This is the first I'm even hearing of MSFS 2024, I figured 2020 would just be a continuous WIP for a long time to come. I used it for practice but haven't dusted the equipment off in awhile, but this sounds like some nice improvements. 2020 was already pretty astounding in its quality and the leap from the existing flight sims.
2020 is astonishing in VR. I get the same melancholy I do on a real plane and can fly for hours sightseeing out the window. There is also a real sense of peril.
Sim games are perfect for avoiding motion sickness. You'll typically get those when your avatar walks around. This is why in first person games, you'll teleport places instead of walking in VR
MS Flight Sim makes me sick, as does any driving game or any game where locomotion involves the view moving without associated real-world movement unless teleportation is used.
I can play Beat Saber, PokerStars VR, Zombie Training Simulator, Gorn, etc., for literally hours at a time and feel fine.
But in a racing game, as soon as the car starts moving, even at only 5 mph, I get nauseous. Same in MS Flight Sim. I don't have to be doing crazy maneuvers to feel sick, just taxiing makes me sick.
This is pretty much the norm for most people. If virtual world movement matches real world movement, you're fine. But as soon as there's a mismatch, that's where motion sickness begins.
One of these days, I'll try taking motion sickness medication beforehand and see if it helps.
I’m the same as you and I tried taking motion sickness medication and it did absolutely nothing for me. Maybe you’ll be luckier, but I think some of us just aren’t made for VR.
FWIW I get motion sick easily in real life too, so I think I’m just screwed. I really wanted to play GT7 VR on PS5, but it was an absolute nonstarter unfortunately.
Maybe it's something like the French saying Le Mal du Pays
"Le Mal du Pays is usually translated as 'homesickness,' or 'melancholy. ' If you put a finer point on it, it's more like 'a groundless sadness called forth in a person's heart by a pastoral landscape"
