Tested: Can low-end PC specs really give you VR sickness? - vasbinderteall1979

It's widely believed that a wholesome VR experience requires a secure 90 frames per second, and that falling regular a single fles below that threshold can cause nausea— forcing you to spew chunks.

To find unsuccessful if that's truly true, I definite to try out it. For my swollen-end control computer hardware, I misused an AVADirect Exemplar 2 box. This PC doesn't just meet the specs for VR, it exceeds them with a GeForce GTX 1080, 64GB of DDR4, and an overclocked Core i7-6700K. Indeed, AVA Direct built this PC after consulting VR specialty site RoadToVR.com for steering on achieving an best VR experience.

edit 1.00 02 41 09.still001 — The AVADirect Exemplar 2 features a GeForce GTX 1080 and Core i7-6700K.

For the contralto-stop test rig—the one that would presumably induce collocate-tossing—I bypassed a minimum-specification system, and went straight to a below-spec PC: It boasted an elderly Core i5-3570K, 8GB of DDR3, and a bone-stock GeForce GTX 960. The minimum GPU suggested for HTC's VIVE is a GeForce GTX 970.

The game for this chunk challenge wasRaw Data. Information technology's an awing VR shooter that forces you to duck and move far more than most other VR games. You're besides forced to constantly check for enemies behind and above you. It's a 360-degree VR environment shooter, and those pans testament drink dow you if you have any sensitivity to move malady.

To better understand the physical effects of VR, I talked to Kent Bye, who hosts RoadToVR.com's Voices of VR podcast. He has a wealth of knowledge almost what causes "simulation," Beaver State VR, nausea.

Reported to Good day, not everyone has the same loathsome chemical reaction to dropped-frame VR, nor is the nausea immediate. A great deal multiplication, Bye said, players don't get hit with sickness until after a VR session is finished.

That actually happened to a co-doer of mine who played Raw Information on our sub-specification machine for 20 proceedings. He was fine during gameplay, but once he left and had lunch, IT hit him and he was on the put for an hour of recovery.

But punt to my test. To make things a little Sir Thomas More absorbing, we distinct to stack up the coldcock with an odious assortment of food that I would force feed myself until I could eat no more. (To this Clarence Shepard Day Jr., I still suspect that the shrimp I ate was fit by it's prime.)

Voices of VR server Kent Bye said dropped frames in VR can indeed cause sickness, but it seldom leads to a full hurl.

Testament it hurl?

There's plainly no comparison between our wedge-spec PC and the AVA Direct Exemplar 2 and its GeForce GTX 1080. On the AVADirect machine, VR on high isbeatifically, buttery sinuate.

The sub-spec box, meanwhile, was A laggy Eastern Samoa you'd expect. Individual like Bye, who'sparticularlysensitive to dropped frames, would surely cheat the head-mounted reveal in a matter of minutes. But I pushed on for a good 45 minutes.

Given, I have an adamantium constitution. I rarely get sea under the weather. I can read in the aft of a railcar releas down California's winding Highway 1, and I in reality enjoy turbulence when fast-flying. So did the sub-spec VR box do me in when paired with many gross foodstuffs?

No more.

But I have to confess, I got pretty damn close to hurling, and had to sit down after my VR session for few minutes. I'm pretty sure I couldn't play for another 60 minutes along that sub-spec package without having to call an Uber to drive me home.

My reaction, Bye same, is beautiful typical. Patc simulation nausea can truly make you nauseated, solely extreme cases—which I tried really hard to reach—might make one cast anchor.

The vast legal age of people bequeath be many look-alike my co-doer, who was knocked on his tail end for an afternoon.

Either elbow room, I think the BASIC lesson is to habitus a box seat that can run VR comfortably for to the highest degree citizenry. I certainly wouldn't privation to use our sub-spec box equally a showcase for introducing VR to friends, lest I exist blamed for laying waste their entire day, or worsened—making them hurl.