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Re: 3-D Games causing SeaSickness?

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From: ps... Paul S Secinaro
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 12:45
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In article <s+nk2...@netcom.com> 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?  

You aren't alone.  I played Wolfenstein 3-D for several hours
yesterday morning.  I was so dizzy the rest of the day that I had to
go home early.

Maybe this is why we haven't seen this kind of fast-action 3-D game
before.  Bad ergonomics.

Paul



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Paul Secinaro            | Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab
ps...@kepler.unh.edu      | Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
p_sec...@unhh.unh.edu  | University of New Hampshire
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