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Taking a break before motion sickness ruins it is the right thing to do. You may need to mess with your headset's settings to get it all good. Remember that temperature and food can affect how your time in VR is, so eat light meals and don't overdo it. Ginseng? I think is also popular.

When you're actually working on making your own avatar, the advice I give everyone is pick a base word. Cat, dog, robot, lizard, bird, zombie, slut, whatever. As long as you have that word, it makes it much easier to find a base body to build outwards from. Furries are less liked but that's more of a trial by fire thing. You're going to get murdered if you're a shiba, but if you're a nanachi you'll get shit from some NAs and pass.

Your first avatar shouldn't expected to be a permanent part of you. Most people will start with something public and eventually grow outwards from there. It happens and it's not really weird at all. Pic related, the first public avatar I used.