VR motion sickness

Gotta argue in favour of the treatment options used for motion sickness in any other context - for treating motion sickness in VR. (I naturally am prone to motion sickness, I'm pretty sorted with regards to it now, though.)

I don't feel like it's appropriate for me to discuss medical treatments in more depth on this platform, though.

Depends on the game really. One turned me into insta stick. Beat Saber on the other hand is absolutely no issue.

Haven't tried for VR, but since I also get motion sickness with regular PC games, I discovered that wristbands for travel sickness help. It's still a case of training, but it get's easier.

I have no motion sickness at all in VR any longer. I did have some of it when I started, but that was years ago now. It does go away with time, and it goes away entirely given enough of it.

The best tips I can give is to take it slowly. Try to find experiences that aren't too intense. Games where you're standing still are preferable to start with, stuff like Beat Saber for instance. Just something to get your mind acclimatized to what VR is. If you really want to play games where you move, try to use features like teleport, combined with moving in the real world. At least to begin with.

And the single most important piece of advice I can give is to stop immediately when you start to feel nauseous. Never try to power through it. Once it starts, it's only going to get worse and worse. Once you hit that point, it's time to do something else. Leave VR alone for the day. Next time it'll be a slightly better, and so on.

VR is the only time I've ever experienced motion sickness, but it was exclusive to games with smooth movements using the control stick (I think it was called locomotive movement?). I had to stick to point-and-teleport movement. I also felt awful after some free educational space game, but they did warn me at the beginning of the game not to launch myself at mach speed across the spaceship. A smooth movement ocean game seemed fine, though. What games have you tried to play on it?

youll get used to it. just do a bit every day and over time it'll feel better and you'll be able to tolerate it longer. just dont push it.

I'm a weird one, only time I've ever gotten motion sickness with a game was on the PS2 (or was it PS1?) it was one of the games from the Alien franchise. Something about the level of FOV and the zoom / texture pixellation that really messed with me.

Only other time I got a similar thing was playing Borderlands. That isn't motion sickness, but for some reason again something about the FOV or... >something< seems to mess with me. It feels like I just can't focus on anything I'm seeing in front of me, even though the visuals are all crisp, etc.

Outside of this I have never really experienced it, and usually enjoy games with the view bob and such all turned on, especially more immersive ones where you have the full range of leaning, own-body visibility, etc, and am looking forward to the release of that one Bodycam game.

I take pill from sickness and play in game what cause motion sickness. Games like REZ or where you teleporting in game don't cause sickness for me. But with pills it plays really great

I get motion sickess from playing some non-VR games 😭

The first one that got be bad was Bioshock Infinite and I still haven't gone back to complete it.

Luckily a couple of them have some settings to help reduce the feeling (e.g. there's a "reduce head bobbing" setting in PEAK) but that only helps up to a point.

It'll go away over time; you're sessions unfortunately cant be long to start.

While I haven't used my headset for a couple years, I remember only being able to play for about 30 minutes at a time to start. As I used it more and more, it went from one hour, to two; to no issue at all!

I have a huge motion sickness issue, can't even play first-person games and some others games, The Room for example, I have it as well, hate it so much!!
I tried short sessions but as soon as it starts, which can be pretty fast, my whole day is ruined and can't even sit anymore and have to lie down so yeah, no cure from me, just support :(

That's perfectly normal, and your first game sessions before you build VR legs should be lasting about half an hour max. You should really start off from games that don't have full locomotion (completely free movement with joystick). So, you could initially stick to games where you are either fully stationary, like synth riders, or those where you teleport to specific, fixed points, like The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Don't expect you'll be playing over for hours. But the vast majority of VR games aren't usually built for that either. They're on the short side compared to flat games, around 10 hours at maximum average.

20 minutes is okay for start: the more you play - the more you get used to it.
Also you may try games with teleport movement or with comfort vignette (darkens corners when you move).
Some games have slower movement speeds (literally the speed of character sliding around) - playing Compound seems easier than Blades n Sorcery (which also may have vertical movement when you move on non-plain ground/stairs and may also affect)
On a peak I was able to play around hour or even more, then dropped VR for a year and now it's starting again.

I got extremely sick after playing for 10-15 minutes at first, but after probably 3-5 hours of total playtime I've become immune to it.