[mythtv-users] OT: Why 3D TV won't work.

[Deyan]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Douglas Peale
<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 05/26/2010 10:52 AM, jedi wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:44:35AM -0700, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>> On 05/26/2010 10:29 AM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Douglas Peale
>>>> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> You do realize that everyone spends all day every day viewing 3D content. Real life is in 3D.
>>>>> If young people can handle 3D longer than older, than the one thing that is different from Real life in 3D TV, the focus
>>>>> distance, is not the problem. Us old guys can only focus at one distance anyway. The only thing left then to cause problems, is
>>>>> mistakes in the photography. Just because they are doing it wrong now does not mean they won't learn to do it right in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think this is a fair comparison.  You are talking about
>>>> perceiving 3D from a 2D image or seeing 3D in a real 3D environment.
>>>> I would imagine the tricks to convince the eye and brain that
>>>> something is in 3D for the former is much different than the natural
>>>> way the brain has been trained through millions of years to perceive
>>>> 3D in the world around us.
>>>
>>> How is it different? In real life, each eye gets a slightly offset view of the real world. In 3D TV, each eye gets a slightly
>>
>>     Probably something along the lines of how people can pick up on the fact
>> that a complex CGI scene just isn't quite right become some little detail was
>> off. 3D cinema is a simulation. It doesn't even work for everyone and for others
>> it works but with headaches and such.
>
> That can be classed as "mistakes in photography", not a flaw in 3D TV itself. Bad audio can give one headaches as well, but I
> don't see people blaming the technology for that.
IMHO 3D TV is different because the perception is very dependent on
the distance the two cameras are located from each other. Each person
has different distance between the two eyes and his/her brain is used
to interpreting the 3D picture based on that distance. So until you
come with a technology that can give you that same adjustment you will
have very few people that are lucky and they have the "average"
distance that the cameras are located one from another and the rest
that have all sorts of issues with 3D TV.