Comment Re:Or is it unrealistic speed? (Score 1) 154
Hardly - you up to join me for a 10 mile hike tomorrow?
Seriously - walk around for a while at a normal walking pace and pay attention to how fast your body actually turns when going around corners. Or sit somewhere and watch other people do so as they go about their day - it's not nearly as fast as you would imagine. Certainly we *can* turn much faster without much effort, but we don't normally do so. Which means that FPS style games are simulating us turning much faster than normal, and if you add in wide-FOV VR you end up in the situation where your eyes are telling you your turning much faster than you're acclimated to, and your inner ears that you're standing still rather than subjecting them to the rather divergent set of accelerations such a maneuver should be causing.
Why would I hike 10 miles with you?
Why would you even compare "normal walking pace" to an FPS?
Beyond that, 3-4 seconds for a 360 at a casual pace is still ridiculously absurd. I'd say anything over 1.5 seconds indicates either obesity, octogeneriacity, or some other sort of disability.
I was referring to shitty FOVs for console games, not absurd fisheye Quake shit. A correct field of view can be determined based on the display and distance. You won't get motion sickness from a wide FOV if you just set the FOV correctly.
And your inner ear takes a back seat to your vision. Your brain will quickly ignore your inner ear if it's not matching what you're seeing unless you have a medical condition. This is why the spinning tunnel illusion works (http://vortextunnel.com/). This is why it's difficult to stand still with your eyes closed. This is why the VR demos have shit like walking across a high beam. This is why when you're dizzy from spinning around 10 times with your head down on a baseball bat at the company picnic, you should focus on the guy in the outfield to steady yourself, not the ball on the tee a few feet in front of you. The more your vision mismatches what your inner ear says, the more quickly your brain stops listening to your inner ear.
When your inner ear is overriding your vision for whatever reason, you get a condition known as vertigo. If your inner ear is working normally and you have vertigo, you get a little dizzy whenever that fluid sloshes around. If your inner ear is fucked up due to infection or whatever and it's sending you bad data, you get debilitating loss of balance, motion sickness, etc.