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The "Reduce Motion" turns the parallax animation off.

I fail to see how these features could cause motion sickness, unless one is staring at the screen and moving the screen about and opening and closing apps/folders every few seconds for ages.
 
Bungle73 said:
The "Reduce Motion" turns the parallax animation off.
I fail to see how these features could cause motion sickness, unless one is staring at the screen and moving the screen about and opening and closing apps/folders every few seconds for ages.
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This explanation from the 9 page thread on Apple's forums might help:
Of course this is a real issue, and I'm not at all surprised it exists, given how psychedelic things look even in some of Apple's press photos. Visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) and visual stress (http://www.lucid-research.com/visualstress.htm) have become very active fields of research because of the implications in applications ranging from (FPS) video games to jet and airline pilot training through alleviating reading problems in dyslexics and enjoying contemporary art. And it happens to be one of my fields of research.

What IS surprising is that Apple neither foresaw it nor identified the issue from beta tester feedback (or worse, failed to take that seriously). I can understand an industrial designer like Ive more used to working on physical objects could be unaware of the effects visual displays can have on people, especially if they move, but surely he must have had computer graphics experts in his team...

This is a health issue comparable to epileptic attacks caused by certain kinds of flicker, first observed on a large scale because of a now infamous episode on Japanese TV. I think it's serious enough for Apple to provide EITHER a very rapid update that allows to disable animations or reduce their duration significantly (something I think should be configurable anyway, at least after an initial hour or so of having "admired" them ...) OR a well documented way to downgrade back to 6.1x (and sign that release again, of course).

In the meantime, the symptoms are aggravated by certain kinds of colour contrast. Without going into too much detail, it ought to help to select a very drab (grayish or with a slight tint of a colour you perceive as soothing) background, to reduce brightness and/or contrast, turn off the parallax bling and experiment with inverse video mode. These symptoms are accumulated, meaning each obnoxious stimulus will aggravate matters, and so anything you can do to reduce/remove them will be beneficial. That also means that "just don't look" when those animations happen should be a reasonable avoidance strategy ... and if indeed it is, it might be the perfect argument to convince Apple that their eye "candy" really is as bad as classical candy is for the teeth.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5322295?start=120&tstart=0
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Bungle73 said:
The "Reduce Motion" turns the parallax animation off.

I fail to see how these features could cause motion sickness, unless one is staring at the screen and moving the screen about and opening and closing apps/folders every few seconds for ages.
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Yup. Sounds like the usual media attempt to whip up a non story...
 
Motion sickness is a real thing, and people do get it from playing computer games, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't get it from this too.
 
Crispy said:
Motion sickness is a real thing, and people do get it from playing computer games, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't get it from this too.
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I can't find it at the mo but there was a great article a few years back which pointed out that it's bollox that you can get it from playing video games. It's just another version of receptiongate, the media love a good tech scare/controversy story and after the finger print hack didn't appear to cause two weeks of front page news they're moving on to this.
 
Crispy said:
Motion sickness is a real thing, and people do get it from playing computer games, so there's no reason to think they wouldn't get it from this too.
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But that's sitting in front a computer screen with moving images for hours, this is an animation that only happens when you click on an icon and only lasts for about a second.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
I can't find it at the mo but there was a great article a few years back which pointed out that it's bollox that you can get it from playing video games. It's just another version of receptiongate, the media love a good tech scare/controversy story and after the finger print hack didn't appear to cause two weeks of front page news they're moving on to this.
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It's not bollocks. I've met people who get it. The concept is very simple - your sense of motion is an integration of vision and inner-ear balance. When the two don't agree, it can cause an unpleasant sensation. Some people are particularly sensitive.
 
Bungle73 said:
But that's sitting in front a computer screen with moving images for hours, this is an animation that only happens when you click on an icon and only lasts for about a second.
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Do you think all the people posting up on Apple's site are making it up then?
 
It's obvious people are using the wrong sort of looking, just like antennagate disciples must learn to adapt if they wanna be on the bleeding-edge of technology. :rolleyes:
 
Just threatened to leave TMobile.

Got offered a free 5s 16gig on 4G, with 20 gig of data/month and unlimited calls and txts, plus tethering, all for the same as I was currently paying.

Go on then :D
 
editor said:
What are you currently paying and how long is the new contract for?
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2 year contract and I'll be paying £32.50/month. I think the deal I'm getting is usually something like £50/month.

The 2 year bit is annoying but, fuckit, having the fast 4G plus tethering will save me literally hundreds of pounds a year in hotel wifi access fees.
 
RedDragon said:
That's such a good deal it makes me wanna put you on ignore. :D
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I think's it's because I've been with them for something like 8 years and have always been on a reasonably high tariff due to work demands. I've also done the sound at a few of their staff training conferences, so know how paranoid they are about losing long term customers and thus what to say. Threaten to leave, if you don't get a good deal offered at that point ask to speak to a senior member of the customer retention team, et voila :D
 
I was also imagining you got through to a sales person who thought "This guy wants to leave, we'll soon see about that" :D
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I think's it's because I've been with them for something like 8 years and have always been on a reasonably high tariff due to work demands. I've also done the sound at a few of their staff training conferences, so know how paranoid they are about losing long term customers and thus what to say. Threaten to leave, if you don't get a good deal offered at that point ask to speak to a senior member of the customer retention team, et voila :D
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I tried that exact thing with 02 after being with them for 13 years. They couldn't beat my offer from 3 and didn't even try. So long! :rolleyes:
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Just threatened to leave TMobile.

Got offered a free 5s 16gig on 4G, with 20 gig of data/month and unlimited calls and txts, plus tethering, all for the same as I was currently paying.

Go on then :D
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Bloody hell! I didn't think networks actually fell for that shit these days..!!
 
And no one seems to have noticed this, for the people who were moaning about it before, one can now put the Newsstand icon into a folder.
 
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