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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by nvarsj on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:14PM (#34479600)
High refresh rate makes people feel sick. It's "too real", such that the brain can't synchronize what it's seeing to what it's feeling motion wise. Ultimately a 2d plane is not optimal for a realistic experience. By it's very nature, film is impressionist.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by Godel_unicode on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:38PM (#34479942)
Do you have a citation for that? Lots of people play video games on big screens for hours at a time and don’t get motion sickness.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by nvarsj on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:41PM (#34480714)
There were lots of reports of this with the hobbit, e.g. https://theweek.com/articles/469863/why-isthe-hobbit-making-....

Being on a big screen probably makes it much worse.

Also I’d conjecture video games are different. It’s like driving a car. Since you are directly controlling the camera usually, I think this helps your brain avoid nausea. Although there’s plenty of people who can’t play FPS either because it makes them feel sick.

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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by Godel_unicode on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:50PM (#34480848)
Those reports were about the imax version though, and I have personally seen that happen in imax theaters showing 24fps content. That’s field of view, not framerate.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by mort96 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:01PM (#34483246)
People who play games typically don't typically feel sick during cutscenes, even long ones, even when they're running at 60/120/144 FPS.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by davidgay on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:30PM (#34479817)
Sorry, but my personal experience with motion sickness and games says it's triggered by too-low framerates. Early 2000s laptops were particularly unbearable.
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