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3D Focus: Outside the conferences and projected sales figures, could the 3D industry be accused of ignoring negative audience reaction?
Greg Passmore/Michael Williams: When people are excited about something, they often ignore negative reactions. It takes time for everyone to settle down and collect enough data over time to get a consistent finding. Many people I know who hated 3D last year, enjoy it in certain settings this year. Time will tell. …
3D Focus: Do you feel that 3D uptake will take longer to happen than you did a year ago?
Greg Passmore/Michael Williams: Faster than I thought a year ago for handhelds and slower than I thought a year ago for television.
3D Focus: Will 3D TV and gaming always battle against physiological issues? (Constant awareness that it is an illusion awareness, convergence/focus issues etc.)
Greg Passmore: Television is very imperfect. Colours are wrong, dynamic range is too narrow and contrast is too hot. What I see in nature is vastly more wonderful than what I can see on a TV screen. Nevertheless, television has become an important storytelling machine and an occasional educator.
3D has a place in the television market. It is imperfect, emerging and only a pale representation of the real world. However, it is a representation, much like words on a page tell a story that each viewer takes away a different experience from. I don’t see perfection in future 3D television, but I do think we will see specific problems addressed and handled the best they can be on a little movie box in the household. …
Read the full interview here: http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/3d-news-2/people-watching-3d-will-be-smarter-people-passmorelab/6114