Showing posts with label Motion After Effect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motion After Effect. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Guitar Hero Eye Syndrome

I'm sure I've rattled on about Guitar Hero far more than I should have recently, but I have to know if other people suffer from the symptom I've named Guitar Hero Eye Syndrome.

After a session of Guitar Hero your brain seems to be confused when an object you look at doesn't scroll rapidly downwards like the fret board on Guitar Hero.

As soon as you finish playing look at a specific spot on the carpet and miraculously it will come alive! Warping and twisting around for a good 30 seconds or so. The first time this happened to me I found it quite strange and disorientating, it was like I'd been dropped into the 1960s. I was overcome by the urge to go out and purchase the biggest bong I could find, a purple sofa, maybe a Volkswagen camper van and some Doors vinyl LPs.

Those feelings mostly passed but I've never heard other people mention it before. Does this happen to you?

UPDATE:
I've since discovered that this symptom has a proper name...

Source: Wikipedia

The motion after-effect (MAE) is a visual illusion experienced after viewing a moving visual stimulus for a time (milliseconds to minutes) with stationary eyes, and then fixating a stationary stimulus. The stationary stimulus appears to move in the opposite direction to the original (physically moving) stimulus. The motion aftereffect is believed to be the result of motion adaptation.

For example, if one looks at a waterfall for about a minute and then looks at the stationary rocks at the side of the waterfall, these rocks appear to be moving upwards slightly. The illusory upwards movement is the motion aftereffect. This particular motion aftereffect is also known as the waterfall illusion.

Anyone want to buy a camper van? Let me know on the GAMEOV3R Forum