Villar is a game-changing technology with a terrible secret
not everyone can use it the problem motion sickness
some people get down right ill the biggest factor in getting a solid VR
experience that doesn't make your stomach wanna climb out through your
throat is damn good hardware now you already know a good keep you like this
GeForce GTX 1080 or Radeon rx 480 is half the equation
but shipped companies say the CPU makes a difference to Intel for example this
is a quad core CPU without hyper threading can suffer frame drops just by
having Chrome open while running VR so what exactly makes you sick how the hell
should I know I'm just a regular old PC gamer living in a basement but rent has
gotten so expensive I needed a roommate so everyone me Kent by D our expert and
host of the voices of B our podcast Kent what's making me sick well Gordon motion
sickness happens in real life whenever someone is moving but they're not
actually seeing the cues of that movement so for example when someone's
in the bottom of the boat can they get motion sick well in VR it's
like the opposite because we are showing you all these visual signals that you're
moving but you're not actually feeling it and it's that sensory disconnect
actually the motion sickness now some people
believe that motion sickness evolved out of eating poisonous very hungry smell
good these berries will make you dizzy and they'll make you sick because you
want to vomit up the toxins one of the biggest triggers for motion sickness is
drop frames because you have this expectation for what stability looks
like whenever you drop frames then it creates this sensory disconnection and
so you really do need a high-end PC because you have to maintain 90 frames
per second because even if you drop a few frames below that that can be a
trigger for motion sickness and some people to find out if all this is true
we decided to test it we pin a high end B already PC against the kind of low end
box that you might have in your basement for our no excuses VR writing machine we
have a VA directs exemplar to box built after consulting with the road to be our
website it's a machine with a liquid-cooled core i7 6700 K 16 gigs of
ram half terabyte SSD and GeForce GTX 1080 and are not ready for VR box is
this sold hunkajunk it has an older Core i5 35 70 K chip eight gigs of ram and a
geforce gtx 960 both the cpu and GPU are below the recommended specs
for PR in order to accelerate Gordon's journey Indonesia and to make this
process more scientifical we have a number of different items for Gordon to
ingest including pizza a submarine sandwich smoked oysters crema broccoli
soup a shrimp cocktail bananas barbecue chicken wings milk in a
hot pocket first up is the souped-up exemplar box playing raw data which
forces you to move and spin around constantly
and now for the sub spec VR machine now normally it may take some time for
people to hit the threshold of feeling the motion sickness but for the sake of
science Warren's going to push through beyond
that point
so there you go Gordon is definitely feeling at impacts at that low NPC
Gordon how are you feeling
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