VR for seasickness?

[Enola]

Anyone have experience with the new See-level virtual reality technology?
https://www.seasick.com/

[Jim Cate]

Interesting idea... be good if it really works (and isn't too damn expensive!).

Jim

[sailormed]

Less high tech, but these seem to work. No personal experience.

[Chotu]

The true test: engine maintenance or cooking a complex meal in a seaway.

I'd love to try these out to see how they do.

[Tupaia]

A navy, I believe Danish experimented with an artificial horizon in their windowless ops rooms. It projected a stabilised line of light around the room. Gyroscope with a spinning LED. VR doesn't look that practical for being on watch.

[SailFastTri]

I don’t understand how it’s different from staying on deck and watching the horizon. Would love to have independent professionals evaluate this. A quick google search didn’t find anything independent other than some news reports - probably PR placements from the maker of this.
I’d pay the $1300 if it could really “cure” crew in 15 minutes as claimed.

[Lodesman]

Interesting idea. Chuckled at the website suggesting "one in four people [is] prone to seasickness". From my observations, it's much closer to 100% of people are prone to seasickness. Maybe 5-10% are highly resistant, and a similar number highly susceptible to seasickness. As someone has already pointed out, can't see how this improves over looking at the real horizon.

[psk125]

Agree with SailFast: spending time looking at the flat horizon is pretty standard fix for seasickness. VR would allow you to do that down below, which might be more comfortable and dryer, but the cost is high.

[fxykty]

Originally Posted by Enola

Anyone have experience with the new See-level virtual reality technology?

https://www.seasick.com/

Yes, we looked into them a few years ago as my wife suffers from chronic seasickness. Aside from the eye watering cost, we decided these weren’t suitable for passage making as the effects are temporary and repeated ‘dosing’ is required every few hours. Good enough for day charters and fishing trips or whale watching.

In practice, the sufferer has to wake up 15 minutes early for their watch and put on the headset. Then they’re good for some amount of time - each person is different - generally up to 2-3 hours. But then you need another 15 minute session with the headset. So how would this work for watch keeping, especially with only two people?

In my wife’s case, she discovered Scopolamine patches. It was magic experiencing her reaction on the second day of a passage where she exclaimed with wonder and delight “so this what it feels like to be at sea and feel well and hungry.”