Bhairitu, Slate.com has a series of columns on 3D by a guy named Daniel Engber, the most recent of which is a rebuttal to Ebert, including Ebert's post with the letter from Murch.
Among other points, he says the more 3D movies he watches, the fewer problems he has watching them. He speculates that his brain is actually adapting to the new type of visual stimuli and is beginning to process them differently. I've never seen a 3D film, but that makes sense to me on a theoretical basis. The visual system can adapt to all kinds of weird distortions. (See note below.) Engber also points out that this new generation of 3D is still in its infancy and that there are no uniform standards or techniques yet. He thinks there's a lot of room for technological (and artistic) development that may be able to eliminate or reduce some of the current problems. He seems to be a pretty thoughtful guy. You might enjoy the columns. This is the latest one; it has lots of embedded links, many of which are to his earlier columns on the topic: http://www.slate.com/id/2282376/ ----- Note: There was one experiment I recall reading about in which subjects wore special glasses that turned what they were seeing upside-down. At first it was terribly disorienting, but after a few days wearing the glasses, their brains figured out--spontaneously, without any training--how to change the body's orientation to the visual image so they could function normally. Then when they took the glasses *off* they had to go through the same process in reverse. There's an interesting discussion of this experiment and others like it here, with links to the original paper and other material on the phenomena involved: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=127812 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Roger Ebert has > commented before on his disdain for 3D but this article has > a letter from award winning editor Walter Murch on 3D pretty > much nailing the problem with 3D. I predict it will go away > just as it did in the 1950s and remain only for an occasion > "road show" feature. BTW, 3D TVs aren't selling either no > matter how hard they push them. People are saying "I just > bought a new TV a couple years ago and 3D gives me a headache." > > http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
