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How a New Zealand Company Cracked the VR Motion Sickness Problem: Put the User in a 360-Degree Rotating Sphere

By Rain Noe - August 14, 2020

in Tech

Depending on what you're doing with it, VR could stand for Vomit Reality. But now New Zealand tech company Eight360 has cracked the problem of how to eliminate the nausea that comes when your body doesn't move along with what your eyes are showing you, at least for vehicle simulators.

Their solution is the Nova Platform, a six-foot-diameter spherical cockpit that can rotate in every possible direction:

Check it out in action:

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Individual gamers, don't get too excited yet; the Nova is so expensive to make and maintain that the company won't even sell them. What they offer is an annual lease for $150,000. Thankfully, maintenance and upgrades are included.

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simon a.

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The first next step should be to make a decent base matching the sphere design. No checker plate.

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Doctor Shields

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That 12-plate sphere is pretty clever

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