Oculus gives Rift games a ‘barf-o-meter’ rating

Some ski slopes are more dangerous than others, which is why mountain operators use designations like “black diamond.” Now, virtual reality is getting something similar.

Oculus VR held a press event early this week as part of the Game Developers Conference, and the company revealed that it has a system in place to determine the comfort level of a VR game. The Facebook subsidiary launches the Rift on March 28, and it showed off around two dozen games that come in three varieties: comfortable, moderate, and intense. In the documentation provided that Oculus VR provided to GamesBeat, each of these levels had an accompanying symbol to further illustrate the dangers using the headset poses to someone who can get motion sickness in simulations.