Does SL make anyone else sick?

I didn't know this. Thanks for the suggestion, Suezanne

I snipped this from a website.

The accepted term for that particular variety of motion sickness has been called “simulator sickness,” and despite a few studies to determine its cause, nobody is quite sure why it happens.

It doesn't affect just video-game players. A 1995 report by the U.S. Army Research Institute found that almost half the military pilots who used flight simulators developed aftereffects — and 10 percent of those respondents had symptoms lasting more than 4 hours.

Like motion sickness brought on by planes and boats, simulator sickness seems to occur when there is a disagreement in the brain between what you're seeing and what your inner ear reports is actually happening. One theory about motion sickness posits that it occurs because the area postrema portion of the brain associates the visual/balance discrepancy with hallucination. Since seeing things that aren't there is often a sign of poison in the body, the brain tells the body to purge, unleashing the hot dogs."




If you feeling sick, get off the game.. If it is persistantly occuring and you need to work take a dramimine.

I myself get this a lot, if I know I am going to be on for a while I take a dramimine.. Of course any medications you may be taking can effect you this way as well and or may interact with the dramimine so be smart about that.

You might want to have your eyes checked as well, I did and now wear glasses while playing and it does help.
I do become more ill while playing unreal tournament and or cam around a lot in SL, which causes me to crash so I limit that to.. ; )

Wow, I thought it was just me and I've never said anything about it to anyone. Yes SL does make me feel a bit sick from time to time, I usually log off at that point

It can have alot to do with the frame rate, lower frame rates tend to cause a queasy feeling, try reducing your graphics, or do what you can to raise your frame rates, also, I once had an issue with seeing a white box because I was viewing SL so much when I first started. Also try toning down the brightness as well.

http://www.secondscripter.com

Yes, i do get motion sickness and I highly recommend Sea Bands. They'll help with feeling sick but you don't have to get drugged up

~Ava

Thanks for the interesting information, Tarina. I've tried not to "unleash the hotdogs". After reading these replies, I realize I have my eyes very close to the monitor. I don't know if I need my eyes checked or if it because I find SL completely confusing as a noob. But getting an eye exam is a good idea. I will see an ENT and audiologist in the next two months for something else and will mention this to them. If I'm still in SL and get good ideas from either I will try to post them in this thread if I can find it. In the meantime, I've going to not log into SL for a few days to try to get it to stop. I don't know about draminine while playing, but that might be a last resort before quitting if none of these other suggestions work.

I was wondering if it was just me too, Bella. No other game has made me feel this bad.

I'll try toning down the brightness and reducing the graphics. Thanks for the suggestion, Johan. I don't know how else to change the frame rate. Maybe this is a good excuse to get another computer and monitor.

I've also experienced this quite a bit -- biggest consistent factors are me experiencing lag / bad frame rate.

I don't know how to fix either unfortunately -- I've turned the graphics all down as far as they can, but I still get the trying to walk, and moving extremely slowly, environment around kind of 'dragging' due to it not updating.

The only solution I've found is playing in regions that have very little traffic. I had found a few of the post-secondary campuses and was browsing around them in the wee hours of the morning and I was the only person there.

Jerky movement of my character also seems to induce illness feeling, when my AO breaks or stops working randomly. Animations that are not realistic / don't make sense / jerky [default walk animation especially] I think are partially the lag/frame-rate, as well as the brain confused by what it expects motion to look like versus what it is seeing -- although I can handle roller coasters really well, and only experienced this is the past when at LAN parties that got really lagged due to other players intentionally packet-flooding to disrupt game-play.

Are you shopping a lot? I found myself getting queasy during the first couple of months in SL because I was spending a *lot* of time camming around store walls, trying to fill my inventory with clothes and shoes and hair. Back then some of the stores I went to had vendor posters from floor to ceiling in very tall builds.

Since then I've discovered stores that are easier to navigate and have better quality stuff as well. Now if I get queasy it's because I'm moving around in a tight space, such as the maze I was in recently.

Rhan, I think lag definitely makes it worse. I've only been in SL for a few days, but I found big lag any time there is a lot of people. I'm hoping this isn't normal and is just a recent problem. I've also noticed it is related to the jerky movements of my character. But it seems like all the movements are jerky. I'll try to turn down the graphics, etc and see, but I wonder if it just SL and my computer/monitor.

I haven't shopped at all, Roisin. That's way too advanced. I can barely figure out what I'm doing or what is going on around me - thinking about getting Linden $ and learning about buying things is beyond me ATM. I do think areas crowded with treas, flowers, big signs and other stuff makes it worse.

"Does SL make anyone else sick?"



No. But I heard some of the people can.

You might try changing your monitor's refresh rate, if you can.