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BIMx making me ill

sarahric
Contributor
I'm exporting and checking a BIMx model on my desktop with a large monitor and it gives me motion sickness moving around the model. It would be less so if I the program did not operate in full screen. Can the window be minimised/resized?
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Katalin Takacs
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Hi,

BIM Explorer runs in full screen mode only, but we have already registered this request to our database.

Best regards,
Katalin Takacs
Anonymous
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Who are you Katalin from Graphisoft?
You are all over the place. GS finally listens to it's ow forum?
Nice.
Rakela Raul
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we already like Katalin !!
Who are you Katalin from Graphisoft?
You are all over the place. GS finally listens to it's ow forum?
Nice.
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sarahric
Contributor
great! can't wait!
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
Katalin Takacs
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Thanks, guys!
Actually I am the one who will help your community to get much attention and influence.
Katalin Takacs
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
sarahric wrote:
I'm exporting and checking a BIMx model on my desktop with a large monitor and it gives me motion sickness moving around the model. It would be less so if I the program did not operate in full screen. Can the window be minimised/resized?
Just to give you a bit of a hope until this feature is implemented:
I remember the first time I had a similar experience. It was with one of the first First Person Shooter games on pc. It was called Wolfenstein. There you are running around killing Nazis in World War II or something, and the camera shows what you are seeing. After playing for a while I got this horrible motion sickness. But the funny thing is that after a while one gets used to it and it just goes away. You just get used to things and spaces shifting so fast that it does not make you sick anymore. I don't know how much time but it definitely went away and didn"t bother me any more.
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sarahric
Contributor
Thanks for the tip laszlonagy.
I am a little prone to motion sickness. I have played a few first person shooter games, more on playstation, where the reaction time would be a bit slower . I'm going to turn down the sensitivity on my mouse for a bit and maybe I'll get to use a laptop instead, but it would be good if I didn't have to do this, and make and view the model all on my pc.
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
Stress Co_
Advisor
Does sitting further away from your screen help?
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Anonymous
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try to change the FOV. The more wide angle camera the more it makes you sick. Use more natural FOV comparable to the 50mm on the 35 mm camera. Around 60 degrees. It should work better on the widescreen.