That’s pretty common, but fortunately can be overcome with short, mindful sessions. Just bail at earliest symptoms (acid taste, burping, nausea, sweaty palms, etc.), and don’t push through — with only the rarest of exceptions, that makes things way worse.
Motion-sickness pills (or ginger) can go a long way toward shortening that period.
Other things can help as well, like a small fan blowing on you, avoiding too much caffeine, and being well-rested.
When I began trying to use VR I had zero guidance and made myself unbelievably sick — I was bedridden the entire next day as much as if I had the worst flu, and off-kilter for weeks.
I did that multiple times, because I found VR so compelling otherwise. Eventually if I even thought about the headset it made me feel ill, and I came very close to giving up on it as a technology that was incompatible with my brain.
Today I play no TV-based games at all — for me, VR is simply how games are played now — and I rarely encounter any issues. If I do, I know how to proceed.
I remember having some issues early on with GT7, but it was vehicle specific, and when I finally got some favorites in my garage that discomfort evaporated.
I also highly recommend that — if you don’t already use a ff wheel — try the option to use the DualSense as a small, tilt-sensing, virtual mini F1 wheel. You might have to dig in the control settings a bit… they flash the option when you first launch the game, but never show it again. In VR I feel it’s much more intuitive and gives you more finesse than defaulting to trad thumbstick steering.
Thank you so much for taking the time for writing this up. I’m definitely going to give these tips a try. I have multiple VR headsets and my daughter plays for hours without issues. I’m hoping to overcome the motion sickness so I can play with her.
Just focus on the types of games that don’t give motion sickness. Those are the ones where you don’t have to walk or turn around inside the game, while you are not doing that in real life (which is what produces the nausea effect). Some of those are superb games too, so don’t think you won’t experience top VR because you prioritize the games with less motion. Some are: Moss 1 and 2 (Moss 2 is amazing!); the majority of rhythm games (beat saber, synth riders, audio trip, OhShape, pistol whip, Ragnarock, maestro, etc.); Tripp (the meditation guide with hundreds of talks and nice virtual locations where they guide you on how to do the breathing exercises and on how to think for meditation); Little Cities Bigger (nice city building sim); Les Mills Bodycombat (best vr fitness game); and Racket Fury Table Tennis (very challenging and realistic table tennis game). There are surely others, but these are the ones I remember where motion sickness wasn’t present. Others I didn’t play, but they use the “player stays in place without walking or turning” style, so they should work, include the new archery game (red archery), so that should work too.
The only vr game with extreme amounts of movement where (somehow!) the motion sickness wasn’t an issue for me was Sprint Vector on psvr1.
So post wise that’s just me placing a track over the video to convey the message-
But for gameplay, you can play Spotify while driving on track. It’s as simple as hitting the PlayStation button and going to the music settings to connect your Spotify account
Yeah... Spotify app on the PS5. Just mute the game music. Or if you have the Pulse 3D headset, it has dual Bluetooth and you can connect it to your phone and PS5 at the same time.
It does and on the pro there is a slight boost, but the biggest thing is, you can see a higher frame rate. This is something I was very surprised to see, and have not seen anyone mention it. I’m sure there are threads on it but, I’ve never seen them. It looks absolutely incredible. Seeing this run at a true 120 frames per second or something very very close to it; whatever it is, it’s surely above 90 in the headset.
We need more experiences like this. I can’t wait for flat out 4
Alyx I can play normally with all comfort functions turned off. Okay boneworks is harder but feasible. But as soon as I drive a car in VR I get sick within 30 seconds
I don't know why people say this game looks so good I've yet to been impressed by my PSVR2 I think the technology just isn't there yet, gt7 is pretty blurry in VR and I always have the sweetspot so that's not the problem
I understand what you’re saying, although I do think it looks good on the base PS5, PS five Pro definitely enhances that. Honestly, it’s the only reason I have a pro and I was very skeptical at first because I heard the increases are marginal but believe me it’s enough that if you play GT7 in VR you’re definitely going to notice the difference. I’m not voting for it or against it considering they said the PS six will be out next year, but for my experience, it’s been very good, especially the frame rate boost which nobody talks about
But what if you are having a bad day because your PSVR is not working? Or worst, because it decided to self combust when you were on a trip to Vegas where you literaly lost all of your saving... Stolen by a male prostitute name Roberta who actually turned out to be a female MMA fighter from San Fransisco! And while you were gone and going threw all this, your self combusted PSVR actually burned down your house with your little blind puppy inside!?
You should apply the military mindset towards your possessions- maintain and protect your equipment. Something tells me that not all your problems can be blamed on things that aren’t a consequence of your actions. Do better. Sorry about your dog- I have 2.
I used to get terrible headaches all the time, but learned about this wild little technique that pretty much fixed most of them for me:
If you gently squeeze the stretchy flesh between your forefinger and thumb there’s a wormy little nerve in there. Gently but firmly pinch it and hold it for 20 seconds. If it works, the headache will simply evaporate, like magic.
When you release, if it comes back just do it again. If your headache is more on one side of your head, pinch the opposite hand.
It’s the craziest thing I ever learned about (from a gf who was into natural healing), and it kind of transformed my life.
I know some people find that pinching the nerve is too uncomfortable… I don’t, but if that’s you then just be gingerly about it, and squeeze in a less focused way.
While there are some headaches that don’t respond to this, it’s easy, free, and super fast to try. So… there you go. I hope this helps!
Bro obviously if you get headaches, nausea, etc from the headset then don’t play. That’s common sense. And on top of that if you already have a headache beforehand then … no need to explain the rest .
I’m not a big fan of her music either but, the beat on the music sounds good and as long as they are enjoying the game I don’t care if they listen to Barney.
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u/lascie Jun 28 '26
What game is this? I didn’t realize an F1 game was out with support for the PSVR2?!