What is the most sickening rift demo?

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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.

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raidho36

Up and Coming

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.

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Nukemarine

Up and Coming

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.

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SxKx

Up and Coming

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.

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Popopinsel

Up and Coming

"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

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kwaver

Up and Coming

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

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MrAdun

Participant

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.

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kevinm1278

Up and Coming

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...

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thatdude90210

Participant

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.

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sven

Inspiring

Yeah, try Heli Hell and fly some nice fast maneuvers near those trees...

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ThothThe3x

Up and Coming

I still hold that this one is amazing at getting you sick:
https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3858