Mon, Jul 12, 2010 | 14:21 BST
Report: 12% of Britons unable to see 3D
Another five minutes, another 3D story. Guess what? Loads of you can’t even see it.
According to research carried out by The Eyecare Trust, as much as 12 percent of the British population has eyes too wonky to see the effect properly.
“3-D technology relies on our eyes’ ability to work together as a co-ordinated team to achieve an accurate perception of depth,” said the eye care charity, as reported by Edge.
“However, more than one in ten of us (12%) has a visual impairment that means our brains are unable to correctly process the individual images that are transmitted to it via our left and right eyes.
“This leads to an inconsistency in viewing the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth) required to enjoy 3D films in all their glory.”
Whoops.
The industry at large is unperturbed, however, with Ubisoft claiming last week that the tech will be a standard in three years time, despite a recent survey showing that around 70 percent of Japanese consumers being put off the technology by the need for glasses.
Others are being more cautious, however, with EA Sports boss Peter Moore telling us at E3 that his games won’t include 3D “just for the sake of doing it.”
Sony is heavily backing 3D, having already updated PS3 Firmware to show 3D games. The company pushed the tech hard in its E3 press conference last month.
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Tags: 3d, The Eyecare Trust
33 comments
#1
mington
12/07/10, 2:32 pm
fuck em
#2
DGOJG
12/07/10, 2:35 pm
3D is the most pointless gimmick since the Wii.
@1 Hooray for discrimination! *Rolls eyes*
#3
Blerk
12/07/10, 2:40 pm
I can see 3D, but it doesn’t seem to do my eyes much good.
At least it’s a step ahead of those ‘magic eye’ pictures. I couldn’t see those for fucking toffee.
#4
Johnny Cullen
12/07/10, 2:43 pm
#5
Dralen
12/07/10, 2:44 pm
Hmm I wonder if this is the same for the 3DS 3D technology?
#6
Erthazus
12/07/10, 2:49 pm
@5 Yup.
#7
mington
12/07/10, 2:49 pm
@3 i remember when the those Magic eye posters first came out, after school we’d all pile into the local volume one and stand around the posters display spindle until we had nose bleeds
#8
DrDamn
12/07/10, 2:50 pm
@5
Yeah it would be. Figures I’ve seen before are 3-12% – it’s a bit variable.
There is nothing wrong with developing tech as an option for those who want it though is there? It’s not like the 2D option doesn’t exist – even with the 3DS – you can just turn it off.
#9
DrDamn
12/07/10, 2:56 pm
Oh nice to see none of the reports are picking up this point from the original source …
“The good news however is that binocular conditions can be easily detected during a routine eye examination and treatment may be as simple as a new pair of glasses or some vision therapy.”
http://www.eyecaretrust.org.uk/view.php?item_id=566
#10
Freek
12/07/10, 3:02 pm
And also that if you suffer from such a disability it’s not just 3D movies/games that you can’t see. You’d have trouble with depth persception in everyday life and might get eye strain and fatiugue from regular TV/computer screens aswell. Wich is why therapy and/or corrective glasses exist.
#11
ShakaCarnage
12/07/10, 3:11 pm
I can’t see in 3D. This sucks.
#12
LOLshock94
12/07/10, 3:46 pm
Britons???????
lmfao the 13% of “britons” are fucking old no wonder they cant see in 3D and the DS sells well over here but only to old people and its britains not britons did VG actually went to school
#13
Blerk
12/07/10, 3:52 pm
Actually it is “Britons”. But don’t let that stop you.
#14
Droid
12/07/10, 3:53 pm
@12 Oh dear. It’s you who needs to go back to school. It’s never been “Britains”. You’ve been watching too many “reality tv” shows methinks.
#15
Blerk
12/07/10, 3:54 pm
And it’s “did VG actually go to school”, not “went to”.
#16
Blerk
12/07/10, 3:55 pm
And you might want to look up ‘punctuation’. And capitalisation. Just saying.
#17
Droid
12/07/10, 3:56 pm
Here here/hear hear.
#18
Blerk
12/07/10, 4:01 pm
glol!
#19
LOLshock94
12/07/10, 4:10 pm
no it is britians
sorry im just drawing with some pretty colours
ooops im sorry its colors i forgot that when ever i type a word it had to be in the american dictionary
#20
freedoms_stain
12/07/10, 4:11 pm
lol, self pwnage. The best kind.
#21
Whizzo
12/07/10, 4:13 pm
Some biting satire from LOLshock94 there, impressive.
Oh and it’s a sail boat for those who can’t see it.
#22
Blerk
12/07/10, 4:14 pm
Would you like a shovel?
#23
LOLshock94
12/07/10, 4:24 pm
im an idiot fuck yous all
#24
Blerk
12/07/10, 4:26 pm
You mean:
“I’m an idiot, fuck you all.”
#25
Johnny Cullen
12/07/10, 4:27 pm
Haha!
#26
Bloodyghost
12/07/10, 5:04 pm
Thank god I am that I am not one of them. 3DS with 3D for me!
#27
Petulant Radish
12/07/10, 5:13 pm
I can’t see in 3D, walking down the road can be very hard as it’s like walking down Green Hill Zone in Sonic. Those mechanical wasp bus conductors are right old gits.
#28
Dannybuoy
12/07/10, 7:15 pm
I can’t see 2D. Life is tough
#29
DaMan
13/07/10, 12:11 am
I ‘m unable to give a crap about 3d.
#30
MushroomStamp
13/07/10, 12:31 am
@29 +1
#31
artanis
13/07/10, 1:53 am
How the hell can someone be “unable” to see 3d movies. You see 3d all day long every day, and your brain suddenly gets confused by a simulated image that is exactly the same as what your eyes normally process? They probably polled these people and 10% of the population is just stupid enough that they thought they couldn’t see it.
#32
Psychotext
13/07/10, 1:55 am
If it was exactly the same as what our eyes normally process then none of us would get headaches / eye strain from viewing stuff in 3D.
#33
steve30x
13/07/10, 10:30 am
@artanis: I cant see 3D movies because my left eye is a lot weaker than my right eye. I can just about see with my left eye. I went to see AVATAR in 3D and I didnt see any 3D just the movie which was darker than normal because of the glasses.