Poll: First Person and 3D - the same part of the brain?

[mlooshka]

So last week my husband and I went and saw the Avengers in 3D. We saw it on opening night in 2D and it was fabulous (obviously, since I went to see it again). And honestly - the 3D ruined it. Some scenes gave me headaches, other scenes looked paradoxically more "flat" than they had in the 2D. I spent a lot of the film covering up one of the lenses of my 3D glasses, just so I could watch the story.

So after the film I was ready to have a ***** session about the awful 3D and it turns out that my husband didn't have the same experience - he said it didn't really add anything, but that it didn't ruin it by any stretch. I've asked other friends who have seen it, and I seem to be the only one having this experience. This being the first feature movie I've seen in 3D since the days of red and blue glasses (yep, I'm old) I came to the conclusion that it must be something in how *I* process the 3D.

Now, I also can't game in first person. I appreciate a game that has an optional first person mode, as it can be mechanically useful on occasion - but a game where the camera is ostensibly stuck inside my character's head? Can't do it. I can't navigate the 3D world like that, especially in frantic situations. Everything becomes confusing, I lose all sense of spacial awareness, and the whole thing just becomes a sickly swinging mess.

So I wonder - is the part of my brain that won't let me play in 1st person the same part of my brain that can't process 3D? Your thoughts, escapists? I know there are others here that have the same issues with 1st person - and the 3DS has shown us that 3D doesn't work for everyone. And who knows - maybe there's even a neuroscientist gamer who can explain this in terms of perception centres in the brain. Stranger things have happened.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I find most 3D movies give me a terrible headache/hurt my eyes (and look reasonably shitty to boot), with Avatar being the notable exception. I was livid when I found out our Avengers tickets were for a 3D showing, since it did not say so when I purchased them online. I have dry eyes as well, so I was expecting two hours of excruciating pain. It wasn't too bad. As 3D films go, Avengers is fairly inoffensive.

I can play first person games with zero problems whatsoever, though, even with the dry eyes. I mean, starting a screen does cause some discomfort and irritation, but watching the television is worse (brighter, farther away, more eyestrain).

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I don't feel any severe effects with either however 3D feels like building pressure behind my eyes, mostly it's because only our eyes can do 3D properly and that forced two image thing will always look off so the eyes constantly try to correct the view but they never can, it is just torture for them.

And with FPS it's usually a motion sickness/disorientation thing, when the Field of View(rendering angle) is low then even slight direction changes look make a huge scenery jump and our perception starts to crumble as it can't pull the images and coordination together.
Usually this is a console FPS + near screen issue because those dev fuckers can't be arsed to put in FoV options.
But you can train up your hand to eye coordination so it's easier to gap the games faults, if at all possible get a simple PC first person game and bump the FoV right up to 90+, then lower the sensitivity so your view changes very slowly so you will always get a clear sense of how you are navigating, even something like Minecraft can do the job.