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Anyone else feel sick with DK2
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Kepler,
I've had the DK1 (Still waiting on the DK2
) and you can get used to it with about a week of short bursts. I use to get sick within seconds of moving in the game. After the week was over I could stand up to an hour before any real discomfort made me stop. (DK1 was REALLY bad for nausea)
The biggest reason why most people get sick is because your brain thinks that you've ingested a poison (neurotoxin) that makes your sensory organs miss-read and therefore it wants you want to vomit it all up before more damage can be done. After you re-wire you brain to relax it pretty much goes away. Just takes some time that's all.
Some people find that 'Gravol' helps get through the initial phase. until they can Stomach it.
I've had the DK1 (Still waiting on the DK2
) and you can get used to it with about a week of short bursts. I use to get sick within seconds of moving in the game. After the week was over I could stand up to an hour before any real discomfort made me stop. (DK1 was REALLY bad for nausea) The biggest reason why most people get sick is because your brain thinks that you've ingested a poison (neurotoxin) that makes your sensory organs miss-read and therefore it wants you want to vomit it all up before more damage can be done. After you re-wire you brain to relax it pretty much goes away. Just takes some time that's all.
Some people find that 'Gravol' helps get through the initial phase. until they can Stomach it.
This is probably a really stupid question but do you have positional tracking working? I only ask because you need to stop a few services and hack a bit to get head tracking working in Elite Dangerous. It is also the number one addition to the DK2 that prevents against feeling sick.
I'm sure you must have but I thought I would just check because this might explain why you are feeling sick. So I assume you can lean forward etc..?
I am finding the DK2 so much better - I haven't felt sick once. When I had the DK1 I was feeling sick within minutes.
Just wanted to make a point as well..
Rift sickness is not motion sickness. It may present the same symptoms but it's not the same.
Rift sickness is actually your body's response to poisoning, funnily enough.
When you eyes see something that your ears don't agree on your body assumes you've eaten something which has poisoned you and is affecting your vision. It does what it always does, purges.
It gives plenty of warnings that this is coming, the cold sweat, the butterfly in the stomach. If you just keep pushing you'll vomit. It's entirely natural.
you can build up resilience to this. I wonder if that's lowering your defence against poisoning though don't be eating any strange mushrooms if you no longer get sick in a Rift
Rift sickness is not motion sickness. It may present the same symptoms but it's not the same.
Rift sickness is actually your body's response to poisoning, funnily enough.
When you eyes see something that your ears don't agree on your body assumes you've eaten something which has poisoned you and is affecting your vision. It does what it always does, purges.
It gives plenty of warnings that this is coming, the cold sweat, the butterfly in the stomach. If you just keep pushing you'll vomit. It's entirely natural.
you can build up resilience to this. I wonder if that's lowering your defence against poisoning though
don't be eating any strange mushrooms if you no longer get sick in a Rift How does the resolution fare on the DK2? That's the only thing so far putting me off from buying the DK2 and wait for the CV1 instead.
Granted, I often play games on low resolution (1600X900 for ED if I remember correctly here from my work office), but still the >1080 feels rather low to me.
Granted, I often play games on low resolution (1600X900 for ED if I remember correctly here from my work office), but still the >1080 feels rather low to me.
It's not perfect but all text can be read without leaning forwards so long as it's in the middle of your field of view.
I hope I can enjoy VR even with my eye problem of threated lazy eye(I can only see with one eye at a time) but since its perfect vision in either side on oculus rift it shoulden't be a problem I guess. IT might even help me getting better at forcing me to look with both eyes at the same time.
I never had any sickness problems ever tho, partialy thanks to this I suppose. My perspective seeing can never get messed up becuse its not there to begin with. No double vision from drinking too much or anything like that.
I also fly FPV as a hobby where I have no problems at all.
(FPV = First Person View flying RC multirotor using live video from the machine in video goggles)
I never had any sickness problems ever tho, partialy thanks to this I suppose. My perspective seeing can never get messed up becuse its not there to begin with. No double vision from drinking too much or anything like that.
I also fly FPV as a hobby where I have no problems at all.
(FPV = First Person View flying RC multirotor using live video from the machine in video goggles)
If you tried a DK2 you'd buy one. It's that good. And to be honest, quite cheap for what you're really getting. It might seem easy to label it a game peripheral, but its more than that. It turns games into experiences.
Ive played loads of space sims over the years but ED is the first space sim I've ever experienced.
To someone whose never played in a DK2 the difference there is subtle if not invisible. To anyone who has used a DK2 you'll know exactly what I mean.
The DK2 is simply stunning. I feel like i am sat in a real spaceship cockpit looking out into the deep blackness of space.
I can sit up slightly and see out the windows at the ship surrounding me. I can lean forward and look around me and see all the little details of the cockpit. Using my HOTAS X gives me a great sense of presence as my hands match those of the hands in the game.
Large asteroids around the belts provide a simply stunning sense of scale. Docking last night I had an Anaconda leave the station as I was going in - it flew over me and I watched in awe as the immense scale and feeling of being there consumed me.
I am scared about the prospects of CV1. If they improve the graphical quality and the FOV even more then I am not sure I would ever take it off and re-enter the real world.
I can sit up slightly and see out the windows at the ship surrounding me. I can lean forward and look around me and see all the little details of the cockpit. Using my HOTAS X gives me a great sense of presence as my hands match those of the hands in the game.
Large asteroids around the belts provide a simply stunning sense of scale. Docking last night I had an Anaconda leave the station as I was going in - it flew over me and I watched in awe as the immense scale and feeling of being there consumed me.
I am scared about the prospects of CV1. If they improve the graphical quality and the FOV even more then I am not sure I would ever take it off and re-enter the real world.
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imagine CV2, then CV3, 4..... by 4 I think you'll have people who'd have died playing VR and forgetting to eat.
Just wanted to make a point as well..
Rift sickness is not motion sickness. It may present the same symptoms but it's not the same.
Rift sickness is actually your body's response to poisoning, funnily enough.
When you eyes see something that your ears don't agree on your body assumes you've eaten something which has poisoned you and is affecting your vision. It does what it always does, purges.
It gives plenty of warnings that this is coming, the cold sweat, the butterfly in the stomach. If you just keep pushing you'll vomit. It's entirely natural.
you can build up resilience to this. I wonder if that's lowering your defence against poisoning though
Motion sickness is also the body reacting to odd perceptions as if it was caused by poison and so inducing sickness. So it is the same.
Motion Sickness is the inner ear being sensitive to motion when the eyes aren't reporting the same degree of motion.
In a Rift it's the opposite way around. Motion reported in the eyes and not the ears would be poisoning back when man evolved that response (when we were in caves).
It's a very similar symptom but completely different causes.
In a Rift it's the opposite way around. Motion reported in the eyes and not the ears would be poisoning back when man evolved that response (when we were in caves).
It's a very similar symptom but completely different causes.
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Fair enough but motion reported in the ears and not the eyes is also interpreted as poisoning. So I wouldn't call that completely different.