Considering VR for the Hornet but afraid of motion sickness.

While I do not get seasick on my boat, Ive heard horror stories about the Oculus etc. Your thoughts? Is it an issue?

as long as the PC is driving the sim fast enough, should be fine. i got nauseus from the Oculus DK2, but recent applications and current gen devices are fine. You get used to it over time too. Threw around f18 for 40mins last night in Oculus and felt fine (hadnt done any flight simming in past few years)

maybe find a local person / shop / internet cafe to try it first?

I was afraid of the same thing and I've had my rift for almost a year now. The key is to take breaks. As soon as you start to feel weird, STOP. No matter how bad you want to continue. Over time you'll notice you're able to fly in longer sessions. Remember, as soon as you feel weird, to stop.

Here is my experience. I get carsick really easy and could never do any rollercoasters. When I got my Rift about 6 months ago, I felt a bit sick when using them the first couple of days. Fearing I spent all those money on something I couldn’t use, I started reading a bit about the issue. For most people it will just be a matter of the brain getting used to it. It only took like 5-6 days for me to get used to. Before, whenever I was banking or anything like that in the plane I had to close my eyes :) But after a week, I never had any problems again. I didn’t use my Rift for about 3 months but after the F/A-18 came out I just had to use them again, and still no problems what so ever.

That being said, there is of course no guarantee that you will not get sick.

Edit: and like Pimp wrote, take breaks when you feel something going on. I did the same

Yeah, what Pimp said. I was pretty green when I first flew with mine. Took a couple of weeks to acclimatise to it. Take plenty of breaks and stop before you feel really ill..!

What pimp said too... my first week or two, I had gradually increased my flight times.

Now, no issue. But we each have our own acclimation rates.

I’ve already flown multi hour hops in the Hornet....but like others have said, start slow. Any aircraft could make you sick, especially helicopters.

Do 10-15 minute flights, shallow turns, take off and landing. Don’t force it, or try to make big jumps in time or maneuvers. Build up the time, you inner ear will get used to the disconnect from your brain. Before you know it you’ll be pulling hard G’s in any aircraft.

Before you know it, you’ll wonder how you ever played a flight sim with a monitor.

While I do not get seasick on my boat, Ive heard horror stories about the Oculus etc. Your thoughts? Is it an issue?

I've never felt anything other then awesomeness when flying with Oculus ;) It's amazing when doing free flight or just fooling around, but I'm sticking to TrackIR when doing actual combat. The hud is fine in VR but the radar and other small numbers are difficult to read.

Chances are that you will experience motion sickness when you first try VR, but you should overcome it in a few days.

I started with Assetto Corsa and experienced motion sickness for the first 3-4 days, after that none. So we do adapt quickly.

From another perspective, the first time I demo'd the rift to my wife, she spent less than 5 mins driving around in Assets Corsa and felt so sick that she had to lie down for the next hour.

Fast forward a month or three and I was impressed with the IL-2 BoS experience so I had to show it to her. She flew around for 15mins without any motion sickness - this after not having touched the rift since the previous experience, and only her second experience with the rift.

The problem with the try before you buy is that chances are high that you would get motion sickness, and this could put you off it before you get the chance to adjust. Assuming you are happy with what VR has to offer, I'd say go from it rather, as the odds of you not adapting is slim.

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I am immune to motion sickness from boats.

and im immune from motion sickness from VR

probably because i get vertigo.

a life time of dealing with the disorientation caused by heights makes me immune to the disorientation caused by movement.

and I think a lot of people experience vertigo for the first time in VR.

so its a case of welcome to my world :)

My experience about the same, after a few days it settled down and pretty much all went away.

While I do not get seasick on my boat, Ive heard horror stories about the Oculus etc. Your thoughts? Is it an issue?

If you keep looking at where you point the aircraft´s nose, you will survive.

VR zoom may be employed carefully in the beginning too.

Other than that, it´s bloody amazing.

Dirt Rally got me sick in less than a minute (lots of drifting and sliding a small underpowered car).

Assetto Corsa or DCS, I can play all day long however. Two weeks time Oculus user here, I´m still a n00b :smilewink:

Thank you all for the great insight. QUADG, I too have BAD vertigo due to a brain injury. Maybe this will actually help me because I am constantly dizzy now anyway. LOL I see there are used Oculus Rift units out there being sold due to motion sickness. So I guess I need to decide on Oculus or a new TrackIR

I am immune to motion sickness from boats.

 

and im immune from motion sickness from VR

 

probably because i get vertigo.

 

a life time of dealing with the disorientation caused by heights makes me immune to the disorientation caused by movement.

 

and I think a lot of people experience vertigo for the first time in VR.

 

so its a case of welcome to my world :)

I'd hold off to see what the next gen of sets does. Things like the Pimax are close, the final run evaluation sets where sent out a few days ago, Rift has a new version coming and etc etc.

On the original post, I was the same as most. It was a couple weeks of getting used to it and now there's never an issue.

Not heard of PIMAX. Will google it

I would say the earliest we will see a true second generation device will be sometime in the second half of 2019.

I will be doing a ton of VR gaming with my Rift between now and then.

I’ve never felt sick in dcs with my rift. Get that feeling like u get when u jump off a bridge into water when I’m looking around upside down sometimes but nothing like a sickness. The only time I have ever experienced feeling sick from VR was in project cars 2 and only in the go-karts. Something about turning really fast and being low to the ground that my head and stomach don’t like. It was weird at first I started feeling hot and bothered and I wasn’t sure what the problem was until I took it off and pretty much was off it the rest of the day. I can drive the normal cars in that game without a problem. The only thing that I get from DCS is just wearing the HMD after about 30 mins it is a relief to take it off. Most time I just work thru it because like someone else said before, u need to take a break every now and again until u are use to having something covering face and head. I guess it depend on you and ur own personal preference. not a problem for me and adds way more to the game then it takes away from being uncomfortable. Good luck with ur decision, see if you can try out a set from someone first before dropping the cash.

Don't get motion sickness but, standing outside of bird on carrier deck I thing if waves were any wore I would get sea sick they rolling effect is great

Don't get motion sickness but, standing outside of bird on carrier deck I thing if waves were any wore I would get sea sick they rolling effect is great

Lol no kidding.

I've only gotten an occasional woozy feeling if I'm craning my neck to see around the windscreen frame and HUD on the A-10C. Other than that, no problems here. Heh, I go out and purposely stall aircraft while calibrating aftermarket AOA sensors on a fairly regular basis though, so knowing to look at a fixed point in space and avoid side-to-side craning of my neck while going into the stall to avoid getting sick is just something I've gotten accustomed to. The Rift has excellent head tracking, so where you look in the sim is where your brain thinks things should be, so spatial disorientation is pretty minimal. Definitely keep your head still while you have the loading screen up though. That doesn't move with head tracking, and it can definitely mess with you.