wkearney99
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This is a clever idea, if a bit hideous looking (but less hideous than being motion sick and throwing up, I suppose!)
Frankly, I don't believe claims that are made without evidence. The 95% success rate was made by the folks that patented the "boarding glasses" over 10 years ago. I don't think that I've ever seen the actual studies that support it.
They are right in that motion sickness is usually caused (not all the time) by the brains inability to integrate mismatching inputs. Your inner ear is telling you one thing while your visual system is telling you another. There are some folks that will get motion sick simply because of over stimulation of the inner ear.
The idea is that the glasses give you an artificial horizon and thereby the motion you are experiencing is matching your visual experience. All well and good, but if that was 95% effective, then anyone on your boat, car, or plane would simply need to be able to sit on the flybridge or pilothouse to get the visual view of the horizon to be "cured" of motion sickness. Furthermore, the claim is that they only need to do that for 10-15 minutes and then they won't get motion sick.
However, the company has a website and makes nifty YouTube videos, so it HAS to be true. Right?
The idea is that the glasses give you an artificial horizon and thereby the motion you are experiencing is matching your visual experience. All well and good, but if that was 95% effective, then anyone on your boat, car, or plane would simply need to be able to sit on the flybridge or pilothouse to get the visual view of the horizon to be "cured" of motion sickness.
However, the company has a website and makes nifty YouTube videos, so it HAS to be true. Right?
I wonder if motion sickness is partially psychosomatic, if that’s the right word. Basically, if you THINK you are going to get seasick, you will get seasick.
Any studies on that David?
AND they'd need to do nothing other than looking out at the horizon. One point of these is to allow doing OTHER activities.
Night time and overcast/fog conditions wouldn't allow for it either. Or being below.
And forum comments likewise?
If they work for folks, great! I've no stake in it, just thought it looks like a clever idea. One that I could see working in the limited number of situations where either myself or others aboard might need to be in situations where going above isn't always an option.
I ordered a pair. Will report back, if I ever go anywhere. [emoji30]
I’m supposed to go to the Bahamas April-May so that will be a good test going across.
My own feeling, is that these are simply another in a long line of snake oil gadgets. They may sell a bunch and make some money before they are either shut down or go out of business. We've seen plenty of those in the US over the years. However, I am wrong a lot and if they are effective, it could be a boon to TF members who have guests that get motion sick. So maybe some TF members can buy them and and test them out on motion sick passengers and report back?
Odd how Seetroen,complete with the Chevron insignia, morphs into car brand Citroen, which uses the Citroen insignia on its cars. Is the product really linked to Citroen cars? If not,that`s BS advertising and the product is probably likewise.
It may not be, but "Seetroen" morphing into Citroen looks like a non genuine product knockoff to me, and I`m a happy serial owner of another brand from within the PSA stable.It's not "BS", it's "DS". As one who had to ride in the back seat of his lead-footed father's Citroen DS 21 Pallas as a kid, I'm surprised Citroen didn't come out with these sooner...
It's one thing to look at the horizon and overcome sea sickness. However, things like looking at screens and reading books can also exacerbate motion sickness because the motion of the reading material held in your hands does not match the cues you are feeling in your inner ear. Not sure how these glasses would help in the situation of someone reading something while in a moving vehicle.