I get motion sickness playing 3D games, but I still want to play them.  Everquest was a huge challenge for me, and I still have troubles, every so often.  Before Everquest, I had never really played a 3D game to any length, because every time I tried, I'd have to go lay down for a couple of hours after playing for a thirty minutes.

I'm not the only one with this problem; many other people suffer from it, too.  And many of those people are women.  One sure-fire way to turn people off to your game is to make them sick while playing it.  One of the Hot Topics lately is "how do we get women to buy our games?"  Well, I can tell ya rule #1 right here:  Don't make games that make women ill.

I think the developers of games probably do not think a lot about it.  Well, a few do now, because I have ranted a lot about it to anybody who will listen.  ;)  I don't think they ignore the problem because they are mean and/or apathetic; I think it's because they don't realize that a good percentage of the game playing public (and an even bigger percentage of the non-game playing public -- the ones they need to reach most) share this problem.

I'm guessing that the percentage of simsick prone people is smallest in game development & related industries -- Why would you want a job working on something that made you physically ill every day?  So because they don't suffer from it, they don't think about it, it isn't important to them, and I Get Sick.  Yuck.

Before Everquest hit the shelves, I did a little research on Simulator Sickness.  I did the research for developers, who I want to fix this problem.  I also did it for me, hoping I could find my own solution to the problem, cause everybody knows that it is much easier to solve your own problem than have a dev team solve it for you.  ;)

Here's what I've found/done so far:

Have anything to add?  Let me know.