I don't have it too bad with real life, only in like extremes of reading a book or playing some games while passenger in a car or on a boat. However in VR it was kidna rough at first. Could not handle more than a few minutes of smooth locomotion, but stationary games like beatsaber or using teleport in HL:Alyx was alright. Then I tried playing into the radius on my old PC. Man that was bad, but each time I came back to it I could tolerate it for longer. Also getting some computer upgrades and higher res and smoother OLED HMD that made the game run at stable 90hz while looking sharp. Now as of last weekend I was able to tolerate a play session that was 4 hours long. I still feel kinda uneasy but not quite queasy, and that's enough for me to feel immersed in the game. This has been over the course of a few years tho, but I play VR in infrequent bursts, so I might not touch it for a few months then play it heavily for a couple weeks then back to not touching it for a few months. It's a bit hard to recall but I think the biggest thing to make it better was ensuring stable smooth FPS and also playing games that made it uncomfortable but not for so long I'd feel super sick. i.e. beatsaber didn't do much for building the "VR legs" but gradual exposure to smooth locomotion did.

you are doing all the right things! try watching movies and then maybe going to some of the meditation worlds in horizon worlds or vrchat etc where you experience vr but don't have to move around much if at all... but yes i do NOT have motion sickness but it took me a couple to few months to finally get my VR legs and also to stop feeling weird once i took the headset off and walked around in the real world as even that felt "off" for that period of time...but now i can play 3 to 6 hrs in VR with all sorts of crazy games and experiences...but especially the best vr game ever in my opinion, Dungeons Of Eternity!

i say stick with it and keep just taking it slow....i want everyone to love it and hope you can get the hang of it asap!!!

I can sim race for hours on end with little breaks inbetween but 5 minutes of any other movement game and I hang over the toilet.

I got intentionally as sick as I could as quick as I could as often as I could and that worked for me within 5 days.

I sold my HP VR headset because I’d be woozy after 5 minutes use. I got a Quest 3 and a BoboVR S3 headstrap. It has a fan at the front that blows cool air onto your face. Ever since then I’ve had no motion sickness at all.

If you're new to VR, I advise you to just take it slow, and don't try to power though it either.
Move slowly in the world, avoid anything vehicle related (trust me, something like jetskis will make even experienced players motion sick).
Stop playing as soon as you feel ill. Don't try to power through it. That'll just make it worse.
A small fan blowing on you as you play can help.
You will get used to it.

Highly recommend a fan. Also, try not to play on an empty stomach. In general you need to build up to long play sessions. When I started I could go a little more than a hour before I had to stop, now I can clock 8 hours with no issues. You might also try ginger pills, those have been proven to work for motion sickness.

Most games have settings meant to help alleviate it but those telling you that you'll get used to it are right.

Took me a while but now I can spend hours in VR without issue.

You definitely get used to it, but there is certain things that will still give me bad motion sickness, like jumping from heights, sitting on other avatars, any roller coaster/jetski/etc like idejtauren mentioned, and flashy worlds (neuron is SO cool but it kills me). also "drunk/drug" effects send me over the edge.

just about everything else gets super easy though!

It's usually because your character is moving in the game while you're not moving in real life - like when you're moving it with a joystick, or driving a car or plane. That creates a disconnect between what your eyes see and what your inner ear (vestibular system) feels. Try enabling comfort settings like a vignette effect or teleportation. There should be a tutorial about those when you enter the default home world.

VR causes no motion sickness: in-game smooth locomotion does. That's why instant teleport works - it involves no locomotion from A to B, it just puts you there instantaneously. As long as you don't use teleport as some frantic stroboscopic bunny-hopping, there's no nausea. Then again, only using teleport will never grow you VR legs, no matter how much long you play.

Did I miss the point?
Running in place to give signals to the inner ear. This helps to avoid simulation sickness. Strictly speaking, it's about simulating sickness, motion sickness is something else. ✌️

But otherwise a really good guide. ��

For me what worked was slowly introducing myself to it.

First teleport only, then rec room with ocassional joystick movements with a lot of fov reduction and it was only occasionally used. Then I used joystick only with fov and slowly made the fov bigger.

I can now do all sorts of crazy manuvers as long as I control the input. My vive wands have drift and sometimes they make me so sick. Otherwise I can do anything.

I wonder how much they are actually related - I get really bad motion sickness in real life but surprisingly have never felt it in VR (and I've played some pretty movement-intense games like Ultra Wings 2). Alternately my dad doesn't get motion sickness in real life but gets it in VR almost immediately.

If I'm passenger in a car, it's 50/50 that I get a headache, If I'm reading something then it's a 100% chance I do. If I spin in place for just a few seconds, also an immediate headache. But in VR, I'm totally immune. I can't really remember if I had any motion sickness when I first started using VR, but at this point there is literally nothing that can make me sick. Some things will make me feel like I should be feeling sick, but I never actually get sick.

I did one time try to wear a VR headset in a car as a passenger... that very quickly turned into a headache.

Don't start with a flight simulator or fast-paced shooter. Download some relatively low-motion games that are still incredible and immersive, like MOSS, WALKABOUT MINI-GOLF, or I EXPECT YOU TO DIE. Then graduate to games like BEAT SABER or SUPERHOT, which are stressful, but don't spin you around or make a lot of demands on your vestibular system. Gradually, you'll learn what you can tolerate and what you can't. After a month or so of that, make a decision as to whether the shooters/sims are worth trying again.

I do have similar problems to you, but find that if I stay away from shooters and VR flight simulators, it's manageable. If I play a game for a few sessions, then over the space of a week I tolerate it a lot better.

I got horrible motion sickness during a roller coaster. Like I was sick for 2 days.

I got motion sickness in the start of VR. I remember playing skyrim on psvr1 and fell off a cliff and threw my headset off so fast lol.

But I kept pushing through and now I have no problem playing on my quest 3 all day other than getting tired because I'm old.

At the start I could go about 20 min. Come back to it the next day and just slowly built up my time per session.

Ginger pills! You can get them in the vitamin supplement section. Dramamines non drowsy option are ginger pills, worked great for me until I got my legs

Have a fan blowing at you, found it super helpful in my early days of vr.

Take it slow. If you start feeling sick, get out of VR until it subsides. Don't push through or your brain will start to associate VR with becoming motion sick.

Looking down might also help. Just build it up slowly

Keep at it but in small sessions. By the time I would feel queasy it was too late and the recovery took much longer. I would start sweating more than normal and that was my cue to end that session. I also recommend flying aircraft in the following order:

1. Any fixed-wing aircraft as pilot
2. AH-94 as pilot
3. Backseat in fixed-wing
4. Front-seat (co-pilot) in AH-94

Don’t progress in that order until you manage fine in the previous.

I’m a private pilot IRL and struggled with queasiness doing that too. I saw someone suggest having a fan blow on you, that might help prolong your sessions. I would manage the airflow from vents when flying IRL and it helped a ton.

Just keep at it and it gets better.

Night maps with the setting where NVG’s are just the circular view, instead of the entire display.

Ultrawings has a pretty robust motion sickness setting, geared around limiting your peripheral vision.

This may be unrelated, but i remember a family member having the worst motion sickness when trying to play the PsX game “jumping flash”.

they would almost hurl - but eventually after watching it a bunch without playing, they got slightly more resistant.

so, maybe with time you too will go more resilient!

I had no problems in VR until I played some Kaiju game. When it finished, I nearly fell over - had dizziness and nausia for a week. This was last week starting Sunday. I was only able to eat solid food Saturday.

Boxing, tennis, watching movies, beatsaber and similar games have given me no trouble.

Try turning a fan on while playing, that helps me

Out of curiosity, what games have you been trying so far?

Yup! It took me over a week to be able to put it on without getting sick. But I learned that snap turns were easier for me. It was different enough that my brain knew it wasn't the way that I would actually move and stop trying to associate it. After I played a few games with snap turning for a few weeks, I was able to transition over to smooth turns and IRL moving/turning.

I mostly playing sitting even now and that helps majorly as well.

It also helps to remove any sort of motion blur in your settings if possible.

I just stuck with it and after a bit I didn’t get sick anymore

I'd certainly be interested in trying it - my motion sickness has gotten a bit better after using VR but I'm still prone, taking cinnarizine tablets before use more often than not.

I also scuba dive and tend to get nauseated on boats so I'd love to try something that can potentially alleviate it. Would be happy to provide any anecdotal feedback that might help.

These results are of a similar magnitude to some studies I've seen that used electrical vestibular stimulation. Pretty impressive. The mechanism appears to be mechanical stimulation of otoconia (the calcium carbonate crystals in your inner ear that detect linear acceleration) at their resonant frequency of 100Hz. This optimizes vestibular pathway sensitivity, making the brain more resilient to visual-vestibular conflicts - exactly what causes VR motion sickness. I'm actually considering adding this as an optional pre-session feature in my VR game Elemancer, since the study shows just 1 minute provides 2+ hours of protection. Would be interesting to see if players notice any difference in comfort during movement-heavy gameplay.

I've had motion sickness IRL since i was a kid. But in VR, the motion sickness quickly faded away with a few gaming sessions

I will try this for my IRL motion sickness, thank you :)

I spend a lot of time in VR, playing a good amount of games. The one and only time I got motion sick was in a free spacewalk game called Mission ISS. I'm very glad I don't have to deal with it unlike a lot of people

They missed the best tip, put a fan blowing onto you, helps your brain sense direction and keeps your face cool.

What the hell is an anti-nausea wristband? But the ginger tip is good, ginger all the way when it comes to nausea.

Good tips and then it goes to fucking alternative medicine Jesus christ

My main tip is to just start drinking, but that’s obviously not the best solution lol. I have noticed though that drinking while playing VRC has helped kind of train my body not get motion sickness while not drinking and playing other general games.

Blade and Sorcery is ultra hard mode for testing your body.

Best way to reduce VR motion sickness and discomfort- throw it in the trash where it belongs

Source. I got a VR headset to play Half-Life: Alyx but the discomfort is almost unbearable, so I'm hoping some of these tips will help. Does anyone else have any advice?

Many people decided to reduce VR side effects by avoiding VR altogether.

Not only was it effective in reducing nausea, people found it enhanced their productivity.