Eye Question
Sep09
I found this interesting when a good friend lost an eye in a car crash. Turns out that shutting one eye doesn’t give you the same effect, because your vision includes the closed eyelid. Once an eye is gone, it’s just… gone. Not producing data anymore.
They make 2D glasses that are just 2 lenses with the same filter, effectively blocking one of the two images. They’re like 10 bucks on Amazon and I highly recommend them for one-eyed people, and those who think 3D movies are fucking dumb.
But if someone only has one eye, doesn’t that mean they get the same 2D effect from the regular 3D glasses they get for free at the theater? Since they’d only be seeing out of one lens?
So I pay $10 to turn 3d back into 2d. And an extra $5 per movie not to see in 3d? I just watch it in 2 d. Most 3d movies don’t use the effect well. So far only “Coraline”, parts of “How to train your dragon 2” and parts of the new spiderman did well.
I have no depth perception (complete monovision – look it up). 3D movies give me massive, screaming, 2 day long migraines. I think a pair of glasses like that would let me go to the 3D movies with my friends who want that! (I just go in 2D and figure if they want to join me they will. And they do.) So, Julez, no. and jasper – I totally agree, but there is a social aspect.
My right eye sends data to my brain at a slower rate than my left eye(getting everything at like VCR frames per second). Eye doctor said something about optic nerve connection blah blah. One day it’ll just stop working altogether. 3D movies tend to cause my head to hurt. I don’t even see it in 3D half the time. Some work well. Others, all I get is a 2D screen and a massive headache.
I meant in the case of those where the eye is completely dead or missing, like in the case of someone with a glass eye. Since they get NO data from that eyeball, they would only be seeing out of the one lens (which is how Hank made the first pair of 2D glasses, he cut the same side lens out of his wife’s pair and glued it together.) So…. yeah.
Everyone I know who has lost and I says that it is easier to not have the eye then it is to close one eye and try to walk around. Which is good for them I guess because holy cow is it hard to walk around with one eye closed!
I’m going to venture…not at all?
So, how does it work when you have to shoot a rifle right handed with your left eye? I can’t quite picture it.
Use 45* offset sights. Set them off the left side of the gun, then just aim down the sights with your left eye. Had to do this for my dad once, he’s left eye dominant and right handed. It looks silly but he finally managed to hit the broad side of a barn.
Or you could be like me and shoot long guns left handed.
I’m left eye dominant, right hand shooter(oddly enough thanks to Firebirds for helping me identify my shooting problem). What I do with handguns is tilt my head 45ยบ to the right, and I’m dead on every time. Rifles, I can shoot hard sights the same way, and scoped I see just fine.
My mom is very left eye-dominant and right-handed. After watching her struggle to get down on the sights for ages, I finally convinced her to try shooting her rifle left-handed for a range session. She remarked that it was the best she had ever shot. LOL!
My father was blind in one eye and was the third ranking SCCA driver in Hawaii. I could never come close to his times in the gymkana even driving the same car.