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posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 27 2015, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the nose-knows dept.

As reported by The Register :

A Purdue University undergraduate has picked a way to stop virtual reality inducing motion sickness: program in a virtual nose.

Fixed-reference objects help to stop the sickness, Whittinghill says, but not every simulation lends itself to the inclusion of something like the window frames in a cockpit to give the brain something to latch onto.

While discussing this problem, undergraduate Bradley Ziegler piped up with the idea of programming in a virtual nose. The idea is that we're all used to our hooters haunting our field of vision, so much so that we take it for granted that it's always possible to see a slice of schnoz.

Subjects given the virtual nose staved off simulation sickness longer than their noseless counterparts in a variety of simulations, including a sickness-inducing roller coaster ride. The original source provides more information, including a finding that test subjects didn't notice the virtual nose during testing, even displaying skepticism over its presence when told about it later during post-testing debriefings.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Marand on Friday March 27 2015, @01:35AM

    by Marand (1081) on Friday March 27 2015, @01:35AM (#163059) Journal

    What can I say? I've always appreciated occasional alliteration abuse.

    Don't hate; alliterate. :)

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by buswolley on Friday March 27 2015, @03:41AM

    by buswolley (848) on Friday March 27 2015, @03:41AM (#163095)

    Abuse?!!

    I CANT UNSEE my NOSE!

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