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Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by JeffJenkins on Thursday February 11, 2010 @09:38AM (#1117677)
I have Amblyopia -- an eye condition where the image from one eye is partially suppressed by the brain. I'd been wondering what a 3D movie would do to me for a while since parallax doesn't work when you brain is processing the images from each eye as separate. It turns out that the answer is not much of anything, but I still have to wear the glasses to filter out the second image.

Although I'm sure it will be nice for some people, I'm personally hoping that this doesn't catch on. It's pretty annoying to pay extra and have to wear special glasses (on top of my real glasses) when I'm physically incapable of benefiting from them.

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Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by aarongough on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:31AM (#1117945)
Similar situation here. I was born with one eye only having about 10% of the nerves that it was supposed to, and the ones I have are only connected to the peripheral areas of the retina.

I've never been excited about 3D movies or games because they simply do not work for me, which was always a source of disappointment when I was a kid.

Personally I really can't see it catching on... Who wants to have to wear special glasses while sitting in their house watching TV?

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