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2025-11-23 23:32 UTC

@TomF Brilliant story! I didn't realise you'd worked on this. HL2 VR on DK1 is how I learnt that vr nausea can last for many hours, and no you absolutely can't push through it. Totally worth it though!

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@Farbs@mastodon.social 2025-11-23 23:35

@TomF oh, also I was fully expecting this story to involve VR locomotion breaking critical path level scripting. Fallout VR was a total nightmare to play because of that.

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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-11-24 00:57

@Farbs It is how we learned it, too! We put about 30 Valve people through a battery of questions before and after playing TF2 in DK1 for a fixed amount of time. I did all the interviews, and by the end of the week I asked about "nausea" so many times I'd given myself a Pavlovian response to the word that stayed with me for about 5 years afterwards.

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@Felice@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-11-24 07:29

@Farbs @TomF It really didn't help that DK1 was only 60Hz and there was really no good mitigation for input->display latency yet either. But yeah, I'd play for 10 minutes and be sick for an hour or more.

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