Filmmaker Says Human Brain Not Suited for 3D

[KEM10]

As someone who gets chronic headaches, 3D movies don't bother me.
The problem with having this fad pass is that producers and some inventors would just take it as the public passing on 3D and not this version of 3D. However, if too many people keep this 3D going, then the innovation will be limited because the public is so enthralled with this idea. You can't win.

 

[blackguard89]

Well I know that those red and green/blue glasses are not used so much anymore, but that was my first experience...and booooy...after 10 minutes I got a massive headache.I can see how passing to one colour 3D galsses solved one of the problems, but I still feel like my eyes are in overdrive when watching a 3D movie nowdays
I for one support the man's idea.Holographic images should be the way to a true 3D experience.

 

[Numachuka]

We should just skip right to that holographic images stuff. I want my holodeck damnit!

Look up vocaloid 3d concert...

We have the tech already...

I repeat, I want my holodeck damnit. I know the tech is there, but actually getting it done is a different story. Just like we have the tech to send a man to mars, doesn't mean we are there yet.

Right, but let's face it, we have the tech to raise our lifespans twofold, have flying cars, and make world peice.

The issue is that we get lazy, people start acting like dicks, or just act stupid and it hinders it.

I don't think technology will give us world peace.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Isn't Real Life 3-D?

Yeah I know, I'm being facetious. That hologram idea sounds cool though.

 

[jp201]

Isn't Real Life 3-D?

Yeah I know, I'm being facetious. That hologram idea sounds cool though.

didn't read the article did you?


Also have experienced a similar issue watching a movie in 3d before. Had a really bad headache.

 

[jp201]

We should just skip right to that holographic images stuff. I want my holodeck damnit!

Look up vocaloid 3d concert...

We have the tech already...

I repeat, I want my holodeck damnit. I know the tech is there, but actually getting it done is a different story. Just like we have the tech to send a man to mars, doesn't mean we are there yet.

Right, but let's face it, we have the tech to raise our lifespans twofold, have flying cars, and make world peice.

The issue is that we get lazy, people start acting like dicks, or just act stupid and it hinders it.

I don't think technology will give us world peace.

he said world peice or actually piece which means technology will break world into pieces destroying us all.

 

[teknoarcanist]

I don't personally anyone who genuinely likes or prefers '3D' movies. Any time my friends and I go to see one, it's because the 2D version isn't being shown. Which is really just equivalent to bending over so the the movie studios can fuck the extra five bucks out of us, when you think about it. But what are ya gonna do?

Answer: complain to the internet!

 

[Electrogecko]

"So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another,"

I'm no optometrist, but this quote strikes me as incorrect. The fact that all the images are actually on the same plane on a 3d display seems to be irrelevent since our brain interprets it in the same way it has for thousands of years....

It seems to me that these complaints can be applied to a theatre performance. Unless someone can explain how looking at a 3d display is any different than looking out a window for your eyes and brain, I'm all ears.

 

[Thedayrecker]

The only movie I saw in 3D was Jackass 3D, and it was extremely hard to focus on the screen.

It might have been because I was blazed, but the 3D didn't help.

 

[squid5580]

That's exactly what was happening to me while watching Pirhana 3D. My friend got both headache and eyestrain. I only had a minor eyestrain.

Yeah I have seen a few now (Pirhana was my first though) and I left with eyestrain every time. I will never invest in a 3D tv or anything like that. Thats for sure.

 

[zehydra]

I've never had this problem. I've never gotten a headache from 3d, I've never gotten bad eyestrain from 3d (other than just from watching a screen, which happens anyway!)

I enjoy my 3d, and I hope Roger Ebert realizes this problem doesn't affect all of us.

 

[Somebloke]

...It seems to me that these complaints can be applied to a theatre performance. Unless someone can explain how looking at a 3d display is any different than looking out a window for your eyes and brain, I'm all ears.

The actual display is still 2D and its distance from you is fixed. Due to the stereoscopic offsets, however, an object may appear at another distance to you and if your attention goes to that object, your eyes (lenses) will try to refocus to that distance, to a spot at which there is, of course, nothing but thin air.

 

[e102ewan]

I agree with what this guy is saying, but a bigger issue I find is that 3d films just don't look better than 2d. Surely this is enough reason on its own not to invest in them.

 

[Geekosaurus]

They need to hurry up and figure out how to make virtual reality work, or how to beam images right into our heads, so all this 3D bullshit goes away. I've not liked it from the start, and I still don't like it.

 

[LTK_70]

Good point on the convergence issue. I hadn't really thought of it like that. I guess the real issue to whether a film looks like 3D is the focus, so as a filmmaker, it's all you have to worry about. But your eyes have, indeed, evolved over millions of years to merge focus and convergence into one motor program. This makes it simply impossible to consciously seperate focus and convergence. No wonder it gives you headaches.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Can we stop this 3D bollocks now please? I hate to watch 3D movies, they just feel so... Off.. Colors are amazing granted, but 3D doesn't add anything to the scenery that couldn't be shown with 2D and imagination. 3D gaming and movies don't feel more real, quite the contrast in my opinion.

Well soon as movie companies start to get sued over eye-damage and whatnot they'll realize.

 

[Wolfram23]

Never thought of it that way. I guess he has a point, however, not everyone is affected by this. I have watched a handful of movies in 3D and never had the slightest discomfort and as far as I know neither has any of my friends.

 

[pigmypython]

We should just skip right to that holographic images stuff. I want my holodeck damnit!

Just like the internet, if there was holodeck technology it would primarily be used for porn and sex...not that it is a bad thing of course, most of my hard drive is packed with it...just saying.

 

[The Human Torch]

I watched Avatar in 3D, eyes hurt like nothing else afterwards.