Hi All,

My team is about to start active development on a VR Action Platformer. We're partially worried about causing too much VR sickness (enough for people to take off the headset). If you could please read the idea below and let me know what you think.

Game Idea:
VR Action Platformer where the player plays as a hero in training. The player gains new superpowers by completing missions and exploring the general area. Each power has a movement (and possibly attack) focused ability. By combining multiple abilities players will be able to create their traversal systems (allowing the player to adapt the VR experience to what they can enjoy). We plan for the missions to be timed courses where you have to get to location in a certain amount or catch up to a specific object. We also want to add in attacking, however, we fear it might be a bit much with the fast movement in VR. Finally, we plan to add a ton of skins and visual focused loot.

We created a survey to see if people would be interested in the idea before we started active development. We'd really appreciate it if you could fill out the survey if you like or hate the general idea. We also didn't just want to put out the survey without giving back so included at the end of the survey is a link to a 4k wallpaper from a level mockup we did.
 
Only 3 minutes to complete, and we'll love you forever!
http://info.dvnc.tech/vr-idea-survey

Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think!

My personal experience is that third person cameras with mininal sway and bob seem to work well. First person cameras that jump about cause nausea when i'm tired at around the 20 minute mark, while if i'm caffinated and/or alert, i'm usually good until i get dehydrated.

For example, Mirrors Edge - even though its not a VR game will trigger me after about 15 minutes if tired - while i can play various VR games that dont have the camera shake/effects in first person for a few hours at a time.

I have played a few mario ripoffs on steam, plarformers do not give me motion sickness, because the brain takes control of the view differently just as you would play a simple non-VR platformer, it's just a little more immersive. It takes a few minutes to get used to, but other than that i don't know. It might be the other way around for some

1st person, no chance, unless maybe you are piloting a mech or something and have a fixed cockpit which can help a lot with motion sickness. 3rd person with a fixed (head movement only) camera can work really well.