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THX has provided equipment and setup assistance to a special eye clinic just opened in Beaverton, Oregon by Pacific University’s College of Optometry.  It is the nation’s first 3D eye exam room to help people with depth perception problems, and hopes also to provide information to the 3D industry to improve the methods they use to display 3D to audiences. The clinic is already discovering what it is about viewing 3D that causes some people to have eye problems.

The room is designed to deliver the best 3D experience that the technology can deliver. It has a 50-inch flat screen and will soon have a 90-inch screen for projected 3D movies. An optometrist says you can’t perceive 3D unless both your eyes are seeing well and working well together. The recent surge of 3D movies is revealing depth-perception problems with some people. They don’t see the depth, or they get vertigo or even nausea. If they have eye misalignments, that can often be fixed with proper prism prescription lenses and or eye exercises. The eyes of Hollywood are on the Beaverton clinic now to discover what their 3D research learns, since no other clinic is doing this.

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