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Did anyone else feel motion sickness or nausea watching some of these videos? In some of the videos with some panning or rotating motion, i felt some nausea like sickness effect. I guess its because some details were changing while in motion and I was unable to keep track or focus anything in particular.

Effect was stronger in some videos.

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Yeah, these all made me feel incredibly nauseous. I was trying to figure out what aspect of the motion was triggering this (bad parallax?) but couldn't. The results are impressive but it's still amazing to me how little defects like this can trigger our sense of not just uncanniness but actual sickness.

I do. My hypothesis is that there isn't really good bokeh yet in the videos, and our brains get motion sick trying to decide what to focus on. I.e. too much movement and *too much detail* spread out throughout the frame. Add motion to that and you have a recipe for nausea (at least for now)

You can shoot with high depth of field and not cause motion sickness. Aerial videography does that every day, and it's no more difficult in general to parse than looking out an airliner window or at a distant horizon would be.

I suspect GP is closer to on the money here, in suspecting the issue lies with a semblance of movement that isn't like what we see when we look at something a long way away.

I didn't notice such an effect myself, but I also haven't yet inspected the videos in much detail, so I doubt I'd have noticed it in any case.

I think I feel a bit of queasiness but more from the fact that I'm looking at what I recognize as actual humans, and I'm making judgements about what kinds of people they are as I do with any other human, but it's actually not a human. It's not a person that exists.

Yes, I felt seriously nauseous. I feel like I just took off early gen VR goggles. Still feeling gross after 30 minutes.

I think part of it might be the slow motion / high frame rate effect. I get this too sometimes with the Apple TV backgrounds.

Perfect fit for VR.

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