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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bobcast How close do you sit to your TV or monitor? You're probably experiencing "reverse motion sickness." Your body receives its postural input from several sources. With motion sickness we only need to worry about two of them, your visual signals, and everything else (The proprioceptive and vestibular). In normal motion sickness you become ill because you have a fixed horizon, but your body is in motion. Your brain gets confused as to why the different senses are conflicting and starts stimulating pathways that induce nausea/vomiting/vertigo as a side effect in order to resolve that conflict. With "reverse motion sickness" your position is fixed, but your horizon is moving. The same internal conflict arises and you'll start to feel sick. If you are sitting to close to a TV or monitor so that the only horizon you see is a screen that is always in motion, your brain will think that you're in motion, however you're not. Try backing up some, so that more of the room is in your field of vision. I had the same problem when I first started doing laproscopy. I would get very dizzy and would have to look away to settle it down. I found moving the monitors back a foot or so stopped all of that. [/quote] Ignore Doogie Howser here for he knows nothing!! Actually Dr. Bob's probably right (and your uncle). So, if you're sitting 6" away from your awesome rad 72" 1080P 120hz LCD and playing Durandal at 60FPS, well, you're pretty awesome. However, you'll probably be more likely to run into some "motion sickness" type ailments. At least Ruben that you got to play through the games with Aleph One. I only got to play them a little bit because I had a lot of trouble getting them to work and I suxorx using a keyboard to move. Which is really pretty funny since I used to play Quake and UT99 competitively in high school. Too bad I didn't get a chance to play Marathon back then as well. ~B.B.
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