Are 3D Glasses bad for your health?(Red/cyan)

[quietGuy13]

I bought some and I enjoy making 3D images( you can make them from regular digital photos using a program i bought) or viewing 3D images from the internet. In this case 3D meaning anaglyphs , im not talking about regular 3D computer graphics.

 

Anyways, i started using them and everytime i do..i feel kind of weird after wards, like my eye feels weird and it lasts a while.

 

Should i limit to using the glasses only for 10 minutes or so.. or should i dump them to the trash and forget about it?

[WTRanger]

What you are experiencing is no different than motion sickness. Your brain has a hard time with 3D glasses. But don't worry, conservative estimates are that at least 50% of people experience the same thing.

 

The basic jist is that your mind has now 2 depth cues. The real 3D and the fake 3D, so it thinks you are hallucinating. Therefore, the queasy stomach and if you keep at it, the vomiting.

[quietGuy13]

Well I don't get dizzy or want to vomit.

 

Not at all.

 

I'm just looking at images not movies.

 

But what i do get, is my left eye seems like it feels kind of confused. My other eye is fine.

[WTRanger]

Images or movies, it doesn't matter. Your eyes, or in your case one eye, can't compensate for the 3D. So either you have a previously unknown eye problem that you were automatically compensating for without any knowledge to you, or you are among the 1/2 that have a hard time with 3D. Wait long enough, I bet you'd see lunch or dinner come back up. You just catch it before it goes too far.

 

Maybe easing yourself into it will work, maybe it won't. It also doesn't help that you are using gimmick 3D, not actual stereographic images taken from 2 separate cameras. Forced stereo from one static image almost always gives users problems. Have you calibrated your left and right eye distances? Maybe that's what's doing it.

 

Are you in active or passive 3D? If you are in active, make sure your left eye shutter is synced up. Also, if you are in active, make sure you don't have any fluorescent lights nearby. Ironically, they also function at 120 hertz, which is what your TV or monitor is also at, which will allow you to actually see the fluorescent light flicker.