Re: [photo-3d] Glasses and Viewers

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] Glasses and Viewers



> ...Last year I attended the 3D Kiss concert, and I estimated less than 50%
> of the crowd wearing the glasses during the 3D parts, despite the large
> screens tele-prompting the message " wear glasses now!"...

>                                              Mark Dottle


An interesting viewpoint.  Regarding previous comments by others concerning
content, surely the content that the audience expected and wanted was there.
So, why did not everyone want to wear the glasses?

My guess is that it was for several reasons.   "Kiss" audiences tend to be
of an age that is strongly influenced by peer pressure.   You may have
noticed that a good portion of the audience was much younger than the aging
musicians that were performing.   If your friend doesn't wear the glasses,
you don't want to appear different.   It is considered cool to behave
similar to your friends, but different from "the establishment" or
"authority" or whoever is telling you to do a certain thing in a certain
way.   As any school teacher will tell you, disobedience or defiance are
tools used by insecure and often immature individuals to draw attention to
themselves and show their displeasure with being told what to do.

Perhaps the images themselves were a prime consideration.  If the 3-D is not
good, that is reason enough.   I love 3-D.  Yet, one time when I was
attending a 3-D conference, the images were of poor quality and
out-of-register.  Rather than risk getting a headache (I was looking forward
to later events, which hopefully would be better), I removed the glasses.

Returning again to the sunglass analogy, you don't usually wear sunglasses
on a cloudy day.  I say "usually", because I have a rather strange friend
who does.  But, that's another story.

JR





 

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