Vehicle Motion Cues

I have no idea how something like this is ideated, then prototyped, then validated, but it does work wonders for me, and I am so grateful it exists.

There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago, where I discovered KineStop which is an app that does the same on Android. I've only tried it a few times but it has worked every time.

Once this was announced a few years back, I was very skeptical that a few dots on the screen would be all that's needed to help me.

And yet, apparently it was.

It's not perfect, but the dots help me to go from instantly feeling sick to lasting 30-40 minutes before I have to stop looking at the screen.

A related post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530

Sharing this here in case anyone wants to check out the discussion there and see how it looks in the Verge's short review.

I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection.

Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of my walk afterwards, when I was using the phone.

I get the impression there are much more sophisticated signals and classification methods to determine whether someone is in a vehicle or not, beyond the accelerometers.

I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks!

This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-motion-setti...

Any reason this doesn’t work in CarPlay?

There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid:

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness

I use this a lot on my MacBook Air when working in cabs. It’s beautiful and works well for me

My Android phone has this too (Vivo). Maybe they all do?

It wasn't well explained what it was for though, I discovered it while messing with the settings and thought it was just a cool random feature to visualize motion. I'm just now learning it's for motion sickness.

This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!

This has been reposted here several times in the last few weeks, but it is a very neat feature. I find myself getting quite motion sick on the bus if I look at my phone, but these dots help me at least check messages here and there without immediately feeling like I'm going to throw up.

This is an easy enable with "Automatic Detection". Are there any other phone "Accessibility" options that are useful to everyone?

One of the best and most clever "hidden" features. Very Apple.

I never get nauseous looking at my phone in an Uber anymore. My wife can barely handle looking at a screen in a car and this feature allows her to work with no issue.

Works surprisingly well, had a super sensitive passenger in the car the other day and zero signs of nausea.

n=1, but it works great for me!

The question I have is whether a phone with motion cues causes less nausea than no phone at all in a window-less boat.

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