3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @11:59AM from the tell-that-to-seth-rogan dept.

circletimessquare writes "Walter Murch, one of the most technically knowledgeable film editors and sound designers in the film industry today, argues, via Rogert Ebert's journal in the Chicago Sun-Times, that 3D cinema can't work, ever. Not just today's technology, but even theoretically. Nothing but true holographic images will do. The crux of his argument is simple: 600 million years of evolution has designed eyes that focus and converge in parallel, at the same distance. Look far away at a mountain, and your eyes focus and converge far away, at the same distance. Look closely at a book, and your eyes focus and converge close, at the same distance. But the problem is that 3D cinema technology asks our eyes to converge at one distance, and focus at another, in order for the illusion to work, and this becomes very taxing, if not downright debilitating, and even, for the eyes of the very young, potentially developmentally dangerous. Other problems (but these may be fixable) include the dimness of the image, and the fact that the image tends to 'gather in,' even on Imax screens, ruining the immersive experience."

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you know what else won't work? by larry+bagina · 2011-01-25 12:00 · Score: 5, Funny

shitty filipino horror movies.

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What do you mean it doesn't work? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-25 12:05 · Score: 5, Funny

It generates an extra 3 fiddy per ticket. It works perfectly!
Look, shut up, we're trying to sell stuff here by h00manist · 2011-01-25 12:12 · Score: 4, Funny

This 3D stuff is doing great getting people to buy stuff. Yes we know it's snake oil, we don't give a damn, it sells. If we could just sell snake oil for this much money that would be great, but people won't pay $800 for a "full snake oil kit", unless you call it "full 3d graphics and video setup kit", you just don't sell as much. Now take your science mumbo jumbo elsewhere and let us get to work, we have people to fool and orders to fill, ok?

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That's too bad! by mugurel · 2011-01-25 12:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Just now we can finally watch 3D movies without glasses.
Re:yes. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-25 12:53 · Score: 2, Funny

You're apparently, not very hard, to please, when it comes, to punctuation.