Perscription 3D glasses?

[RobertScorpio]

If the future of movies becomes something like AVATAR, will they, or heck do they, sell lenses? I liked AVATAR but I hated the glasses. I'd go pay $100 for pair of glasses of my own, to wear only during such a movie, if this was really the future of movies.

Would you? Or do you think this kind of movie going experience (glasses) be limited due to future tech coming down the pike?

Rob

 

[RoJoHen]

3-D glasses and my eyes don't get along. The whole world looks blurry when I'm wearing them. It's one of the reasons I am avoiding Avatar.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^^ They show it in 2D theaters as well...

 

[RoJoHen]

^^ They show it in 2D theaters as well...

Not at my theater.

 

[OmahaStar]

^^ They show it in 2D theaters as well...

Not at my theater.

You need a new theater.

 

[RoJoHen]

^^ They show it in 2D theaters as well...

Not at my theater.

You need a new theater.

It's got 20 screens, and Avatar is only on one of them. I don't understand what they're doing.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^^ They show it in 2D theaters as well...

Not at my theater.

You need a new theater.

When the super MIRA MESA 18 opened with Stadium seating?

The old Mira Mesa 7 became a fish market...

The even older Mira Mesa 4 became a Panda Express

The Rancho Bernardo theater became a church...

The old Clairemont (where I saw Night of the Living Dead in 1971) was demolished and became a Taco Bell..

Rob

 

[OmahaStar]

Not at my theater.

You need a new theater.

When the super MIRA MESA 18 opened with Stadium seating?

The old Mira Mesa 7 became a fish market...

The even older Mira Mesa 4 became a Panda Express

The Rancho Bernardo theater became a church...

The old Clairemont (where I saw Night of the Living Dead in 1971) was demolished and became a Taco Bell..

Rob

Sir, Mesa must request that yousa do not type like JarJar. It's distracting and stuff.

 

[RobertScorpio]

You need a new theater.

When the super MIRA MESA 18 opened with Stadium seating?

The old Mira Mesa 7 became a fish market...

The even older Mira Mesa 4 became a Panda Express

The Rancho Bernardo theater became a church...

The old Clairemont (where I saw Night of the Living Dead in 1971) was demolished and became a Taco Bell..

Rob

Sir, Mesa must request that yousa do not type like JarJar. It's distracting and stuff.

But it is so....fun!

 

[Hitman]

Would you? Or do you think this kind of movie going experience (glasses) be limited due to future tech coming down the pike?

Rob

Honestly, I would wait until we see what is going to be the future of this technology, or whether if it will prevail over the 3D screens.

 

[UssGlenn]

Considering that the only way to see 3D is for each of your eyes to see a different image the glasses are not going away. The cheaper option to prescription glasses is to take one of the pairs of 3D glasses and rebuild it as a pair of clipons, then they wouldn't be any more uncomfortable than wearing your glasses with clip on sunglasses.

 

[Trekker4747]

IIRC, the way 3D glasses work these days is that one eye is ploarized verticaly and the other is polarized horizontaly. "Somehow" your eyes put these images together as a 3D image.

Depending on your paticular eye condition your glasses may have some-kind-of polarization or "prism" effect over one or both of the lens or the lenses are set to "blur" your vision enough in the oposite way than your vision is normally blurry.

I do not believe the prescription that allows a person with glasses to see can both have the prescription AND have the polarization to allow to see 3D movies. It seems to me the same lens couldn't be both as one would be fighting the other to "work." So the only way to have prescription 3D glasses would be for it to have two sets of lenses in one frame. This would make the glasses expensive. And possibly useless in just a few years when either your eyes need a new prescription or when 3D viewing technology changes.

 

[Arrqh]

I do not believe the prescription that allows a person with glasses to see can both have the prescription AND have the polarization to allow to see 3D movies. It seems to me the same lens couldn't be both as one would be fighting the other to "work." So the only way to have prescription 3D glasses would be for it to have two sets of lenses in one frame. This would make the glasses expensive. And possibly useless in just a few years when either your eyes need a new prescription or when 3D viewing technology changes.

No, there's no technical limitation like that. After all, you can just put the 3D glasses on top of your normal glasses and they work fine. A clipon solution would be best (because walking around with two circular polarizing filters at different angles would look really strange and also darken your vision), but the RealD version of the glasses cost less then $1 to manufacture. We're not talking about anything optically complex here... polarized sunglasses are basically the same. The only thing "special" about 3D glasses is the two filters are at different angles.

 

[TheSeeker]

If I could buy a more comfortable pair of 3D glasses I would. I enjoyed Avatar but the glasses they supply aren't the greatest.

 

[RobertScorpio]

If I could buy a more comfortable pair of 3D glasses I would. I enjoyed Avatar but the glasses they supply aren't the greatest.

agreed.. and like i said, I'd pay $100. It would be worth it to me...

Rob

 

[Data Holmes]

I can live with the glasses... the seats in the imax theater I went to were the bigger problem. Would loosing two or three seats per row in the name of comfort really be that big a loss? And if you don't want people putting our jackets on the seats next to us (to make up for the sardine nature of the seating to begin with) be so kind as to take a page out of the old school book and provide a coat/hat check room in the lobby.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I can live with the glasses... the seats in the imax theater I went to were the bigger problem. Would loosing two or three seats per row in the name of comfort really be that big a loss? And if you don't want people putting our jackets on the seats next to us (to make up for the sardine nature of the seating to begin with) be so kind as to take a page out of the old school book and provide a coat/hat check room in the lobby.

...and those fricking morons who need to text in the middle of a movie. Those people need to be tortured.

Rob

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I've had no problem just slipping them on over my glasses and it's worked perfectly well,