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Just bought one to share with the kids and have spent the morning setting it up and floating round the ISS.
Once the motion sickness has passed can anyone recommend some games for me to try? Specifically I want a WW2 era combat flight sim.
The people I know who have them get addicted to Beat Saber, so avoid it.
The Boy has one. I have no idea what it's called, but there's a twin gun augmented reality shooter where you're blasting different coloured aliens breaking into your living room and it is tremendous fun.
Why? Better than sitting on your arse doing nothing. (re:Beatsaber)
Can't recommend anything to fit your criteria but Robo-Recall was good fun. Superhot is also good in VR to play on your Matrix/Equilibrium fantasies.
Spent too much time on it. Feel sick as a pike!
Beat saber is great. No motion sickness with that because your pov remains fixed. I have a target shooting game called gun club which is good fun, same thing, your pov is fixed so you don't get motion sickness.
I have got a flight game called war birds over the Pacific or something. It's quite good fun, but I can only manage a few minutes at a time.
Can recommend Walkabout mini golf and Ultrawings 2.
I have got a flight game called war birds over the Pacific or something
That's the one that knocked me sick.
Be careful on the roller coaster games. I first tried it standing up and went flying landing on my back on the arm of the sofa. Had a bad back for days after that. Everyone else thought it hilarious.
Warplanes: battles over pacific is fun but doesn’t half make me feel ill. Good fun co-op.
beatsaber is awesome but you’ll end up spending loads more on songs.
smash drums is also fun, but again with the extra song costs.
walkabout mini golf is excellent.
As IRL some people are more susceptible to motion sickness than others. For in vehicle stuff it really helps if there's a windscreen frame visible most of the time but even then it can be an issue. I found I got it playing assetto Corsa on one of the really fast, highly grippy cars because I was changing direction so quickly. Elite dangerous was fine however.
Also, don't mention it to Cougar, but too low frame rate can be a problem. ??
Also, don’t mention it to Cougar, but too low frame rate can be a problem. ??
Low frame rate was a real problem with early VR. There will be a point though where it's good enough.
As I understand it, the 'motion' sickness isn't simply down to what you see in VR but the dissonance between what your eyes are telling you and what your body is. Like, looking out of a train window can knock some people sick, your brain is being told that you're rattling along at 100mph but you're effectively stationary. I think, could well be talking mince.
Low frame rate was a real problem with early VR. There will be a point though where it’s good enough.
As I understand it, the ‘motion’ sickness isn’t simply down to what you see in VR but the dissonance between what your eyes are telling you and what your body is. Like, looking out of a train window can knock some people sick, your brain is being told that you’re rattling along at 100mph but you’re effectively stationary. I think, could well be talking mince.
Probably a bit of both depending on the person... I know the fluid in your ear canals helps control your balance.. if you're stood still, the fluid will be still, telling your brain you're not moving. But then your eyes are telling your brain your're doing a barrel roll in an aircaft or something..
Pistol whip is quite good along the lines of Beatsaber but with pistols (funny, that).
Also... Half Life Alyx. If you have the right grunt of PC to hook it to.