For one-eyed people (3D screens)

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The BBC News web site is vaguely suggesting that 3D monitors / TVs will the next 'buzz word' in the technological world. Do you guys know if I, as a 1-eyed person, will be able to make use of this? Bear in mind that 1-eyed people can't use 3D glasses needed to provide stereographic vision and we can't decode Magic Eye pictures either. Thanks.
 
Not untill true 3D displays or holographs arrive.

3D using flickering 3D glasses require both eyes to achieve the 3D illusion.
 
I know it's off-topic but check Leo Angart's Vision Training out. When I did it, there were people there who had similar problems and got good results, including being able to decode Magic Eye pics etc.
 
Not untill true 3D displays or holographs arrive.
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Sorry, but not even then.

It's all about depth perception, and for that, you need two working eyes - even with holographic displays or anything else that might be invented that uses your eyes.

If you don't see the real world in 3D, I'm afraid you won't see any of these in 3D either.
 
deadfolk said:
Sorry, but not even then.

It's all about depth perception, and for that, you need two working eyes - even with holographic displays or anything else that might be invented that uses your eyes.

If you don't see the real world in 3D, I'm afraid you won't see any of these in 3D either.
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This would be my understanding also.
No depth perception, any 3D you see is generated from your brian attempting to perceive it as such, or memory of such events.
Only good news is that the eye is a commonly messed up organ, when they learn to grow new organs I'd expect teeth and eyes to be very high on the agenda list, it is where the money is. How often do folks need a new heart or kidney.... not very often. Fix someones eyes, or replace missing teeth, all the time.
But until then, no 3D.
 
'How often do folks need a new heart or kidney.... not very often'

maybe you should come round the hospital with me one day, will be an EYE opener for ya:D
 
deadfolk said:
Sorry, but not even then.

It's all about depth perception, and for that, you need two working eyes - even with holographic displays or anything else that might be invented that uses your eyes.

If you don't see the real world in 3D, I'm afraid you won't see any of these in 3D either.
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You do see in 3D in the real world. Shutting one eye won't make everything 2D or flat.

Holographs and true 3D displays work will still work as they don't rely on sending different images to each eye.
 
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Incorrect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_p...Monocular_cues
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Those monocular cues are all things you could see today looking at a normal "2D" monitor. Even those with only one eye, like the OP.

Perhaps my terminology was ambiguous. I'm talking about binocular depth perception what the article calls "Stereopsis" - obviously that implies two eyes. This is the sensation of depth that 3D displays give you and which you see in everyday life with two eyes - even without movement or environmental queues.

Obviously, as in the wikipedia article, there are things you see which "tell" you how far away something is. But that's not what we're talking about here.

Holographs and true 3D displays work will still work as they don't rely on sending different images to each eye.
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If I'm honest, I don't know what you mean by "holograph". Is this the same as a hologram? Holograms and any "true" 3D display, WOULD effectively work by sending a different image to each eye because your eyes are in slightly different positions. That's how you see the real world in 3D, and that's what stereoscopic displays simulate.
 
Im clearly not an expert but i think the confusion here is maybe that 3D tv / 3D Cinema actually isnt 3D as such but more of an illusion of depth using depth perception. Real 3D i.e. holographic displays would be an object projected in a fashion that would allow you to physically move round the object and see them from different angles. Without any depth perception you aren't 'vulnerable' to the illusion of depth so the only way you can get it is with the latter.
 
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Couldn't have said it better, WILD9.

Shame it might take 10 years+ to get such displays though.

Atleast they're starting now even though it's not true 3D but more of tricking your mind into believing it is (and you have to wear dodgy looking glasses)
 
I have never thought of that before! Hopefully non-glasses 3D will have availible for you soon! It does exist just not been widley adapted.
 
Monserrat said:
The BBC News web site is vaguely suggesting that 3D monitors / TVs will the next 'buzz word' in the technological world. Do you guys know if I, as a 1-eyed person, will be able to make use of this? Bear in mind that 1-eyed people can't use 3D glasses needed to provide stereographic vision and we can't decode Magic Eye pictures either. Thanks.
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Excuse me for asking, and by all means tell me to do one, but do you literally only have one eye or do you mean you are blind in one? Was it an injury or a condition?

Good luck with the 3D thing.
 
The reason we have 2 eyes is all about preception of depth. The easiest example would be to try and catch a ball with both eyes open. Then repeat with just one eye open. Only then can you begin to appreciate the process.

All depth preception is imaged and processed by our brain when it combines the left and right images. Thats also why our eyes are also spaced next to each other.

3D cinema works on the same principle. Shutter glasses are probably the better for people as they close off the image from alternate eyes. Forcing the image for each eye. As long as both your eyes work then your brain should receive enough image information to build a depth field.

Polarised glasses don't work as good for single dominate eye people because its up to the glass lens to cut out the image light. So you'll still see generally out of your strong eye.

As far as im aware, all the telly manufacturers have opted for shutter glasses. Which is probably for the better.

As far as im aware. If your actually bind or registered poor sight in 1 eye then depth preception will be extremely difficult from a screen. Even in real life your brain has to try and simulate a depth field based on the information from just the 1 eye. The brain is quite good at doing that improvising.

The key is try before you buy. All 3D cinema works by polarising glasses, hence why its not as good for some people who are either left/right eye dominate.
 
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