Apple to Reduce Motion Sickness With Vehicle Motion Cues on iPhone

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced new accessibility features coming to its devices later this year, and one feature in particular that is likely to have widespread appeal among vehicle passengers is Vehicle Motion Cues, which aims to prevent motion sickness when looking at an iPhone or iPad.

According to Apple, research shows that motion sickness is commonly caused by a sensory conflict between what a person sees and what they feel, which can prevent some users from comfortably using iPhone or iPad while riding in a moving vehicle.

Vehicle Motion Cues are designed to avoid this sensory conflict with the use of visual elements on the display that indicate real-time changes in motion. Apple explains:

With Vehicle Motion Cues, animated dots on the edges of the screen represent changes in vehicle motion to help reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content. Using sensors built into iPhone and iPad, Vehicle Motion Cues recognises when a user is in a moving vehicle and responds accordingly. The feature can be set to show automatically on iPhone, or can be turned on and off in Control Center.

In addition to Vehicle Motion Cues, Apple is also set to introduce an eye tracking feature that will let users navigate their iPad and iPhone with just their eyes. It will also debut CarPlay voice control and new Music Haptics later this year. The latter uses the Taptic Engine in the iPhone to play taps, textures, and refined vibrations to the audio of the music, allowing users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music. The new features are expected to arrive as part of iOS 18, which is likely to be released in September.

Article Link: Apple to Reduce Motion Sickness With Vehicle Motion Cues on iPhone

 

[miguelcoma]

This has to be one of the things they learned during development of the car project. Glad to see they are shipping some of their ideas. Can’t wait to try this on the iPad.

 

[ignatius345]

Oh wow! I have *never* been able to look at a book or a screen in a moving car because of motion sickness. If they've actually found a way to counter that, that's actually huge.

 

[anakinfan8]

iOS 18 is gonna be one for the ages. That's insane.

 

[Razorpit]

This is great. Usually I'm the one driving and not affected by this, but when I'm a passenger I have a hard time doing much of anything on the phone. 🤮

And to top it off the older I get the worse my motion sickness gets. 😄

 

[dz5b609]

So I can drive and text without getting sick, THANKS APPLE.

 

[toobravetosave]

now you have no excuses left

stare at the screen 😈

 

[Newgoblin49]

Do you have an iPad Pro ?
The low response time of its LCD display induces motion sickness for me , I’m upgrading my M2 to M4 just because of that

This is great. Usually I'm the one driving and not affected by this, but when I'm a passenger I have a hard time doing much of anything on the phone. 🤮

And to top it off the older I get the worse my motion sickness gets.

 

[turbineseaplane]

One could always ... "look out the window" ... "listen to music" ... "talk to others in the car" ...

I don't know... "live life" and not stare at your bloody device every nano second?

Just an idea..

 

[eilavid]

Pretty cool!

 

[hybrid_x]

That's a neat idea.

I'm really sensitive to motion sickness. I once went on a motion-simulator ride and there must have been a few milliseconds of lag between the visuals and the motion, because I was really sick afterwards, for hours. It's what's kept me away from VR and AR experiences. I just can't do it.

 

[contacos]

Might be something for me. I have had reduced motion activated for years because the constant fade in and fade out effect when you flip between or close and open apps does my head in as well.

 

[kerplunknet]

I don’t understand why they will focus time and resources on this but not on fixing PWM in these OLED displays. The flickering is causing way more sick feeling than anything else. Please, Apple, stop using PWM

 

[vegetassj4]

If only they would reduce the sickness I get from all of these bugs. Especially the undeleted photos from years ago.....yikes!

Edit: you deleted it wrong!

 

[incidentallycheckout]

As someone that suffers from this, I welcome this if it actually works right.

 

[dz5b609]

One could always ... "look out the window" ... "listen to music" ... "talk to others in the car" ...

I don't know... "live life" and not stare at your bloody device every nano second?

Just an idea..

or just drive.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I don’t understand why they will focus time and resources on this but not on fixing PWM in these OLED displays. The flickering is causing way more sick feeling than anything else. Please, Apple, stop using PWM

Simple

This is a bean counting operation now and "fixing PWM" isn't a feature they can advertise and hopefully drive sales with.

Apple is not in the business of creating "the best products it can" anymore

People really need to internalize this fact

 

[incidentallycheckout]

I don’t understand why they will focus time and resources on this but not on fixing PWM in these OLED displays. The flickering is causing way more sick feeling than anything else. Please, Apple, stop using PWM

A lot of people suffer from motion sickness as well. Ideally, both should be fixed.

 

[turbineseaplane]

or just drive.

That too!
I didn't list that as I figured I'd immediately get shouted at with: "THIS IS FOR PASSENGERS! IM A SAFE DRIVER!"
😂

 

[toobravetosave]

I don’t understand why they will focus time and resources on this but not on fixing PWM in these OLED displays. The flickering is causing way more sick feeling than anything else. Please, Apple, stop using PWM

would turning off automatic brightness solve this?

 

[turbineseaplane]

This may shock you, but there are other people in the world besides you and a lot of them do suffer from motion sickness in moving cars when using their iPhone.

His/Her point is that PWM has been a real nuisance, if not out right show stopper, for many users for years and years

I think they are saying fix that too!

 

[foobarbaz]

One could always ... "look out the window" ... "listen to music" ... "talk to others in the car" ...

I don't know... "live life" and not stare at your bloody device every nano second?

So … staring out the window or listening to music is somehow considered "living", but staring at photos or watching a movie is not? Seems about the same to me.

There really isn't much "living" you can do while stuck in a car, IMO. Just pass the time until you get to the interesting part (probably the destination you're traveling to).

 

[incidentallycheckout]

His/Her point is that PWM has been a real nuisance for many users for years and years

I think they are saying fix that too!

I misread it if so. I think both should be fixed of course.

 

[TVreporter]

And here I thought it was just the price of RAM and storage that made people sick!

 

[ghanwani]

People get motion sickness looking at iPhone screens without even being in a car. Apple needs to get rid of technology like pwm and temporal dithering, not add even more crap to the mix.

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