A study from UK charity The Eyecare Trust has revealed that six million Brits cannot use 3D technology due to problems with their vision. Dharmesh Patel, chairman of The Eyecare Trust, spoke to MCV and said,
“It’s more than you think, about 12 per cent have 3D vision problems and you’ll find a similar percentage worldwide.3D is appearing everywhere and there’s loads of people complaining that they can’t see it.”
“There will be people who have not attended an eye examination in years and are probably unaware they have a lazy eye or something like that.”
When we have discussed 3D in the past a number of comments have been made by TSA readers that they cannot use 3D due to vision problems. I am surprised the figure is as high as 12% as that will surely impact on sales of 3D TVs. You lose 12% of your market straight away but then consider a family where one member has vision problems – they are hardly going to fork out £2000 for a new TV that one person cannot watch.
Personally I am not convinced by 3D but I have a horrible feeling as soon as Killzone 3 comes out it will be time for a new telly. Sadly for gamers with vision problems 3D will have to wait until R2D2 style holographic projectors arrive.
Source: MCV
patch
Isn’t a 3D TV just a normal tv with double the refresh rate and a (relatively cheap) 3D receiver? Chances are once they ramp up production of high refresh rate panels, every TV you buy will be 3D ready. Just ’cause it says 3D on the set, doesn’t mean everything will be 3D, just as watching a HD set doesn’t make everything HD.
Tuffcub
Congrats again to google ads. – Laser Eye surgery!
Doodylicious
I’m one of the 12% that can’t see 3D and never will. From an early age I had a lazy eye which was operated on when I was 7. Just recently, the lazy eye turned outwards and had to have an operation to turn it back inwards at 30. However, my eyes are still not perfectly straight and I have about 20% vision in my left eye, which makes seeing anything 3D impossible. Red/Green don’t work due to one eye filtering more colour than the other one, and the polorized 3D glasses don’t work either.
It does get my down sometimes, due to not being able to experience what everyone else sees, but hey…that’s life! :-D
I’m still enjoying gaming in 2D.
Bilbo_bobbins
sorry to hear doody, you aint missing anything special anyway. i’m with you and doing the 3d thing
tinman9
Normal dimensions for me for a while until the technology gets “right”.
Also with 3D games you fine your eyes can’t relax on the game, and are zooming around all over the place.
Shakugan
Nah… i prefer HDTV.
Dexter17
I think I can see 3D… imagine what it would feel like if you splashed out on a new telly to find out that you couldn’t even see it.
hazelam
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anaglyph&aq=f
find a pair of red and blue glasses and try it out, but not for too long, trust me on that one.