CassyLee (cassylee) wrote, @ 2009-02-03 10:54:00

Unnecessary search
A little preface: during the Super Bowl, there were a couple of commercials that apparently were in 3-D. Some drink (SoBe I think?) was one of them & an advert for a movie was the other. Anyhow, you apparently could pick up the necessary glasses at SoBe displays at various local grocery stores. I didn't bother, but then I saw that Chuck was also going to be in 3-D.

So after yoga I went to a Ralph's and searched the aisles in vain for a SoBe display. I finally gave in & went up to the store front & asked the manager about the 3-D glasses. He pointed me to the counter less than a foot away from me, where there were piles of the glasses. Well, really piles of paper with eyeholes covered with film that could be cut along the dotted lines to make 4 pairs of glasses per page. I took some home & got ready to watch Chuck.

I quickly gave up on the glasses - It's possible they would have worked for some people, but they just made the TV either very dark blue or jaundiced, depending on which eye I was using. The episode was fine without the glasses (although there were definitely periods where you could tell that a 3-D effect was supposed to be happening.) I hope that they provide a 2-D option when they come out with the DVDs for the season. Either that, or they provide better glasses with the DVDs ;-).

	dropedge 2009-02-03 18:17 (link)
	I completely agree. I watched the whole thing with the glasses on -- holding them to my head with my hands, in fact -- but I saved the episode and plan to watch it again. It was just too dark! (Reply to this) (Thread)

cyril 2009-02-03 19:07 (link)

I can't use 3-D glasses. Their fundamental tenet is that each eye receives slightly different versions of the same image and the mind converts those images into a 3-D composite (or something); unfortunately, that requires both your eyes to actually work, and mine point in different directions. Which means they can't form 3-D properly and I strongly favour one eye. Plus, the idea sounds daft. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dropedge 2009-02-03 21:25 (link)
	That makes a lot of sense and explains why I had such a hard time, I think. My left eye is much, much weaker than my right. And it probably didn't help that I usually wear my contacts for only a few hours each day, but I left them in all day and half the night so I could use the 3-D glasses. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cassylee 2009-02-04 09:46 (link)

Yeah, I have similar problems. When I was younger & the eye doc was testing me, he told me that I tend to only focus out of one eye at a time & thus had no true depth perception. The plus side was that apparently I'd be less prone to headaches, the minus side was that I could never be a jet pilot. In my twenties I tried using an eye patch to force myself to use my left eye more in an attempt to strengthen it. There was a while there where I was managing to focus with both eyes occasionally & even managed to see the 3-D effect in things like Captain Eo - but it was always pretty fuzzy at best (which might have been the best way to see Captain Eo.) But it's been years since I've done any eye exercises & the 3-D only worked with the more high end 3-D glasses - which the ones provided for Chuck most emphatically were not. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)