[Nfb-new-hampshire] [trufen] 3D TV

[Ed Meskys]

Ned Brooks said, on the Trufen listserv, that he had no depth perception because he did not learn it as an infant. I was born very nearsighted and my parents realized something was wrong when I could not find toys, etc. The first doctor they took me to mis-diagnosed the problem and gave me the wrong glasses, which I hated and kept taking off. I was finally given glasses which work when I was about 7. I had never learned to recognize peoples faces, which I attributed to not getting the proper imprinting as an infant. However I never had problem with parallax. I had reasonable depth perception with glasses. (My nearsightedness was so severe that without glasses I could not even see where on the wall the eye chart was.) I appreciated early 3-d movies until I lost sight in my left eye at the age of 17, in 1953. First 3-d movie I saw after the failed surgery to repair the torn retina was KISS ME KATE. While I did not get the parallax, obviously, the camera angles were designed to emphasize depth and I had a false feeling of real depth. I rarely made mistakes in pouring drinks into a cup because of the lack of true depth parallax. Then my other retina failed in 1971, when I was 35, the whole matter became moot.

Ed Meskys