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Watch a Man Spend 48 Hours in Virtual Reality - C C - Jan 10, 2016

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/watch-a-man-spend-48-hours-in-virtual-reality

EXCERPT: One theory for why people get sick from virtual reality is that the conflict of sensory information leads to all sorts of nasty effects—your eyes perceive movement, but your inner ear doesn't. Whatever the cause, individuals differ wildly in how susceptible they are. I don’t know how resistant Thorsten S. Wiedemann is to the effects of virtual reality sickness, but I hope he is, because he's about to spend two consecutive days with a Vive headset attached to his face....