My husband updated my graphics card. I know, not because I saw him disarm my PC in his underwear, but because the waves of nausea hit me less and less as I go out to spend ten minutes of House Flipper. I can’t play games with masses of fast movements and immersive graphics without having to lose some Dramamine.
This is a challenge because I love video games and I am a game journalist who intends to play and write about those games. They gave up to the point where I frantically look for intelligent pixel art indie lo-fi titles. I want games that I can play and finish, with smart scenarios and functions for fighting and dialogue, and the most sensible of all that, have to have static and slow graphics systems.
Then why is this happening? According to one source, it is about human evolution and the evolution of the game. We must our ability to know where we are physically to a consistent feedback loop between our eyes, our inner ears and the overall sensory system.
When there is an alteration in this review loop, the result is moderate to severe nausea of the variety. Doctors call this phenomenon “signal conflict” and the general consensus turns out that “signal conflict” acts as a poison in the framework and nausea is the framework that seeks to expel the poison.
While humans have evolved slowly, video games have evolved at an immediate pace. Gone are the days of 2D charts and static backgrounds. Video games create living worlds with three-dimensional characters and scenarios and that’s enough to move the slowly moving human body.
Sitting at a table or in front of the TV, the eyes understand the movement of immersive scenes on the screen while the frame remains motionless. Disconnection causes the aforementioned “signal conflict” and a pause is required.
I know there are tactics to get around fast movement in a lot of games. I can play Minecraft if I get out of the swing. I can play House Flipper if I decrease the sensitivity of the mouse.
But there are types of games I can’t play, like first-person shooter games or real war games. What does Call of Duty look like? I don’t know, I couldn’t tell you. Even storytelling games like The Last Of Us 2 have too many runs and the scenes are too immersive for my sensitive build.
I know I’m not alone in this. I discovered solace on Google by searching for “House Flipper nausea” and locating Reddit message forums and messages about how other players take care of the road.
Diversity of solutions from converting configurations, creating modifications to allow you to replace configurations, disable the game, and read a book. On Dramamine’s website, the company offers several tactics to restrict video game sickness, adding take common breaks and bet or watch games for a few minutes at a time.
Another way to restrict video game nausea is to adjust your vision box (FOV). Humans have a 180-degree view. Typical console games have a 60-degree view box, while PC games have a view box of up to a hundred degrees or more.
When there is a hole between the picture box on the screen and your actual picture picture, headaches and nausea can occur. Adjusting the view box in the video settings menu can help alleviate some symptoms of nausea. The closer you are to the screen, the higher the view box settings to restrict headaches and nausea.
You can also repel video game nausea using the old “horizon trick”. On long car journeys, I felt speech problems as a child, and my father told me to look straight at the horizon for a while. He was cured!
I think my father was a genius (he is), but it’s actually just a way to recalibrate your inner ear and allow your body to understand movement correctly. You can apply it to video games by taking small breaks to realign your frame and your eyesight. You can look at a table or look at a silhouette on a shelf.
Having a well-lit play area is also useful as it increases visual references in your environment, which can help restrict the disease along the way. You can have cool LED lighting fixtures around your combat station. Even in low light, you can see reference issues, such as your desk, TV locker, or the edge of the screen.
An undeniable way for developers to make their games more responsive to movement is to create a benchmark in the game, whether it’s the player’s weapon or the character’s hands. You can also use a cross or a dot in the middle of the screen as a point. Many games already have this feature, but may not be activated automatically, so check your game settings for benchmarks.
Another way to make games more available in all grades is to have higher symbol frequencies. Spasmodic, rapid and unsafe movements can cause nausea and headaches because the brain reacts to what you expect to happen to stuttering movement on the screen.
There are console games that allow you the detail point you need to see on the screen, affecting the frequency of images, but it’s not yet a universal feature. PC games tend to have more features to decrease the quality of graphics, which can give you smoother movement and fewer reference conflicts.
I would love for more games to offer the ability to drastically decrease mouse sensitivity and replace motion settings. I realize it’s a wonderful call that all first person games also have a third-person camera view, but I would definitely play more if it were a popular choice. By then, I’ll be at my well-lit table, constantly adjusting the settings of my vision box with a box of nausea pills handy.
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