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Everyone I've shown the Oculus has gotten sick, which is 5 people.

When Wolfenstein 3D first came out people were complaining about puking. I think the hardware updates, game design updates, combined with learned use will mostly solve the motion sickness issues. Hell I get sick from cars if I haven't ridden in traffic in a few weeks.

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I used to have a housemate who would come in and watch me play Doom clones, seated behind my shoulder - she would get motion sickness even sitting that far away (in the 15" CRT days)

Doom never made me motion sick, but I could only play Hexen for about 10 minutes at a time, and I never get motion sick when not playing a game (been reading in the car on long car trips since I was about 6).

I think it's something with the perspective being off in Hexen (and some other games) which makes you sick if you watch the player turning.

I can't watch other people playing Xbox games like CoD it makes me feel sick, the motion is just too much for me to handle.

If I don't play for a few days I feel the same way when I am playing but I can power though that in about half an hour.

No surprise though since my flying career ended early when I couldn't hold my lunch, a (bumpy) hot humid day too much to eat and being nervous didn't end well.

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