Can you see in 3-D?

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Yeah. Magic eye pictures are autostereograms (I keep forgetting the name for some reason, so I try to use it where I can).

I recently found a tool that shakes a given image to the left and right. You can adjust the focus. As you adjust the focus, the image in the autostereogram may or may not appear. It will probably work for you if you were to play with it: Magic Eye Revealer.

Do you mean like 3D movies? I saw Avatar in 3D and it wasn't anything to write home about. The trailers had better 3D than the actual movie. I figured it was just a glitch with the pitcular theater but perhaps it is me.

There is like 5-15% of the population that can't see in 3D it seems, sometimes it's related to eye issues.

You're right, I could see the shapes when the speed was up all the way. I was a little disappointed that I've been working so hard to see not much.

Thanks for showing me that magic image revealer! I've NEVER been able to see them!

I have an astigmatism and my eyes work separately and I can consciously switch which eye I'm 'looking' through.
It's hard to explain because I can still see out of the other eye but I am really just ignoring anything that it is seeing.
My optician gave me a name for it but I can't quite remember.

As for 3D films, the last 3D film I saw was My Bloody Valentine and the effects didn't really work for me.
I think I need to see a new and recent 3D film to make sure though.

I don't have astigmatism, but I can do that. I thought everyone could do that. It's a surprise to learn otherwise.

I think anyone can do it if they put their mind to it but I am always doing it. Can be quite annoying sometimes when I'm on the computer for a very long period of time only focusing through one eye. Puts the strain on it a lot more.

[quote="CodeJunkie"]Thanks for showing me that magic image revealer! I've NEVER been able to see them!

I have an astigmatism and my eyes work separately and I can consciously switch which eye I'm 'looking' through.
It's hard to explain because I can still see out of the other eye but I am really just ignoring anything that it is seeing.
My optician gave me a name for it but I can't quite remember.

As for 3D films, the last 3D film I saw was My Bloody Valentine and the effects didn't really work for me.
I think I need to see a new and recent 3D film to make sure though.[/quote
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Sounds like you either have esotropia or exotropia. This is what I have, you can have this condition with or without a lazy eye but it has to with the way the brain is processing information and is common among austistic people. This probably explains why they don't fully understand my estropia, whenever i got to the doctor's they think I;m playing some kind of game with them because my eyes keep switching back and forth and compensating for each other in weird ways. They told me I have it but I think maybe mine is more severe or just unusual, soooo many things are being explained by possible AS lately. It's a neurological issue and we won't ever have binocular vision-using both eyes equally at the same time.

You would be right, I do have a lazy eye

I have some 3D perception, but not as much as "normal" people. 3D movies and amusement park attractions have some effect, but Magic Eye image do not work at all. I can see through both eyes and can focus on objects using either of them. This can make it a problem to do the eye test at the driver's license office, as the machine they use presents a different image to each eye.
I used to be right-eye dominant, but when it started to get more short-sighted, I began to use the left eye more for focusing on distinct objects when not wearing glasses.

Nope, can't see 3D movies. Dx amblyopia at 11 yrs old. The vision in my left eye deteriorated to 20/800 and was corrected with lasix. It really helped but I still have monocular vision.

there was a national uk newspaper published with some 3-d in it, it came with glasses, i could not see any difference at all. must try a movie.

I can see in 3D.
I have astigmatism.

Stuff looks exactly the same as if it were a photo. No depth perception.

Just recently blogged about this. I will cut/paste the blog entry here. It's from a month or two or three ago when I was first diagnosed with exotropia and prescribed prism lenses which gave me sudden and scary 3d vision.



[Photo is of me with new glasses on.]

So at my last eye exam (where I also have a way stronger prescription than before) the guy finally noticed I was seeing double. I had gotten to where I really had to concentrate to tell if I was or not because it’s been that way so long when my eyes are relaxed. (I had even bought an eyepatch for days when I really wanted single vision, and other times taken to closing one eye a lot. And I had no idea you were supposed to tell eye doctors about seeing double. I said I did once when my regular doctor asked and he never mentioned glasses.) And then he did a bunch of tests to see how far my eyes swing between double and single eye vision, told me I had exotropia (eyes that point outward from where they should, in my case both eyes), and prescribed prism lenses.

He told me it would feel weird when I got them on. And it did. Things sort of converged and then diverged in the other direction and swung in and out back and forth for awhile. Rapidly. Then it got so I was seeing single except if I relaxed too much. But the woman at the glasses store said that should change in a few days.

The hardest part to deal with, though, is the depth perception. I’m used to not having that. Even my tinted lenses didn’t help it this much. But it made my trip home completely terrifying.

I never knew how high off the ground, and therefore prone to tipping sideways, my powerchair was. There were all kinds of bumps in the sidewalk and missing tiles and stuff that look huge, I used to think they were quite shallow. At one point I overcompensated and drove my chair into a position where I was sticking out into the road and my wheels were spinning on air. (Thankfully a pedestrian helped me.)

I got home very carefully and nervously. I was constantly distracted by stuff sticking out at my face, noticing relative tallnesses for the first time, and really disturbing-looking bumps in the sidewalk. I used to navigate largely by feel, using sight just for crude measurements of where to go. Now sight was so accurate it was some combination of distracting and unnerving.

They have all told me it is a terrible thing to switch between prisms and regular lenses. So I am not doing that. It is weird though to take my glasses halfway off and see that something is double outside the glasses and single inside them.

So that’s all I know so far. They say it’ll take at least a few days before I finally get used to them. I hope I get used to having depth perception because running around outside seems fairly hazardous until I do. Things that I’ve done a hundred times by feel are outright scary now that I can see the size of some of the sidewalk cracks. I wonder how many of my visual problems are related to this, and how long I’ve had it.