As an epileptic, let me do say that the viewer has caused "auras" (sort of a buzzing in my head that warns me of an impending seizure) and has caused migraines, particularly due to the GL rendering area getting "squashed" by the sidebar. It's also very disorienting to people.
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 05:55 -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > Not to disagree with the entirety of your rant, but this bit seems > completely off the wall. > > On 2010-03-23, at 21:39, Jonathan Irvin wrote: > > Not to be rude, but if people are getting vertigo, epilepsy, etc. > > from SL...viewer 2.0 isn't going to make a difference. Viewer 1.23 > > would have the same effect. Maybe not in your coveted sidebar, but > > it SL in general. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. This > > is common knowledge. > > It is? I'd never heard of it before. I don't get vertigo from SL. I do > get it from some games, like Descent, and I was getting it from the > sudden uncontrolled slewing of the viewport in the 2.0 viewer. But not > SL. > > > LCD monitors nowadays will cause those effects *regardless* of the > > application running, so please don't make someone else's illness as > > your point in voicing your opinions. > > Um, what? Cite please. > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
