Re: [photo-3d] 3-D on MSN Homepage

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

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From: "Gabriel Jacob" <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] 3-D on MSN Homepage


> ...on the MSN homepage they have a small picture of
> a kid wearing some 3-D anaglyph glasses! It doesn't show what
> the boy is watching but it is obvious that he is enjoying the
> experience. I thought, oh wow, some 3-D related article on the
> MSN web page. Sadly, it is an article (still interesting
> nonetheless) about kid's bad habits being blamed on movies (2-D,
> 2-D, not 3-D movies! Phew!). Still worth a visit (during your
> break of course). Check it out at,
> http://www.msn.com/

Misleading journalism implies relationships that are not factual.  The
choice of this photograph (possibly culled from a clip file) has little
relationship to the subject matter.  The type of technology has very little
to do with content, but the implication is guilt by association:  Some films
are bad for children to see; a child is shown wearing 3-D glasses;
therefore, 3-D must be what is bad for children.

A person who saw the picture and read the headline without bothering to read
or even open the article could easily be led to that conclusion.

This picture would have been much more appropriate if it had been tied to an
article that actually was on 3-D; possibly on some educational stereoscopic
endeavor, such as something about the 3-D Discovery channel programs, or,
since they are anaglyph, something about educational 3-D children's books.

Of course, they put it in the context of movies, also strengthening the
extremely common misconception that 3-D movies are typically shown with
anaglyph glasses.
Just the other day, a fellow who had never seen an Imax 3-D film told me
that he never would.  He said that "those goofy red and green glasses give
me a headache".
I pointed out that they were not using colored glasses at the local Imax.
He said that I was wrong, he sees pictures all the time of people watching
3-D movies and they are always wearing those strange colored glasses, and
they always talk about those funny red and green glasses in all of the
articles he has read about 3-D movies.

I know that he has MSN as his home page on his PC.  I expect a call from him
at any moment, gloating over this further proof of what he was saying.

JR


 

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