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s...@netcom.com (Steve A. Feinstein) writes:
>I've been playing Wolfenstein 3-D for the past few days, and have
>noticed that if I play for more than about a half of an hour I start
>to get real nauseous and start to sweat.  Very much like sea-sickness.
>Is this a Nazi plot to take over the minds of computer game players
>everwhere?  

>Has anyone ever experienced this phenomenon with other 3-D games?
>Flight simulators? 

It's been noted in virtual reality literature that when you have
either: a convincing view of motion without the motion (such as VR) or
the feeling of motion without a view of it (on a large ship or plane
in turbulence) you get nauseous.


>I remember back in my Atari 800 days there was a maze game called
>Wayout that was similar in perspective to that of Wolf3D but it never
>made me nauseous?

I played it too, but it wasn't nearly as fast or convincing.


>I wonder if there's ever been a study of this phenomenon in and
>medical litterature?

Check out the virtual reality literature.  Some people even get
nauseous when they "push" stuff around in the VR world, because their
hand doesn't feel anything, and their brains expect that it would.
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