We recently bought a Rift. For training and research purposes (motion sickness) what demos deliver the best motion sickness effect? Is there a demo with a* merry go round?* a sea/ship demo (standing on a boat?)?* roller coasters?Thanks in advance.

Surprisingly, that would be Team Fortress 2, while coasters, merries and ship/flight/driving games are very VR-sickness-mild. This is because VR sickness is induced by acceleration - motion direction and speed change - not the fact of motion itself. In the game types you mentioned, there's naturally very little acceleration. In fast-paced shooter games, however, it's enormous, and makes people sick in minutes.

Half Life 2 native support makes me nauseous fast. Climbing stairs, frozen loading screens, rapid side and backward movements plus random ducking when the sprint button is pushed just makes for a horrible experience quickly. Might want to try that out.HL VR though is much easier to deal with so avoid that.

HL2 is a good bootcamp, it´ll mess your head but then everything mild won´t affect you, plus it´s a good game so that nausea won´t ruin the experience (i hope). Consider using it for short periods of time for few weeks or so.

"nukemarine" wrote:Half Life 2 [...] loading screensDefinitely this. Install it to an old and rather slow USB thumb drive and enjoy the stomach sickening loading screens. :D

There's lots of demos of rollercoasters. I found most of them quite nauseous at first.

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14 Replies

raidho36
Explorer
12 years ago
Surprisingly, that would be Team Fortress 2, while coasters, merries and ship/flight/driving games are very VR-sickness-mild.

This is because VR sickness is induced by acceleration - motion direction and speed change - not the fact of motion itself. In the game types you mentioned, there's naturally very little acceleration. In fast-paced shooter games, however, it's enormous, and makes people sick in minutes.
Nukemarine
Rising Star
12 years ago
Half Life 2 native support makes me nauseous fast. Climbing stairs, frozen loading screens, rapid side and backward movements plus random ducking when the sprint button is pushed just makes for a horrible experience quickly. Might want to try that out.

HL VR though is much easier to deal with so avoid that.
SxKx
Expert Protege
12 years ago
HL2 is a good bootcamp, it´ll mess your head but then everything mild won´t affect you, plus it´s a good game so that nausea won´t ruin the experience (i hope). Consider using it for short periods of time for few weeks or so.
Popopinsel
Expert Protege
12 years ago
"nukemarine" wrote:
Half Life 2 [...] loading screens

Definitely this. Install it to an old and rather slow USB thumb drive and enjoy the stomach sickening loading screens. :D
kwaver
Honored Guest
12 years ago
There's lots of demos of rollercoasters. I found most of them quite nauseous at first.
MrAdun
Honored Guest
12 years ago
Ugh... the Half Life 2 loading screens are worse than crashing to the desktop... HL2 by far is the worst in terms of sickness. I could play TF2 longer than I could HL2. Not sure why that is.
kevinm1278
Explorer
12 years ago
I have yet to try HL2 or TF2, but that dragon demo is the only one that made me sick so far. Granted you might have to do some really crazy stunts to get sick...
thatdude90210
Protege
12 years ago
Yeah, got to be HL2. I've had my Rift for months and thought I was over the motion sickness. I have no problem with TF2 so I thought I give HL2 a try. Big mistake, first ladder I went up resulted in instant nausea.

Heli Hell 2 might be a good one, I remember feeling some motion sickness in that when I first got the Rift.
sven
Protege
12 years ago
Yeah, try Heli Hell and fly some nice fast maneuvers near those trees...
Thoth_The3x
Partner
12 years ago
I still hold that this one is amazing at getting you sick:
https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3858