Giddy... Giddy...

How the hell to prevent motion sickness?! Or simulation sickness, which is more appropriate for my case here. Just as I expected, I have problems playing the Vegas 2 which Tri recommended. I start getting sweat, feeling to puke and yawning a lot while navigating my character around in those 3D shooting games!! I had this with GTA on PS2 long ago which I abandoned that game.

I did a search on the internet and realise there are many people having this problem when playing 3D shooting games. In a forum, one suggested to cover a blanket around the TV and also his head to make the view like inside of a tent. Another one said he took pills meant for car sickness. LOL!

The cause of simulation sickness is that the illusion of motion created by the virtual world, combined with the absence of motion detected by the inner ear, causes the area postrema in the brain to infer that one is hallucinating and further conclude that the hallucination is due to poison ingestion. The brain responds by inducing nausea and mass vomiting, to clear the supposed toxin.
- Wikipedia

In other words, my eyes were staring at the TV showing the view of my character in the game, telling my brain that I'm moving and turning around while my inner ear says I'm actually sitting still in my couch. I think I probably stared too deep into the screen and got too immersed in the game. At the same time not yet familiar with the controls - I can't navigate smoothly. I bought GTA for PS3 also, I supposed it's going to be like this. Then I have Resident Evil 5 which Nicholas told me it's like this too!! Have to cope with this problem. I don't want to waste and abandon the games... Zzz...