Motion Sickness

In a vast majority of gamers would one time or another experience motion sickness from video games which is known as "Simulation Sickness." It's a common thing that can happen with a small headache or can be more extreme like vomiting. The most common would be First Person Shooters, which I sadly am very bad at suffering from. But it can also be games such as Silent Hill as a learned from this guy who suffers Simulation Sickness while playing Silent Hill 3. I have yet to vomit but I feel dizzy and bad headaches with a bit of nausea.

From a part of Wikipedia's Motion Sickness describes more about Simulation Sickness.

"Simulation sickness

Simulation sickness, or simulator sickness, is a condition where a person exhibits symptoms similar to motion sickness caused by playing computer/simulation/video games.

The most common theory for the cause of simulation sickness is that the illusion of motion created by the virtual world, combined with the absence of motion detected by the inner ear, causes the area postrema in the brain to infer that one is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing nausea and mass vomiting, to clear the supposed toxin. According to this theory, simulation sickness is just another form of motion sickness.

The symptoms are often described as quite similar to that of motion sickness. Some can range from headache, drowsiness, nausea, dizziness, vomiting and sweating. A research done at the University of Minnesota had students play Halo for less than an hour, and found that up to 50 percent felt sick afterwords."

I looked for a while for some sort of remedy to make the walls stop spinning, but a lot of ideas aren't for everyone. Such as medicine for nausea, or painkillers like Aspirin for headaches. But the best remedy would be to only play a game for a certain time then take a half to an hour break.


I have to recommend most of reading this article written by Looney Games.