3D glasses effect

[Craazhy]

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but after watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 3D (could be advertised on the slogan "Biggest Regret of the Year") I had a massive migraine, and moderate pain in the eyes. I do wear vision stabilizing glasses underneath the 3D glasses, so perhaps that may have something to do with it. So if you have or have not experienced, clarify whether or not you also wear vision related glasses.

Then again, maybe it was the flat acting and the clumsy, hack-and-slash writing.

 

[MisterShine]

I'm more inclined to think it was just the movie

Back to seriousness: I too wear glasses and get headaches after watching 3d for too long and it's a pretty common criticism of the new dimension that headaches occur too often. For my 3ds I got wicked headaches the first few times I played with the slider up, but after that I got used to it. So I guess it's just something your eyes need to get used to? Or try just not wearing your glasses next time you see a movie.

 

[Camaranth]

I too wear glasses and I don't have the option of taking them off to see a movie (unless I want the movie to look like it's a greetings card from fuzzy land) so I know exactly what you mean.

It may have something to do with how everything fits, I went to an Imax special and the guy at the door gave me a special set of 3D glasses which were a little bigger so they didn't sit on the top of my frames and weigh everything down on the bridge of my nose. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to keep them (no-one was) and good luck trying to get the local cinema to splurge on those. So my suggestion is next time you see a 3D movie try balancing the 3D set a little differently or do what I do, readjust them constantly and take them off for a few seconds during a visually unimpressive scene, doesn't prevent the headache but does lessen it somewhat, especially for a long movie.

Alternatively try contacts.

 

[Nieroshai]

I think it varies by person, because I've never had side effects from 3D but my fiancee gets nauseous from it.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

3d in general gives Migraines

 

[Smooth Operator]

Most people get headaches after an hour or so, I didn't yet but I could just feel the eye muscle strain as they were trying to piece together a proper picture from that 3D mess.

The main problem I find is that they overdo it, our eyes are placed 2 inches apart but 3D films are made with cameras 5 or 10 feet apart so the images are completely off wack, not to mention the if 3D is a post production bodge job - absolute horse shite.
It's like someone using Tabasco sauce for the first time, "now remember just a tiny drop... omg you put it all over the plate, well good luck enjoying that"

 

[s0m3th1ng]

All 3d cinema has this weird silvery outline around the objects that are supposed to be 3d. I just can't enjoy them.

 

[Lionsfan]

I don't like 3D, besides the Headaches I've yet to see a movie I could actually stand to wear the stupid glasses for the hour and a half or so. But yeah, if I wear 3D glasses I tend to get headaches, and no I don't wear any type of glasses normally