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    Feeling Sick After Kinect Play

    Hey everyone, after playing with my Kinect for a little while I start to feel a little sick and my head started to hurt for whatever reason and I think think that it's my Kinect that's causing it. Has anyone else with a Kinect experienced anything like this?

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    was it right after you ate? ..... otherwise it could be caused if your not in the best of shape and move around....

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    I swear I have some prototype Kinects that make it feel like your head is being microwaved.. Though maybe it's just a placebo effect? Though it doesn't happen to me with final Kinects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WTVR View Post
    Hey everyone, after playing with my Kinect for a little while I start to feel a little sick and my head started to hurt for whatever reason and I think think that it's my Kinect that's causing it. Has anyone else with a Kinect experienced anything like this?
    I find that with the Wii, especially when exercising energetically on EA Active. :-P

    Not to offend, but could the issue be related to your physical fitness?


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    The Kinect itself is not likely to be a direct cause of any sort of medical problem, but I would suspect over exertion in a short time frame to be a possible cause. Most people aren't exactly "in shape" let alone trained to handle something like a boxing match in terms of sudden, quick movements.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xenon.7 View Post
    I swear I have some prototype Kinects that make it feel like your head is being microwaved.. Though maybe it's just a placebo effect? Though it doesn't happen to me with final Kinects.
    Sounds like the same thing that's happening to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xenon.7 View Post
    I swear I have some prototype Kinects that make it feel like your head is being microwaved.. Though maybe it's just a placebo effect? Though it doesn't happen to me with final Kinects.
    The resolution was better in the prototypes, right? I would assume that means it pumps out even more of those tiny little spotlights.

    Maybe that was a real medical concern during testing? I never did see a good reason for down-scaling the resolution. We lost native finger-detection. :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alec View Post
    The resolution was better in the prototypes, right? I would assume that means it pumps out even more of those tiny little spotlights.

    Maybe that was a real medical concern during testing? I never did see a good reason for down-scaling the resolution. We lost native finger-detection. :(
    But its just IR dots getting bombarded onto you, thats nothing that would cause a headache.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LEo View Post
    But its just IR dots getting bombarded onto you, thats nothing that would cause a headache.
    I'm no doctor, but I guess it's impossible that an eye could pick up on that and interpret it incorrectly in order to cause such symptoms?

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