3D TV Area

It does not happen quite often that a new technology that changes the market trends attracts the ire of medical researchers who try to dismiss it as a health hazard packed in a candy technology case. 3D televisions, though initially unscathed, are now feeling the pinch too. 3D viewing alters the whole bio-dynamics of the brain and the eyes. Our brain works in coherence with the pair of eyes and both the eyes fixate themselves on the same spot. This is how we have been living from generations, and this is how we watch the normal 2D digital content on our television sets. However, 3-D changes the rules of the game.

The left and the right eye get disconnected from each other, quite virtually, and this opens up a hot debate upon the subject of the impact of 3D viewing on the health of humans. Recent researches conducted on a sample of more than ten people from different age groups suggest that there are causes for concern. A heavy dose of 3D content led to complaints of dizziness, blurring of vision and fatigue. And this is a claim repeated by many who have jumped into the pool without heeding the instruction plates. It is pertinent to mention here that the risks to the eye and its conjunction with the brain are real. In fact, Sega withheld the launch of a 3D headset with a game console about fifteen years back, just because of the fact that they were apprehensive of the dangers of ‘lazy eye’ that the device would expose the buyers to. Though much work and research has taken place since then, and today’s 3D gadgets are much safer and reliable, but the companies making these products do not take any chances. This is exactly why even market leaders like Samsung go out of their way and issue warnings about the risks to the eyes of young children that could emanate out of 3D viewing.

Not only this, too much 3-D watching can lead to a feeling of drowsiness and mental fatigue. This is because the spectacle created by 3-D technology is extremely overwhelming. Watching 3-D is very different from watching the normal television. The special 3-D glasses that are required to be worn for watching 3-D change the behavior of the eyes. The 3-D effect is created by serving the left and the right eye with two separate streams of images. This means that the eyes do not exhibit the normal pattern of fixating themselves on a single spot. This builds up as a habit and leads to what is called the problem of the lazy eye. Children run a greater risk of getting bitten by this bug as the natural fixation pattern is still in the development stage and the 3-D style watching impeded the development and even replaces it. Lazy eye is accompanied by the above mentioned symptoms of a feeling of fatigue and drowsiness, which may even catapult itself to the stage of nausea in some cases.