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From: terry@moogvax.UUCP (Terry Westley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: 3D display and eye separation distance
Message-ID: <759@moogvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 14:12:16 GMT
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Organization: Moog Inc. Electronics & Systems Division, Orchard Park NY
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In article <3670@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> danm@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Daniel Milliron) writes:
>
>One known problem with 3-D displays that is noticed only by non-average
>people is that the images are created/recorded assuming a particular eye-
>spacing.  While my friends with average eye-spacing are impressed by 3-D
>movies, I see them out of focus because my eyes are set slightly farther
>apart than the norm (but not unattactively ;-),


I know an engineer from Pittsburgh, PA, working currently in Rochester, NY, who
claims she doesn't like Rochester because everyone's eyes are too far apart.

I guess beauty is in the eye of the behelden :-)

-- 
  Terry Westley         
  Moog, Inc. (no, not the synthesizer company)
  East Aurora, NY  14052-0018
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