Do ultrawides help with motion sickness?

Davanius

Davanius

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Can anyone tell me if ultra wide monitors help with reducing motion sickness?

I have a friend who suffers with it on some games even some 3rd person shooters like gears of war.

Thanks.
 
They make it worse if anything (and I can vouch from my personal experience). Though its not exclusive to UW, but to any larger monitor which occupies more field of view.

Motion sickness happens because there is long-time discrepancy between what eyes see (movement) and what your motion sense fells (sitting still). This forces defensive reaction in your brain/body - it basically thinks that you are poisoned and are hallucinating and induces vomit to purge the alleged poison.
How quickly it happens and how sensitive you are is varied by person - basically, if you are not sensitive, it will not matter if monitor UW or any other.

Smaller monitor reduces it because eyes see enough of static world around with peripheral vision - this enough to tell brain that "World around me is not moving, I am just looking at moving picture". When you fill more of your peripheral vision with movement as with VR and UW (or any large monitor up close) your eyes will lose the static reference frame and you get more motion sick...
 
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Never had it with my uw, I only had motion sickness with one game and that was the original half life years ago, why half life I don't know
 
Davanius said:
Thanks to both of you for the responses. Do you know if placing a light source behind the monitor can help?
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Placing a light source behind the monitor may help give brain more reference and reduce motion sickness, but it would be quite non-ergonomic and bad for your vision...
The recommendation that background behind the monitor is roughly the same light level as the screen on average if you want minimal eyestrain.
Also if you place bright light behind the monitor, this will significantly reduce the perceivable contrast - your eyes won't be able to see dark shades well because of the glare.
 
RidingTheFlow said:
Placing a light source behind the monitor may help give brain more reference, but it would be quite non-ergonomic and bad for your vision...
The recommendation that background behind the monitor is roughly the same light level as the screen on average if you want minimal eyestrain.
Also if you place bright light behind the monitor, this will significantly reduce the perceivable contrast - your eyes won't be able to see dark shades well because of the glare.
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Thank you very much. :)
 
antec used todo a led strip that stuck to rear of monitor that helps.

but its normally the motion you get with movement in game, and some games just set someone off, happens with me :/
 
So far the only game that has ever made me feel sick is Skyrim. This was fixed by making sure mouse acceleration was turned off, and the FoV increased to 95.
The input lag caused by v-sync can also be a bit sickening. Freesync dose a much better job of keeping this sort of thing away.
 
Have an ultrawide. The only game that ever gave me motion sickness out of the box was Singularity (oh and the pod race level on lego star wars).

Increased the FOV and it helped.

Not sure if the FOV automatically increases with ultrawide, a lot of times I have to manually modify it. For me 115 to 120 is the sweet spot.
 
Very interesting reading the comments.

I thought that maybe an ultra wide would be a good thing for this problem but even with the perfect hardware setup, any game could trigger it off it seems.

Thanks to all who have contributed. :)
 
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