This free app helps you avoid car sickness when traveling by car. Here’s how it works

Many people suffer from motion sickness, a condition that causes dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and headaches when traveling by car or other means of transportation. The problem increases if we use our cell phone. in a moving vehicle, which should not be done if you experience this uncomfortable problem.

Just a few months ago, Apple presented a function to reduce the feeling of dizziness when using the mobile phone in the car by displaying animated dots on the edges of the screen, a novelty that has generated a lot of interest. Although on Android we do not have a native function for this purpose, there is an application that has exactly the same objective.

The app reduces motion sickness by drawing an artificial horizon on the mobile

As we read in Android Authority, KineStop is an Android app that can be indispensable for those who suffer from motion sickness. The purpose of the app is reduce motion sickness when using your cell phonewhich it achieves by drawing an artificial horizon and synchronizing it with the movement of the vehicle.

Studies related to this disorder suggest that motion sickness is due to a sensory conflict between what a person sees and what they feel in a moving vehicle. By creating a virtual horizon, KineStop synchronizes our sense of hearing with that of sight and reduces the feeling of vertigo.

To start using KineStop, we will have to accept the authorization ‘Show above other appssince the app was designed to display information above the apps we are using at any given time.

The operation of the application is very simple: Just press the ‘Play’ button that we find in the lower right corner of the application and we will see some dots appear on the screen. As you can see, these dots follow the movement of the mobile in any application we use.

One of the most interesting features of KineStop is the ability to configure the application to start automatically by detecting that we are in a moving vehicle, which requires us to authorize access to our physical activity.

The application is available completely freeeven if there is a purchase in the application of 2.89 dollars that allows us to unlock the possibility of using different themes that replace the points with other elements. The application includes themes such as “Dinosaurs”, “Animals”, “Space” or “Ice Cream”, among others.

Via | Android Authority

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