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Posted July 25, 2012
I've seen Titanic and The Avengers in IMAX 3D. I wear glasses, but they don't seem to bother me. I don't go to the cinema much, but the IMAX sound was highly enjoyable. I don't like gimmicky 3D effects, or 3D just for the heck of it. Those two movies weren't like that at all.

I highly recommend arriving early enough to sit in the very middle seats of the very middle row for best 3D effects.
Posted July 25, 2012
My eyes dont allow me to see 3d. it looks red and blue and there is no visable 3d anywhere.
Posted July 25, 2012
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SimonG: Do you have a colour vision problem, as in "greenblindness"? That could be the issue.
No, I don't have any colour vision problems. My only problem is Strabismus on my left eye, but it's interior, you can't see it clearly. It can't fixed, unless someone cut off my eyeball, that is.
Posted July 25, 2012
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qazx: My eyes dont allow me to see 3d. it looks red and blue and there is no visable 3d anywhere.
3D is quite peculiar. Both eyes have to be able to work together to see in 3D. But your issue isn't strange; it's actually kinda common!

My barber's situation is downright weird. She has 20/20 vision, but one eye is near-sighted and the other is far-sighted. So her focus is constantly shifting between the "close" 3D objects and the "far" 3D objects.
Posted July 25, 2012
I never had headaches or other health issues from the 3D in theaters, I simply don't see the "eye-popping" effects very well if at all. All the glasses do is clear things up, so I might as well be watching traditional film. The only time it ever worked was at Disney World, Epcot Center with a couple of 3D films, but was years ago.

For me, I have trouble focusing on a spot with both eyes at once, I either look at something with one eye or the other... as a result I tend to have poor depth perception.. usually can not catch objects thrown at me either. I managed to compensate, but not enough to get a rise out of 3D movies.

Now I did see the 3D version of Prometheus, I might as well have saved the money, but I went with friends. I did become nauseated and nearly pass out, but it was due to the medical pod scene. :)
Posted July 25, 2012
I'm sick to death of 3D, I have a lazy left eye that prevents me from properly seeing 3D even if I wanted to, and because of this I get very little choice in session times when I want to see a movie anymore.
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Posted July 25, 2012
It depends on the type of 3D used. The style used for the 3DS works well enough for me, except for certain Konami games where I see terrible ghosting.

The red/blue glasses version used with older movies doesn't work so well as the colours get washed out, it makes watching that style rather annoying to say the least.

The style used for Avatar at the cinema I went to, was more akin to the old parallax scrolling/layering effects in old Amiga games. That's to say, it worked great in one or two scenes but looked horribly flat in the others. The fact that it had Japanese subtitles imposed on the foremost layer certainly didn't help.

The only pain I suffer from due to such 3D films is that caused by wearing the glasses for extended periods; they make my ears and nose hurt for a bit.
Posted July 25, 2012
I can see the 3D alright. However, it rarely brings anything worthy to the experience, and generally, I stop even noticing it after about 5 minutes. After that, I'm just annoyed at having to wear the stupid glasses. Every time I've done so (at long intervals), I've thought to myself "Oh, right. That's why it's been so long since I went to see a movie in 3D". As a result, I've stopped going to 3D screenings of movies altogether.

Another issue with 3D movies is subtitles. Probably only other Scandinavians will know about this, because English speakers don't use them for Hollywood movies (which are generally the only ones that come in 3D), and most of the rest of the world dubs them into their own language. In Scandinavia, only movies targeted at children are dubbed.

Allow me to explain. In 3D movies here, the subtitles are also subject to the 3D effect, so they seem to float about a meter in front of the screen (depending on the size of the screen, of course). However, when something in the foreground of the picture is closer to the camera than the distance the subtitles are set at, you get a weird spatial effect which really screws up your eyes. They refuse to focus on the subtitles because they can't figure out how far away they are. This is because they are superimposed "in front of" something that is actually closer to you than they are.
Posted July 25, 2012
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Wishbone: I can see the 3D alright. However, it rarely brings anything worthy to the experience, and generally, I stop even noticing it after about 5 minutes. After that, I'm just annoyed at having to wear the stupid glasses. Every time I've done so (at long intervals), I've thought to myself "Oh, right. That's why it's been so long since I went to see a movie in 3D". As a result, I've stopped going to 3D screenings of movies altogether.

Another issue with 3D movies is subtitles. Probably only other Scandinavians will know about this, because English speakers don't use them for Hollywood movies (which are generally the only ones that come in 3D), and most of the rest of the world dubs them into their own language. In Scandinavia, only movies targeted at children are dubbed.

Allow me to explain. In 3D movies here, the subtitles are also subject to the 3D effect, so they seem to float about a meter in front of the screen (depending on the size of the screen, of course). However, when something in the foreground of the picture is closer to the camera than the distance the subtitles are set at, you get a weird spatial effect which really screws up your eyes. They refuse to focus on the subtitles because they can't figure out how far away they are. This is because they are superimposed "in front of" something that is actually closer to you than they are.
Oh good lord, just thinking about that makes my eyes hurt.
Posted July 25, 2012
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GraveTone: No, I don't have any colour vision problems. My only problem is Strabismus on my left eye, but it's interior, you can't see it clearly. It can't fixed, unless someone cut off my eyeball, that is.
That would likely be why it's causing you the headaches. There are a few issues with 3D, the main one being that the eye is trying to focus on a point that is further away than the muscles are believing they should be focusing on. I suspect (unqualified down the pub guy level of information) that your misalignment is making that stress greater, which would cause the issue.

If that is the case, then there may be help at hand. The more you view 3D, the more accustomed your eye muscles get to the experience, and they start to be happy to disassociate the focus with the position of the eye muscle. It always worried me that this may have greater implications, but so far there's been no proof of it.

In short. I think that if you watch a lot more 3d, you'll start to get over your headaches, but I'm not a doctor.
Post edited July 25, 2012 by wpegg
Posted July 25, 2012
I can't see 3D because I have Strabismus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus

Even with eye muscle surgery as a kid, which straightened them out for the most part, the brain never repaired that connection or some crap like that. So I have normal peripheral vision and I can, at will, switch which eye I'm 'seeing' out of, but 3D has been a no-go since birth. No biggie, though I always did suck at baseball. From the responses in this thread, it doesn't sound like I'm missing much at the thea-ter/tre.
Posted July 25, 2012
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That maybe a good idea, but the pain and nausea are too much. It's more painful than hangover, even meds don't work on me. Not to mention the money spend on a movie in 3D. I'd rather wait for the movie to be released on DVD.
Posted July 25, 2012
I'm steroblind, i don't use both eyes to see equally, my left eye does all the heavy lifting, the right one is just a widescreen expansion, so i don't care for 3D.
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Wishbone: Allow me to explain. In 3D movies here, the subtitles are also subject to the 3D effect, so they seem to float about a meter in front of the screen (depending on the size of the screen, of course). However, when something in the foreground of the picture is closer to the camera than the distance the subtitles are set at, you get a weird spatial effect which really screws up your eyes. They refuse to focus on the subtitles because they can't figure out how far away they are. This is because they are superimposed "in front of" something that is actually closer to you than they are.
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Thunderstone: Oh good lord, just thinking about that makes my eyes hurt.
Yeah, it's a situation that can't actually happen in normal 3D space. It's only possible because the 3D in movies is made up of separate 2D images, and the subtitles are added to each image with a fixed position regardless of what the image actually shows.
Posted July 25, 2012
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F1ach: Only good looking 3D movie I have seen yet is Avatar. Any others I have seen, wern't worth wearing the glasses for.
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keeveek: True. When it comes to 3D technology, nothing better than Avatar was ever released.
Some people say Resident Evil Afterlife was as good in 3D as Avatar. I haven't watched it myself, though.
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