Sounds like Virtual Environment Sickness (a perceptual dissonance malady somewhat akin to seasickness). While it affects about 30% of the population from the USAF studies that I've seen, I haven't read anything to suggest that either the SL viewer or LCD monitors affect the overall prevalence of the condition.
On 24/03/2010 9:55 PM, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > Not to disagree with the entirety of your rant, but this bit seems > completely off the wall. > > On 2010-03-23, at 21:39, Jonathan Irvin wrote: > >> Not to be rude, but if people are getting vertigo, epilepsy, etc. >> from SL...viewer 2.0 isn't going to make a difference. Viewer 1.23 >> would have the same effect. Maybe not in your coveted sidebar, but >> it SL in general. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. This >> is common knowledge. >> > It is? I'd never heard of it before. I don't get vertigo from SL. I do > get it from some games, like Descent, and I was getting it from the > sudden uncontrolled slewing of the viewport in the 2.0 viewer. But not > SL. > > >> LCD monitors nowadays will cause those effects *regardless* of the >> application running, so please don't make someone else's illness as >> your point in voicing your opinions. >> > Um, what? Cite please. > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > > -- Tateru Nino http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/ _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
