Lucky you!

I play games where using a VR headset is a competitive advantage. Racing sims and flight simulation, combat and aviation. I get quite bad motion sickness from VR (DK1, DK2, both are bad), so I know that within a few years I have no chance of making it in any online multiplayer games.

Funnily enough, the first sensations of motion sickness in a flight simulator have a resemblance to what I feel when I go flying in a small aircraft. However, in real life, I get used to it, VR just keeps on getting worse and worse.

What makes it worse is that once you stop playing, the VR-induced motion sickness doesn't stop. It goes on for hours, bad balance and mild nausea. It gets worse if the lenses in the Rift are a bit off (they must be adjusted for every person), that leaves me incapable of reading or writing for the rest of the day.

So yes - it's really that big of a problem. If a 30 minute gaming session leaves a significant portion of the customers incapacitated for hours afterwards, there's no way you can call it a product and put it on the shelves.

BTW, I have high hopes for a competing product in development, the CastAR head mounted projector. It doesn't block your view of the real world so it might not cause as bad motion sickness. That also makes it viable for more serious flight simulation where the Oculus is useless because you can't see the flight controls (ie. your hands on the gaming controllers).

http://castar.com/

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 :)

I got a DK2 when it first came out. When I tried a rollercoaster, I felt a little off but ok. Over the next few weeks I noticed slight nausea with the Zelda demo, Tuscany, and the Tiki boat. But that was nothing until I tried Quake 2. After fifteen minutes of playing, I couldn't stand up, and was extremely ill for several hours. Since then anything where I am not seated triggers the same feeling again.

I think the brain/balance issue is very common if not the norm; much more than is accepted in the community. It will be a disaster if it's not solved before a commercial release.

I once convinced my girlfriend to wear the DK1, in one of the demos that came with it (Tuscan villa), without her moving, just looking around a static location.

In less than 10 seconds she ripped it off in a sick panic, and spent the rest of the afternoon looking green on the couch.

So yeah. People can get pretty wrecked.

Apparently that indicates you are more than likely male. VR sickness affects women at a higher rate than men. It's interesting what we learn about how perception works from trying to trick it. http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexis...

It can be really bad, my short experience with a DK1 left me feeling sick for hours afterwards.

I don't either. But I don't feel particularly immersed either (even with the DK2). I fail to see the "depth" in the pictures.

I have never experience it myself either, but I saw a lot of students that experienced it in the VR lab. Especially people who had not 100% eye-sight on both eyes had a lot of troubles.

So it is a serious problem, and VR won't fly in consumer space until this is fixed. Important is also the head-tracking, and a low input latency as well as a high display refresh rate. So VR might be a fade like 3D TV, and augmented reality displays like the former Google Glass could be the winner. But who knows.

As John Carmack said in a talk, they found that there is a variety of sensitivities out there. Some people deal with it just fine, some are sensitive and some are super-sensitive.

I have a DK2 lying around unused. Besides some trouble getting it to work at all, I haven't been using it much because after the previous session I felt sick for an hour.

But probably it's only because it's working as intended. Last session I tried a bunch of roller coaster sims, so maybe feeling sick just means it is working properly :)

I've only ever used an Oculus DK2. If it isn't perfectly calibrated for my eyes before I use it it's basically unusable. I'll most likely vomit within 30s to a minute.

Once it's calibrated I can't play for more than 15-20 minutes without getting a slight headache.

I'm pretty resistant, I got slight nausea after playing Unreal Tournament on the DK1 for 20 minutes or so but I've yet to experience it with the DK2 even with low frame rates.

I haven't had motion sickness in VR either. That said, everyone can get sick. Some people have a higher tolerance than others, but no one is immune.