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CoolestBeans | 2 years ago

You really put into words something I've experienced but couldn't articulate. Every time I've used a headset I've gotten not fatigued but just a general feeling of malaise and had to put it down and take a break. I would imagine with repetition you get used to it but yeah its definitely a factor.

Although I think part of the bleh feeling is just having to subconsciously adapt to the imperfections of a headset. For example, you can't just glance at anything and expect to see it, you have to shift your head for some things. Or like the headset itself moving ever so slightly on the face and your eye moving out of the way of the center of the lens. It gets exhausting and you don't know you're doing it unless you're actively paying attention.

I will say most of the advertising shows people interacting with 2D interfaces in 3D space so maybe this is how they're getting around it combined with just better build quality, better thought out straps, etc.

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trinsic2|2 years ago

Yea maybe you can get used to it. I have only used heat sets a few times.

One thing I noticed was that My brain had two visual maps competing against each other. Reality and the virtual world. I sometimes found myself feeling the sensations from the virtual world from time to time while I was not using the head sets. It went away with time, but it was interesting anyway.