Get ready for 3D

I don't really care much for 3D movies. There, I've said it, and probably made myself look like a curmudgeonly, out-of-touch luddite in the process. But nothing could be further from the truth: it's just that I think the technology isn't quite there yet. What we have now is a vast improvement over the old red and green anaglyph cardboard specs and crude polarised filters folks wore for early 3D classics, such as Bwana Devil and House of Wax way back in the '50s, but we still have some technical mountains to climb.

The reliance on glasses (whether passive - such as the circular polarised lenses of RealD products, often used in a theatre setting - or active technology, like the liquid crystal shutter glasses used for most home 3D solutions) is the biggest stumbling block. Glasses can cause nausea in some, and even manufacturers the likes of Samsung and Nintendo have warned that 3D products can be bad for your health - especially for the young, possibly causing eye strain and even epilepsy in people prone to seizures.

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