Last year’s SOMA and certain indie VR games like Dear Esther, which weren’t specifically programmed with VR in mind, created some serious, vomity issues for me. I’ve only had this issue with a small handful of other games. I actually found that sitting super close to my TV and making a conscious effort to stare at the center dot helped, but the second I became distracted by, say a bunch of armed guards, things devolved. Take the reticle away and the motion sickness gets far worse. Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst’s solution to this is to have a reticle, a single dot, in the middle of the screen, giving that same stable effect that a gun or crosshair would provide. Even a gun on the screen is not enough for some people, however and first-person games are simply not playable. It’s always there and always reasonably stable, enough to break the illusion that you’re actually moving. Primarily this is just the gun at the bottom of your screen. Most first-person games give you something to ground your vision, convincing you that it’s not you moving, it’s just the game. The biggest issue is the lack of a stable focal point. What is it about Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst that causes this reaction?
Even fast, vertically-oriented shooters like Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and this year’s Doom give me no trouble at all. Poof: motion sickness.īut I almost never get motion sickness while gaming. Therefore the brain sends alarm bells to your stomach to puke up the non-existent poison. The brain is often convinced by the motion in a game, but the inner ear is like, “Nah bro, you’re just sitting on your couch.”The TL DR is that the brain is often convinced by the motion in a game, but the inner ear is like, “Nah bro, you’re just sitting on your couch.” This disagreement convinces the brain that you must be hallucinating, perhaps due to a poison you ingested. You may want to check out this great Guardian piece from a few years ago if you’re curious about the science behind what causes motion sickness while gaming. What made Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst so different? But why did it happen? After all, I play fast first-person shooters all the time.
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