3D sickness?

[Aylmer]

I just started playing Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne on the PS2, and bought a strategy guide for it. In the back of the guide, there is a Q&A session between a guy from Atlus and one of the Japanese developers.

In that discussion, the developer mentions a phenomenon in Japan among gamers known as '3D sickness' which is very similar to motion sickness.

One of my favorite genre of games are science fiction racing games, like FZero, Kinetica, etc. and I have never had any of the symptoms ascribed to 3D sickness. However, my wife can only watch me play those games for a minute before she has to leave the room as they make her stomach queasy.

Then, I got Katamari Damacy, and after playing that for a few hours, I did get sick at the stomach. In fact, it now happens every time I play it. Now, I know that as soon as I feel any symptoms, I need to quit, and it will go away. But if I ignore it, it gets pretty bad.

Has anyone else here had the symptoms of 3D sickness?

[tekbit]

I get sick if I read in a moving vehicle. Not that that has anything to do with what you asked. But I think it has something to do with focusing on a still object while in motion. I don't know....

[VGR Veteran]

aww man I can't even play a game without getting sick. any 3-d game makes me sick. if I ignore it I get a headache for days.

[RedZero]

For me, it doesn't happen often at all, yet for certain 3rd-person games that have very blocky cameras I can get sick pretty easily. For me the greatest examples are Shadow Man 2 and Blood Omen 2. I got sick after about fifteen minutes. Which sucks, because Blood Omen 2 is a pretty fun game.