Live Poll: IMDb Poll Board: Virtual Reality (VR)

@Master_Strange

good choice, you have more 2 if you wish... 

@dibyayan_chakravorty

thank you for your suggestion,👍 Inception is already on the list, would you have another title? 

@NoRa_FoKa​ included!

@dan_dassow​ @Tsarstepan I included the first 5 suggestions. Please tell me just before publishing the poll (if ever), so if there still is free slots I will then break the rule (MAX 5) and add the rest of your "Honorable mentions" suggestions...

@mariojacobs​ ,

I misread your limit of five suggestions as a limit of two suggestions. I'm happy with you including my top five. If you need to add the remaining two from my list, you may do so at your discretion. Conversely, if you generate more interest in your poll, please feel free to remove my third through fifth choices.

@dan_dassow​ I will do the following: I will add the extra suggestions NOW and remove them if necessary.

@Maxence_G​ Before COVID, I joined a VR club. For me, it is too expensive to have VR equipment at home. Unfortunately, the club went bankrupt due to the pandemic and never recovered.

I must confess, I was amazed at feeling inside a 1960s space capsule or flowing along the human bloodstream. I want to repeat the experience.

VR Horror games are impossible to play. Too scary. One minute of gameplay, and I had to put the headset down.

But I played a VR game called Serious Sam. Very addictive and a lot of fun. After I left the VR club building, being back in the real world, walking the streets, it took me a minute or so to realize I was not in the VR game anymore. The VR effect/illusion "lingers" in you. 

Finally, Once I went to a 4D movie theater ("4 dimensions"). The chair shakes, and there is wind blowing in your face. Even trying to hold out the situation with courage, I felt sick and had to leave the place. I hated it. Never again.

@mariojacobs​ and @Maxence_G ,

Flight simulation has used VR for many years either with or without projection onto another screen or a dome simulator. It is well known that VR can induce vertigo, the sensation that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning. This feeling may be barely noticeable, or it may be so severe that you find it difficult to keep your balance and do everyday tasks.

When I worked in flight simulation over 25 years ago, we had experienced pilots become severely sick to the point of throwing up due to vertigo. In effect their inner ears gave them their true position and their eyes told a conflicting position.

I have severe vertigo. I generally avoid VR, immersive video and IMAX when I know that there will be rapid motion.

@dan_dassow​ 

> that there will be rapid motion.

To my surprise, in those VR games, you do not MOVE in the game, you TELEPORT from one point to another. I guess the developers opted for this trick to avoid the player's dizziness.

@dan_dassow​ another story: in the 1990s I did a short stint job for a helicopter simulator (BO105 I guess) at Eurocopter/Germany, at that time it was still named Deutsche Aerospace, short after it was renamed DaimlerBenz Aerospace. Curiously, it was a former Messerschmitt site.