Hey FD: How about this for helping to reduce VR sickness?

I don't know if I get sickness out of it, but I do feel queasy when I am flying low altitude on the surface doing guns runs on outposts.

I make a pass and boost out and start a high bank to spot the target and bring it back to my front. That's when I feel it. But I like it.
It reminds me of low level flight in helicopters on an LZ or DZ. Especially when the pilot would janky with us in the back just for kicks.

I think of it as immersion. Your body is going to react in flight.

I also get a little dizzy when I haul butt and grab super air in the SRV. I love it.
 
I may be wrong, but i think that the sickness that people are experiencing in VR while driving the SRV is due to cognitive dissonance, and i'm afraid there isn't much you can do about it...

Short explanation: when looking at a normal screen, your brain can tell that your body isn't "there" in the SRV, so the fact that your vestibular system, in your inner ear, (which can basicaly be compared to a 3D version of this:
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) is sending different signals that what your eyes can see doesn't cause any problem.

However, VR is made to be immersive, so it tricks your brain to "think" that your body is indeed in the SRV. The problem is that while it does that, your vestibular system is sending signals telling that your body is immobile in your chair, BUT your eyes are seeing a moving horizon line... so your brain is receiving two incompatible signals, provoking cognitive dissonance and sickness. This is the same thing that happen to people being sick on boats.

Edit:
I just read about GVS (Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation), that's not something i would personally try. Do not want to mess with my equilibrium sense.
 
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