812 super fast, all in assetto corsa. Came here to thank you and share this experience with you and your followers.
Sorry by some English errors. I am Brazilian.
Glad it worked for you you! Happy racing my friend!
Thanks for the advice .. considering VR and will accumulate as you suggest
I guess I am not cut for VR games because my simulator sickness kicked in while watching your video on my computer. (only made it to 3:51 secs in) and I didn't even had the video maximized!
For those wondering if maybe I need to upgrade my computer screen or video card. I have a GeForce RTX 2080 TI 11GB OC from ROG and a 144Hz Monitor. I was told in the past to 'just upgrade your video card and monitor'. Its not the computer parts. its just shaky movement that makes me sick. I can never play FPS games because of that.
No mater what I do I can’t use VR. I race real cars and also instruct students, they also get me sick at times. I feel I have a good ability to sense the cars attitude and when it’s loose or tight from the seat of my pants. It’s what makes me good in the real car, but hurts when trying VR. I also don’t want VR to hurt my real racing, I would rather keep this heightened sense on the real track than screw it up.
I drifted about 10 feet, one time using VR, and was sick and dizzy for about 8 hours. Crazy.
did you ever fix it ? i pretty much have same
@@bongdan I found thing that help. Running a really high frame rate, making sure the wheel is properly calibrated, and putting a fan on me, all helped. But if i dont use it practically everyday, I still will get sick
ive heard pushing through it makes it worse, means you will always in future associate feeling sick with vr. to the point you might suddenly feel a bit nauseous just at the thought of putting the headset on alone. best to do 5-10 minute bursts and stop at the slightest sign of nausea. the thing about it is it keeps growing. you stop feeling not to bad, watch some tv, it still keeps slowly getting worse and worse, even though you stoppped.,. and can even make you feel off all day the next day, so in those first few weeks/ months. its best to just do lots of regular very very short and cautious bursts. and slowly work your way upwards. first starting with the safest vr experiences. with the least movement etc. also, experiment to see what works best for you, i find if im standing up it helps alot, in all games. except of course racing., but for some reason ive never had a problem with those. i guess its having a real wheel etc in the same place irl as in game so you feel like you are there/ in control. and dont move your head around much either.
i still cant do snap turning, the mere thought of it terrifies me. i can play onward or pavlov with free locomotion for hours 100% fine, but one or two snap turns and im done, lol
wotever99ninynine Hamilton that’s me at the moment. Even thinking of VR starts to make me feel like shit. I’m working on fixing that though.
@@Stewbob112 yeah, its a horrible feeling. you will get past it though, i havnt felt sick at all playing vr in a while. admittedly i only play a couple times a week tops these days. and in short sessions. demoed it to some mates a few weeks ago and they loved it (robo recall mostly, and richies plank experience with real plank) and none of them mentioned feeling sick. my brother keeps complaining games dont have turn/rotate with analogue stick, lol. he must have a strong stomach. i still cant handle that one. i have to turn irl, or with snap turning, or my eyes closed. im not even going to bother trying to get used to that one. im 100% fine with free locomotion and dirt rally/racing games etc these days. so thats good enough for me. but artificial turning? no way, lol.
anyway. hope you get through it ok, and if reading this makes you feel sick at the mere though of it... sorry :)
wotever99ninynine Hamilton glad to hear then. I’m on my way right now to go buy an HTC Vive. And the snappy analog stick turning is what totally got me in Skyrim VR combined with the crazy fast running. That screwed me up. I can handle driving and racing games for the most part though.
@@Stewbob112 thats good then, enjoy the vive! :)
How true! Was put off the night itself and I barely wanted to touch my rift at all.. Was so hyped over vr the past few years and then wham!! All gone in 2 minutes lol. My 3rd day today.. Been doin 2 minutes sessions yesterday and hopefully it'll come to pass.
Another thing to help is Ginger ... Whether it be a can of ginger Beer or a Ginger Biscuit or suck on a bit or crystalised Ginger . It's a natural combatant against Nausea. Be Careful with VR If you have a perforated eardrum or any other kind of inner ear problems as this can be a big downer. I Had to sell my rift as my rig couldn't keep up the 90fps well enough to keep me smiling not vomiting . I used to get real bad bouts & the Nausea would last up to 48 hrs ! , that was really horrible .... In time when I can afford a better rig , then I will no doubt return & give it another go as you said it yourself , the Feeling is Immense !
Thank you , got sick yesterday i wil try again just few laps.
The only way for me to get the motionsickness away, was driving, driving and driving. At the beginning after one round, i was total sick. Now i can drive nonstop.
Once you get the Rift or Vive dialed in there is no way to go back to triples. Also found that after a few weeks, you'll be able to play in VR for ages without sickness.
I had my first time in VR with the ASR F2004 mod on Monza in Assetto Corsa and didnt feel all that bad afterwards but then i tried Gt3 Nordschleife in Raceroom and nearly died from sickness. I havent tried it much since but with the tips in this video i might pick it up again.
I didn´t have much trouble at all unless with drifting on those situations when you are really sideways looking trough the side windows while moving forward... by forward I mean, sideways hehe.. watching onboard replays causes me some sickness too... the roller coaster thing made me really sick, but driving sims, whatever car or track is rarely a problem.
I was lucky. Only thing I got was feeling a little strange in my head the first couple times, and that was dirt track on iRacing.
Thankfully I never got sick while sim racing. I just jumped in and never had a problem. There are some instances where I’ve gotten dizzy but not sick.
The one time I did get sick was in DCS World pulling hard Gs inverted in a F-15. I thought I was gonna blow chunks...luckily my ingame body blacked out and all I could see was black.
Is there a sensation of being pushed back in the seat when you take off in the car? If so, that’s AWESOME
Clear tips. Many thanks!
When you get used to VR, is it possible to run really long races like on iracing ?
Vic Covemaecker Yes it is possible. I run endurance races using VR. My forehead gets hot long before I feel sick so I just setup a fan in front of me. But yes, if you get past the "sick" part you can run for hours easily!
Ok Thanks ! :)
Dan's Racing & Simulations yea I noticed the headset eventually just feels like a hot helmet and increases the immersion factor for me greatly!
keep your face cool also. i have two small fans that blow in my face at all times. keeps me from fogging up since i wear glasses, plus it feels like the wind is blowing in your face while driving...lol
For me, I own an Oculus Rift and a Thrustmaster T300RS Alcantara. The problem is, the Oculus's visuals don't look very good from out of the cockpit but everything on the interior looks great. This alone makes me feel sick. Another problem I have is that in Assetto Corsa, (because I'm so short, 5.1") I'm always below the driver and also can't see the track very well unless I my seats all the way up and I'm not leaning back. Doing that for long periods of time is very uncomfortable especially in long races such as endurance races which are also, sadly my favorite to compete in.
TheSupremeTaco You can adjust your view in the menu, to your right in game lol
Rakett85 I've figured everything out. Thanks anyway.
TheSupremeTaco No problem:) Also remember to reset view in oculus menu, so the wheel is in the correct position:)
once i get my rift s ill either drive in akina (lots of sharp turns) or in wangan (speed waries between 160-300 constantly)
i know i should start easy, but ill try to drive slow at first, then speed up, ten seconds into 200+ kmph and run to the bathroom to throw up :)
I just don't understand how people get motion sick when playing on a decent PC with a properly set up Rift! When I first got my mobile VR I broke out in sweat within minutes. As time progressed, minutes turned into hours. Now, I don't sweat anymore, instead, I get a headache and want to vomit. So, I dropped mobile VR completely (literally packed it away last night) as my phone (LG G2) isn't providing the proper experience as my friends Samsung Galaxy S7 did (I never got sick while using her S7). However, when I played Space Pirate Trainer on the HTC Vive however, I was solid! The experience was great! In fact, I was ducking and dodging laser beams as if I played it before.
To continue a conversation we’ve had from another video: the 90fps is confusing me a little. Because I can see how you can measure that on your monitor/tv but not in the headset. The NVIDEA settings panel is only measuring FPS on screen but not in the headset. Have I got this wrong? UPDATE: I ran a couple of laps before I got nauseous, this tip is gold. Although I want to jump straight back in, I’ll leave it an hour or so, thanks Dan
Jamiedh303 Awesome! Yeah just give it some time and take it slow. You'll be running full races before you know it. The image shown on screen is just a direct mirror of the image in the rift so the counter on screen should be a direct reflection of the fps you are getting inside the headset. Your computer is only actually rendering the image inside the headset. The image on screen is more like a "video" or a "live replay" kind of... well you get the idea. The fps you see on screen is what you are getting inside the rift, or should be theoretically.
Dan's Racing & Simulations mMagic, thanks. Understood. Yeah, the racing is getting slightly better. I don’t want to put a timescale on it, easy as she goes, is my mantra
It's weird...my motion sickness has gotten better with VR but yesterday I was on the bus and I felt nauseous for the first time on a bus...it was like reverse motion sickness!
I can play racing games for a few hours.. But the sliding around in walking games gets me sick as a dog within seconds every time...
When I get vr imma do the exact opposed of this to just get a baseline of ok it cant get anyworse than this. So everytime I start to get sick I just push a little bc I think, I had it worse the fiirst time. So it feels like I achieved some resistance against it.
Be careful. It's better to stop *before* you feel sick, because your brain can start to associate even wearing the headset with the sick feeling and you end up feeling it before you even put it on.
going backwards totally gets me nauseous while almost nothing else does. very weird.
Assetto corsa SICK with open wheel ?
Try visor xforce with static helmet view help a lot....
Great video. I have an Oculus, but I held off AC because I'm getting sick almost immediately. Plus, my 2x970 weren't working in VR so I was getting annoying stutters. I think they fixed it since then, so I'm gonna retry it soon, plus there's the horizon thing I forgot to enable (it stayed locked and that's wrong).
Thanks for all the info. Getting my wheel soon and I am really interested in getting into racing. I know iracing is not the place to start. However, 2 years are on sale for new people for 99 dollars. I am going to play project cars 2 and I think you suggested assetto corsa. Also if i do get asetto corsa is there somewhere to look so I make sure I buy what I need and not buy cars/tracks that I will never use. I think I would like road racing and then some nascar as an end game. but I will only do one at a time.
So Laguna Sega with an Indy car to start would be a great idea? Just kidding. As someone else stated a good transducer will fix all and turn up your force feedback.
Every time a start to feel sick and get the VR off I hit the brakes hard to stop the car. The not existing G force makes me sick even more.
A Buttkicker and Simvibe also helped me a lot. To this day I'm more comfortable if I have the Buttkicker on.
Andrew Philbrick I can definitely see how that would help a lot!
Kinda funny... when I first started out in VR I drove an Ariel Atom on the Nurburgring several times XD I'd get nausea after 1 lap lol
What tracks would you recommend?
I was thinking a street car around Daytona, but what do you recommend?
I still find it crazy that people get sick from sim racing. I was nervous myself and thought maybe its not a good idea to go with VR. I was wrong though, sim racing I've had zero issues. Now when I did the space app I think its called home, when I climbed out of the ship for the first time my stomach dropped.
kosta1605 I'll have to look that one up! Sound interesting!
Dan's Racing & Simulations its free with your rift. So awesome
kosta1605 I'll check it out thanks!
i get sick irl with a car its only fair to get sick in vr too its good training if you wanna be astronaut
Hi,
You mentioned the most important is the 90 fps. Oculus Ridt S can only do 80Hz so the maximum fps is 80. Does it cause problem? Should I look after better VR? I haven’t bought anything yet just I tried Rift S and I felt sick.
until VR ultrawide gets better im out. Most Vr headsets lack peripheral vision as the screens are not wide. Not to mention the GPU power needed to run an ultrawide VR headset.
Thanks
I want to do VR soo bad but between the video card prices and the Rift cost is a big nibble.. I also expect to have motion issues since I used to get really barfed out just play a PS3 shooter on a 65" HDTV..
Though I have no problem getting sick... my eyes lost focus of the screen and get tired even if I got the focus right at the beginning... what can I do?
ネギ＆FISH Hmmm, that is strange. I've not heard of that happening. Do you wear glasses or contacts normally? You're headset may be too tight or too loose causing you to have to strain your eyes to see the image. That might be making your eyes tired. I get better results the tighter I have the headset on. Also consider using eye drops so your eyes don't dry out. That can strain them as well.
ah yes>< I have irregular short eyesight of my left and right eye (and I don't wear glasses when I use VR since I felt uncomfortable when glasses pressing to my face >
ネギ＆FISH i would have thought there'd be lenses available that can accomodate for your eyesight.
Very helpful, thanks.
No problem. Glad it helped!
Will
Go try it , I get sick from my ps4 vr
Uhg, how do you see your FPS? I see nothing in Oculus settings to show what current FPS is...
best way to get not sick its not let fps go lower then 90 to much time!and guess 1080ti also will help with this problem!
I tried VR once and got quite nauseous but wanna get it for simracing. My rotatable desk chair does not irritate me now, but will it contribute to getting sick?
I spun the sumbitch and damm near lost my cookies
LMAO!
Elevations changes fuck me up so bad, worse then anything else.
So basically don't racr with VR because everything will cause headache. Thanks for the vid bud
DOF REALITY P3 MOTION RIG. HP REVERB G2 JUST GOT 3 DAYS AGO. 3 LAPS ON IRACING IN RALLYCROSS ON DAYTONA LONG = PUKED. TODAY TRIED AGAIN...10 LAPS IN, PUKED. HEADSET 85-90 FPS CONSTANT. THINK I JUST WASTED $600. CRY.
Lmao the first things I did was get into a formula style car starting looking to the left and right spinning out and stopping fast and crashing I lasted about 45 seconds before I had to take it off
Dude... That's instant vomit right there lol
LOL, my mate almost yacked on GT sport, I don't get it, an when I did on ace combat 7, I just rode it out, I admit yeah almost felt sick, but I am the guy who rides the biggest fastest highest rides, disney land in paris got bad ass rides, but yeah motion sickness don't bother me..............
tip no. 1: get druck. tip no. 2 there is not more tips just drive.
ive never gotten sick in vr when drunk. i still get sick easy when i play sober though, so i dont play much during the week, (sober) i usually have a few beets on friday or saturday and play a few hours of onward or dirt rally and im set. so much fun :)
you dont need to get drunk, just ya know. lightly buzzed.
maybe its some sort of placebo affect, it happened once or twice, i noticed the pattern, decided it meant i couldnt get sick drunk and therefore i dont. who knows ,also makes sense that when drunk your brain knows not to believe or trust all your senses too much, it knows from experience ;)
*druck = as drunk as a duck swimming in alcohol... ok no it was just a typo..
only issue i have with vr is getting a headache since i wear glasses
Out of curiosity, how do you go about figuring out FOV when using VR? I got a Microsoft mixed reality headset over boxing day. I'm just waiting for it to come in so I can try it out.
BCJM76 VR & MR are typically at a 1 to 1 FOV meaning they will be the perfect realistic FOV right out of the box. Everything should be the correct sizes and distances should be as accurate as they possibly could be. You can however adjust your seat/head position to make sure your mirrors and things are to your liking but I wouldn't make any FOV adjustments.
thanks for the tips i guess VR isn't for me, its great and crazy immersive but i just don't play enough to get used to it.
I just tried VR for the first time... on a drift course. Bad idea... Totally...