3D technology

[seizingbeauty]

I was just wondering if anyone has had trouble with 3D technology such as movies, games or game systems?

 

[Dignan]

I won't even bother with a 3D television. I saw a movie in 3D once, but wasn't even thinking about the seizure aspect, and I had no problems.

But, my understanding is that there are different types of 3D in televisions and one version is essentially flashing the images to each eye differently to achieve the 3D effect with the glasses.

I've heard that people who are photosensitive can have a problem with this. And those who just get headaches from this sort of thing can be affected as well, though not to the point of seizing.

I believe that even a normal, non-epilepsy person will get headaches if they watch 3D for too long.

I don't like it.

 

[tinathesingergirl]

I have gotten headaches with most of the 3D movies have not had any problems since i don't have any photo senisitive issues that I know of with my epilepsy but I am always very careful to look away just in case if there are any strobe light effects in shows or movies. I don't want to have a seizure in public if i can possibly avoid it. So far the only movie even worth seeing in 3D in my book was Avatar. Nothing has even come close in quality to it. Also nothing is worth seeing in IMAX unless the screen is as big as a building save your money. Just my opinion. Of course I watch everything at home through my x-box 360 and computer on netflix and through the computer to save on cable rates and watch everything on dvd.

 

[Dutch mom]

http://www.aesnet.org/go/press-room/press-release-archive/news-releases?mode=view&id=122

Certain visual patterns and flashing images can provoke seizures in susceptible individuals, particularly among children and adolescents. Some media reports on the recent introduction of 3D-television sets suggest that this new technology may cause seizures in some viewers. Children who have epilepsy are somewhat more vulnerable to the provocative stimuli than their peers. But there has been no systematic examination of the potential effects 3D-TV may have on patients with epilepsy.


In the first reported study of 3D-TV and children with epilepsy, researchers at the University of Munich, Germany and the University of Salzburg, Austria, exposed 140 consecutive young patients (median age 12) to a standard test for photosensitivity, called photo-paroxysmal stimulation, and to 15 minutes of 3D-TV viewing. The viewing was on a 50” 3D-Plasma TV with 3D shutter glasses at a distance of about two meters (approx. six and one-half feet). Responses to the two forms of stimulation were recorded on an EEG and evaluated by two independent professionals.


“In our cohort of children with a risk of epilepsy or with known epilepsy fifteen minutes of 3D television viewing did not increase epileptiform activity on EEG, nor were there any apparent seizures,” says lead author Herbert Plischke. “We conclude that the chance for people with undiagnosed epilepsy to have an epileptic seizure provoked by 3D-TV is unlikely.”


Seizures that are provoked by television appear not to be a matter of technology, according to the investigators, but a matter of content, for example, color, contrast, pattern, and flicker, independent of whether the viewing medium is a 2D- or 3D-TV. A significant number of patients (20%) did present with other symptoms like nausea, headache and dizziness.

 

[Loopy Lou]

I chose Maybe. I like watching 3D movies but i seem to have a few blank-outs while doing so. Most of the time i don't realise i've missed anything until i watch it on dvd, unless of course i miss something that comes up later in the plot which makes me a bit confiused haha.

I do get a slight headache after watching them too. My brother's 3DS makes my head ache as soon as i look at it with the 3d on!

 

[valeriedl]

I've been to several 3D movies and have never had a problem.

I was a little worried when I went to see the first one, not knowing what might happen. Everything went fine so we've kept going to them.

 

[seizingbeauty]

It was more from a gaming aspect. Tried the 3D PS3 and had some major issues and then the 3DS and that is when my seizures went weird. I seem better now that I'm not using the new Gameboy anymore.

 

[petero]

I saw a new movie in HD, "the Wolf" this weekend and had a seizure. it's very visually active and flashy
though I'd had auras earlier in the day, it seemed the movie made it over the top

my friend and I didn't stay thru the whole movie

 

[Loopy Lou]

It was more from a gaming aspect. Tried the 3D PS3 and had some major issues and then the 3DS and that is when my seizures went weird. I seem better now that I'm not using the new Gameboy anymore

Speaking from a gaming point of view, i definitely wouldn't play any games in 3D. Some games can bother me a bit, depending on pixelation, colour, all of that. Luckily the newer games consoles all seem to be in HD and are not so hard on the eyes or the brain as far as i'm concerned. Good thing too, i'm addicted to Skyrim haha. Don't think i could cope with playing that in 3D!

Anyone remember the spectrum ZX/Commodore 64? The games were on cassette tapes that took like half an hour to load up and consisted of two contrasting coloured squares flashing as they loaded. Yeek.

 

[seizingbeauty]

Didn't have the Commodore I had the Colecovision slightly better system.