Monday January 4
 
18:22
 
Happy New Year!

I celebrated 1/1/2010 by seeing Avatar in 3D. Great film it was – but if you’re going to watch it in 3D, bring some decent lens cleaner to get the grease of the specs.

Watching the film in 3D definitely added “depth”, but it was also strange. The way we normally “see”, at any given instant we can switch our focus from something close to something far and it’s the item we’re looking at that is in focus. With 3D film, the object in focus is the one that the camera chooses – even if we look at the background, it doesn’t snap into focus.

Seems obvious but it’s a bit weird having to search for the point in focus each time the scene changes. Some point in the future, we will have the technology where the entire depth of the scene can be recorded in focus and our eyes can switch between the item in focus. People will look back and think this 3D is primitive – but it’s still cool, for 2010. Cool enough to hold me back from getting an LCD TV until 3D TV is out.