Working as a medic at sea I had a lot of noobs come to me with 'mal de mer'. Aside from ginger biscuits, which do help a little. One trick that was quite successful was, surprisingly enough, put a colour filter over one eye. A pair of sunglasses with a lens knocked out kind of idea. Yeah, I know. But it works. You see, motion sickness is caused by a disconnect between what your eye sees & what your inner ear (balance organ) detects. That colour filter causes your brain to work around the visual differences, slowing it down, interrupting it's ability to manage the flow of data from the inner ear. It's just enough for your brain to choose to ignore some of what's coming from the inner ear. If you blink at 4-60 times a second it turns it off too. You only need to use the filter for a few days. It isn't a panacea for mal de mer. But it allows you more time in the headset, making it easier for you to get used to it.
Dogfighting in VR
- Thread starter CMDR Temunjin Boras
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If this is your first time in VR, then just take it easy for the first couple of weeks and let your brain get used to it. Short sessions and nothing too crazy. Try a few puzzle games or sedate experiences or something similar, just until the subconscious animal part of your brain starts to realise that VR isn't real.
In a book I was just reading it say it's the "reptile" part of the brain that is most likely responsible for 'mal de mer" 
At first I found the rotation of the docking pad and hyperspace enough to make me feel slightly queasy. That went way after a few days (don't push on when you do feel bad though, that won't help). The really bad thing for me was the SRV, but finding the keep the horizon level and black the screen in tumbles options helped a great deal there; I can still feel slightly off occasionally in the SRV but it doesn't get worse and it's only mild now. Playing around with the free cam on the other hand - urgh!