3D movies are 1D more awesome than 2D movies.

So there.

It's fine in theaters.

It's stupid at home.

And holy sh*t lol at getting the guy without depth perception to write an article on why 3D sucks.

3D is a liberal conspiracy to keep pirates from going to the movie theater.



These pirates

I'm developing a new type of 3D TV that doesn't require any glasses at all. It uses a proprietary algorithm to turn everything into Magic Eye pictures.

It's a fad. Just like sound and color and the cheeseball I et last night, it, too, shall pass.

oldebayer: It's a fad. Just like sound and color and the cheeseball I et last night, it, too, shall pass.

Or it could be like that roll of bubble tape I ate in the sixth grade on a dare.

Thoguh: 3-D movies with a lot of movement and action like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland give me a horrible headache.

Until they fix that I'll pass on 3-D.

I got about 40 minutes into Avatar 3D before I walked out. I was proud to get thru 40 minutes. It was awful. Never again.

/3D=FAIL. Just release the DVD. Theaters suck anyway.

I am actually working on -- i.e., vaguely thinking about from time to time -- an algorithm that could, in fact, render something similar to 3D on a flat surface without a need for glasses. Trouble is, if I hinted at a single detail, someone else would rip it off and make a million bucks an hour for the next ten years. So unless someone figures it out independently, you're all stuck with teh glasses.


NikolaiFarkoff: You've obviously never stared at TV snow for very long...I remember, not long after Poltergeist, it was pretty terrifying.

It's like watching all the movies ever made, including some that haven't been made yet, all at once.

If they'd refer to it as "Triple D" then I might get excited. Until then, meh

Tell me when they bring back Smell-o-vision

TFA said "green and red" 3D glasses...so I GIS to see if I was completely wrong in thinking they were blue and red and found this:


"Let's do coke and watch Avatar. Again."

Ah sh*t...that joke sucks...I should have said some old school 3d movie..

"Let's do coke and watch Friday the 13th: Part 3: 3-D."

Not everyone can see the 3-D effect in these movies. Here is a simple test to see if it's waste of money.

1. Hold both your arms in front of you with your hands about a foot apart.
2. Make fists with your hands.
3. Extend the index fingers of both hands towards each other.
4. Bring your index fingers close together and attempt to touch their tips PRECISELY together.

If you can do it, you can enjoy 3D movies. If you cannot, go to a vision therapist. You can also try the above test with one eye closed. You will almost always fail at step 4.

s1ugg0

that floating finger effect made me of this (new window)

/the mind is a funny place

RminusQ: SpinStopper: I have no depth perception because I had amblyopia or "lazy eye" as a child, which had to be corrected with surgery. Once it was corrected, my brain had already learned not to combine the signals from both eyes. As far as I know, this cannot be corrected. At least not in my case. There are quite a few people like me.

As such, I don't see things in three dimensions. 3-D movies look awful to me, and just give me a headache...

High five! In the same situation. In my case, the diagnosis was alternating strabismis (I can look out of either eye at a time, but not both). I wore glasses briefly as a youth, but since the problem was internal, they did jack and shiat. By the time the problem was discovered, we didn't bother doing surgery because it was unlikely to fix the brain's inability to combine the images, so it was far more likely that it would damage my vision than help it.

Magic Eyes do nothing for me.

High five over here, too! Two eye surgeries, eye patch humiliation, etc. I now have scar tissue from the two surgeries and I am unable to drive because it is too terrifying. I can't tell how far away anything is. It's hard to go up narrow stairways without grasping the rail, I suck at pool, bowling, baseball, etc.

Hating on 3d is for losers trying to impress other, possibly even larger, losers.

oldebayer: I am actually working on -- i.e., vaguely thinking about from time to time -- an algorithm that could, in fact, render something similar to 3D on a flat surface without a need for glasses. Trouble is, if I hinted at a single detail, someone else would rip it off and make a million bucks an hour for the next ten years. So unless someone figures it out independently, you're all stuck with teh glasses.


NikolaiFarkoff: You've obviously never stared at TV snow for very long...I remember, not long after Poltergeist, it was pretty terrifying.

It's like watching all the movies ever made, including some that haven't been made yet, all at once.

Well you better hurry up with that because Nintendo announced they were working on the 3DS last month

starleen Quote 2010-04-12 05:39:25 PM
RminusQ: SpinStopper: I have no depth perception because I had amblyopia or "lazy eye" as a child, which had to be corrected with surgery. Once it was corrected, my brain had already learned not to combine the signals from both eyes. As far as I know, this cannot be corrected. At least not in my case. There are quite a few people like me.

As such, I don't see things in three dimensions. 3-D movies look awful to me, and just give me a headache...

High five! In the same situation. In my case, the diagnosis was alternating strabismis (I can look out of either eye at a time, but not both). I wore glasses briefly as a youth, but since the problem was internal, they did jack and shiat. By the time the problem was discovered, we didn't bother doing surgery because it was unlikely to fix the brain's inability to combine the images, so it was far more likely that it would damage my vision than help it.

Magic Eyes do nothing for me.

High five over here, too! Two eye surgeries, eye patch humiliation, etc. I now have scar tissue from the two surgeries and I am unable to drive because it is too terrifying. I can't tell how far away anything is. It's hard to go up narrow stairways without grasping the rail, I suck at pool, bowling, baseball, etc.


I am in the same boat. I was born with a lesion on my right optic nerve. There is nothing they can do about it right now (hopefully stem cells in the future) so my brain has just compensated. I now see about 95% out of my left eye, and a very faint fuzzy picture out of my right. So yeah, 3D is a waste of money for me as well.

3d haters. Likely the same crowd that also dislikes 5.1 or 7.1 sound.

Does it make a terrible movie good? No. Does it make a decent movie a bit more impactful if used correctly? Yep.

BKITU:
5.1/7.1 doesn't make me queasy. 3D for me turns what may be an enjoyable movie into a test of how long I can go before I refill the popcorn tub.

Valid point, but I doubt there will ever be a movie that isn't released in 2-d as an option.

I know where you're coming from though. Playing FPS games doesn't make me sick to my stomach.. but watching videos of other folks playing actually does.

/wow, that sounded geeky.
//I'll shut up now.

BKITU: kab: 3d haters. Likely the same crowd that also dislikes 5.1 or 7.1 sound.

Does it make a terrible movie good? No. Does it make a decent movie a bit more impactful if used correctly? Yep.

5.1/7.1 doesn't make me queasy. 3D for me turns what may be an enjoyable movie into a test of how long I can go before I refill the popcorn tub.

Coraline in 3-D? Excellent pairing of effects. The next Michael Bay twitch-fest? Even more reason not to go.

3D is just a means to increase ticket prices by 30%, or even more, and inflate box office results. Remember, Hollywood is the only industry that measures success in terms of gross revenue, as opposed to units sold. So as movie ticket sales remain flat, the increased box office grosses will make it look like studios are doing better business than they really are.

thornhill: 3D is just a means to increase ticket prices by 30%, or even more, and inflate box office results. Remember, Hollywood is the only industry that measures success in terms of gross revenue, as opposed to units sold. So as movie ticket sales remain flat, the increased box office grosses will make it look like studios are doing better business than they really are.

Thanks Einstein. My dog has more insight than you.

thornhill: the increased box office grosses will make it look like studios are doing better business than they really are.

LOL

I'm going to make sure my next TV is 3D capable. I watched some sequences of the Olympics in 3D and it was mind blowingly cool. I don't care about sports much, but I certainly can see myself playing Fallout on a 50 inch 3D TV.

I already wear the xbox earpiece/mic when playing online and sit right in the middle of the room for surround sound. Just give me a set of 3d glasses w/ mic and earpiece built in, and I'm game.