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Motion Sickness - Causes and Possible Solutions
I thought I'd start a thread for people who have experienced motion sickness with the Rift so we can identify the issues and come up with solutions and possibly a few guidelines to help developers cre...
Hi,
I tried to add some smoothness to the right stick control of the gamepad to prevent nausea.
It is now a little more natural and less confusing but I don't know if anything was improved regarding nausea.
How to install and try it:
- I modified the OculusWorldDemo found in the Oculus SDK 0.2.1, so you need this installed.
- I built the exe using Visual Studio 2012 which seems to require some direct3d dlls that I added to the package.
- Feel free to try it and give your impressions, you can download binaries for Windows + src here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5dkfkohvd2zkz1/GamepadRotationSmoothing.zip
Keys:
[1]: smoothness on/off
[2] and [3]: adjust smoothness "lag time".
I tried to add some smoothness to the right stick control of the gamepad to prevent nausea.
It is now a little more natural and less confusing but I don't know if anything was improved regarding nausea.
How to install and try it:
- I modified the OculusWorldDemo found in the Oculus SDK 0.2.1, so you need this installed.
- I built the exe using Visual Studio 2012 which seems to require some direct3d dlls that I added to the package.
- Feel free to try it and give your impressions, you can download binaries for Windows + src here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5dkfkohvd2zkz1/GamepadRotationSmoothing.zip
Keys:
[1]: smoothness on/off
[2] and [3]: adjust smoothness "lag time".