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To not experience any VR sickness with the state of today's technology, you must either be using exclusively the tame applications of the technology -- such as garden walk, home tour, etc, and not trying out any FPS games like TF2 or something -- or you have something biologically off about your linkage between your natural balance sensors and how your brain tries to correlate them with what your eyes see.

Either way, that's good for you, embrace the future more easily than the rest of us :)

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Or they just don't get motion sickness? Why does it have to be a sign of something being "off"?

If one doesn't conform to the perceived norm, some believe the nonconformers must be lacking in some respect and take it as a sign of inferiority to their percieved dominate and self-described "natural" culture.

Because motion sickness is a well understood phenomena; the cause of which the previous commenter was discussing.

The usage of the term "off" was probably a poor choice of words, but I didn't detect any negativity in his tone despite "off". eg:

    "Either way, that's good for you, embrace the future more easily than the rest of us :)"

(the last part of this post is also targeted towards jsprogrammer who suggested there was an air of superiority with the former post. Sometimes, it's entirely possibly you can read too much into another persons comment)

>Because motion sickness is a well understood phenomena

Sure, one that ballpark-range around half of people get. Neither side is more standard. Is this different, does it affect 98% of people or something? I'm not suggesting negativity, I'm suggesting that perhaps Kiro is not at all an anomaly.

Only a small number of people have gotten to try out HTC Vive so far, but I am yet to see someone complain about VR sickness when using it. Gabe Newell also said that "zero percent of people get motion sick" while using that system.

I must be off, because I've played Elite: Dangerous in the DK2 for several hours at a time and felt fine.

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