» Ebert Says 3D Will Never Work Because Our Brains Hate It
The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the “convergence/focus” issue. A couple of the other issues — darkness and “smallness” — are at least theoretically solvable. But the deeper problem is that the audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen — say it is 80 feet away. This is constant no matter what.
But their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120 feet, and so on, depending on what the illusion is. So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another. And 600 million years of evolution has never presented this problem before. All living things with eyes have always focussed and converged at the same point.
» via The Consumerist
AjPitts: This is interesting, but 3D has never really bothered me. I don’t get why so many people complain about it.
Moreover, I can’t take Ebert seriously after he claimed that video games could never be art. Maybe he can’t see 3D well because he’s a just a little to shortsighted…
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