[MUD-Dev] Viewpoint and motion sickness was:Neverwinter Night s

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamzen Cannoy [mailto:tamzen at worldbenders.com]

> Something I'm not seeing discussed in this 1st person vs. 3rd
> person view for playing games, is the large number of people made
> ill with motion sickness by 1st person. I'm one. I can't play
> anything that is 1st person. I can't even play the new Myst:Exile
> game. Literally 5 minutes of playing it and I am so nauseous and
> sick I have to lie down for hours. for some reason this appear to
> affect more women than men.

Hmmm, I used to get this when I first watched other people play
Doom, it would make me feel pretty ill. I found that your mind
acclimatises to it after a while. Much in the way that a child
becomes used to the motion in a car and no longer suffers from car
sickness (although arguably, thats more to do with not being able so
see motion as the windows are too high, but still getting the force
based cues).

> This is a problem y'all are going to have to tackle eventually.

Not sure how anyone can 'tackle' it without avoiding 1st person...

Dan
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