New Quest User, I get terrible motion sickness
Hi, I received my Oculus Quest from UPS about a week and a half ago. This is my first VR headset. Previously my VR experience was limited. I played the Vive at West Edmonton Mall once for about 5 minutes a few years ago, and I also played those old Virtuality machines way back in 1992 (Dactyl's Nightmare). Anyhow, I've been getting my feet wet so to speak playing games like: Beat Saber, Racoon Lagoon, Vader Immortal, and a few others. I've been enjoying them but I've discovered that I suffer from terrible motion sickness with VR. I hope I can somehow "get over this". From the games I've played so far, it seems like I have no problems if a game is a 6dof game in a fixed room with no automatic movement of my own perspective by the game itself. In other words, things can fly towards me (like in Beat Saber), or I can move my head around rapidly in the environment and have it tracked in space...that gives me no problems as long as any visual display of my own movement/perspective in VR (not other objects coming towards me) is caused by my own physical movement. The problem is if I play a game where I press a button press or a stick movement causes my own perspective to move (smoothly forward/backward, etc). Basically I need "teleport" options in games I've discovered. So that I point to a location and am "there" in a limited spot that doesn't move, and then once I'm there I can control the perspective in the space with my own head and only my own movements (deeking in and out with my own head within that space is fine). I've discovered this is why games like Beat Saber I can play no problem and don't get sick. You're just standing in a fixed rectangle and you can walk around and move your own head within that space, but the environment itself doesn't automatically move or shift. Games like Racoon Lagoon, or even that ISS (International Space Station) app make me very ill. I've had to take my headset off twice to throw up already because of it. I had to take a break from VR a few days ago for a few days because the illness lingered for 2 days, even while I was at work. I really want to love VR and play it, but I'm now worried about this. Does this happen to anyone else? What can I do to improve the situation?
