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Dale A
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Dale A asked in HealthOptical · 1 decade ago

Why can't I see 3-d Movies (in 3-d)?

I recently took a trip to Disneyland. They have all kinds of 3-d movies there (similar kind of thing to the new popular 3-d movies you get in theaters). Prior to this trip, I'd noticed that I wasn't able to see the 'at home' 3-d movies that you can get.

I just figured that the 'at-home' version wasn't as good as what you'd get in the theaters. I've never actually seen an 'in the movie theater' version.

Anyways, on this trip, I went in to about 5 or 6 different '3d' movies, and it was always the same, with multiple sets of glasses.

It was like I was getting a 'bleed through' effect on the opposite channel (didn't look much different with/without the glasses on).

Every so often, it would 'pop' in to focus, and I could see everything the way it was supposed to be, but then it would go again, and I wouldn't be able to see it anymore. It helped it I kind of turned my head to one side.

I know I *used* to be able to see 3-d movies (like 14 years ago when I first went to one), but I can't any more.

I know that the glasses at the disney movies are polarizers at 90 degrees to each other (so presumably the left and right video channels are projected through a similarly oriented polarizer, and the glasses block out what you shouldn't see with that eye).

It makes me wonder if their might be something a little weird going on with my eyes (I was thinking an increased directional orientation in some of the layers of the eye might do it...)

Thoughts?

Update:

Would that do it (not having good/equal vision in both eyes)?

Given the way that the 3-d movies work (at least the way I infer that they work based on an analysis of the glasses), wouldn't you still only see the left channel with the left eye, and the right channel with the right eye, unless you were putting some kind of extra polarizer in the way?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I would guess it is less complicated than that. If your vision is not good in one eye, that would be an obvious reason. However you could be have different amounts of far sightedness. You can accommodate to see with either eye but you can't focus them both at the same time. Another possibility is that you have some misallignment of your eyes.

    Source(s): Optometrist
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    3-D is like a pentium computer, old tech with a new spin on it and still boring. I'm still waiting for a virtual movie where you can take part in a car chase or cool shoot out like in the movies Matrix or Heat.

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