Is it possible to see 3D movies with only one eye?
by 3D G33K
My left eye is gone and I have a prosthetic. I would like to know if there is or will ever be a way to view 3D images or films with one eye.
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Meggie
yes
No Little Hippo
No, you need both eyes for the glasses to function properly . . .
Jaredwtf
If the one lens is half red/blue???
Maybe they have a 3D monocle or something? =D
Antonio
Nope
soujanyam1979
The real world appears 3d to us because we have 2 eyes operating in stereoscopic mode. The images captured by the two eyes of the same object (say a stone on the road, or a flower in the garden) are sent to the brain. From the relative positions of the objects in the images sent by the eyes, the brain calculates the ‘depth’ of the object. This type of vision is unique to human beings and other animals do not have this vision. Their eyes are located on either side of their head. So they can scan a larger area (the right side scanned by right eye and the left by the left eye), but cannot sense the ‘depth’.
The 3d goggles make the otherwise 2d film/picture appear 3d by applying similar principles. The goggles are made in such a way, that two different views of the same ‘scene’ is projected through each lens to the eyes. The two views are slightly offset (like we have in our real 3d world) by varying degrees by programming so that we have different objects seen at different ‘depths’ in the scene.
So, obviously with only one eye, watching 3d with present state of technology is not possible. Even you might be facing problems perceiving depth in real life also.
RAWR... I am a Polar Bear!!!!
i have less than half the vision of my left eye (lack of muscle due to my dad’s drug use that mom was unaware of when i was conceived) so i sorta know where you are coming from… even with 3d glasses nothing bounces out at me, i see red and blue fuzziness on the screen when an object(s) is supposed to be jumping out at you. I can still enjoy the movie without the glasses but with some movies or those 3-d attractions like those at disneyworld, i can see red/blue fuzziness outlining the objects that are enhanced. i even watched the terminator attraction with my red lens sunglasses on, not realizing til halfway through that i hadn’t put on the red lens glasses they handed out…
i do have some depth and distortion issues since i do not have a point of convergence like someone with two good eyes. I hope that in the future they can allow someone with limited vision to be able to see just as clearly as those who have perfect vision. I would give anything to get to experience a 3d movie or at least a 3d book where you concentrate on the page and an image appears out of the chaos. (my grandma got me one of those books and i cried, cuz she had forgotten i could not see those kind of images!!!)
I do have a cool party trick though. I can stand partially in a doorway and see the wall in front of me with my right eye and see “around the wall” through the doorway to what is on the other side of the wall with my left eye. So if someone is holding a cup on the other side of the wall from me, i see both the wall and the cup at the same time, kinda like one of those duck or rabbit illusions…