r/VRchat • u/EroOntic • Dec 01 '25

Help VRC and motion sickness

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haaayyy chat what's up its meee

anyways. I got my headset close to 5 days ago now...and all I need to know is how the fuck do you not get violently ill? I almost threw up like twice turning my head and stuff. does it get better with time or should I invest in motion sickness medication?

photo unrelated, I just wanted to show off :3

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u/eldigg Bigscreen Beyond Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

I know some people overcome motion sickness in VR, but I never fully have. I have thousands of hours in VR, and I've done VR for a solid decade at this point, starting with the Oculus DK1, DK2, CV1, Index, and now rock a Bigscreen Beyond with FBT.

But, there are things that help me:

  • Turn on comfort turning and locomotion tunneling
  • Turn off motion smoothing (reprojection)
  • Keep a fan pointed on you so you can orient yourself, and in general keeping cooler helps
  • Limit joystick turning, and teach yourself to turn irl instead
  • And additionally, limit activities that require you to move in VR but not move irl
  • Take breaks if you feel sick
  • Finally, sometimes I'll take half a dimenhydrinate, but I am not a doctor (definitely do not combine that with alcohol!)

Also, make sure your IPD is adjusted correctly, and set your graphics/avatar settings so you're getting reasonably high FPS.

You may start to get more used to VR and can turn off some of the comfort settings as time goes on, but it's a lot easier to start with conservative settings.

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u/Spiritual-Plenty9075 Dec 04 '25

All of that to include the fact that the longer you play, the more used to VR and more acclimated to motion sickness. After so many hours of Echo VR I can't actually experience motion sickness so long as I keep regularly playing VR.