Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO's Blog Posts Tagged '3d' (4)

I will be lecturing this week at the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Boston, MA. If you plan on coming, feel free to take a look at this as a preview of my presentation. If you can't make it to the AAO this year (shame on ya!) but still want to learn a bit about 3D vision...goto  …

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Yesterday I was in my private office examing a patient who had several binocular vision problems. Suddenly my phone dings. I usually turn it off while I'm seeing patients...but I had forgotten to do so this day. I quicky checked to see what it was....and it turned out to be a patient of mine who had 3D Vision Syndrome.....with ALL the symptoms. We did OVT and she could once again go to a 3D movie and not throw up!

Now she was texting me to let me know that she could ride in a moving…

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When I was growing up, the 3D movies that were available were...well, shall we say, not any where near the quality of Avatar. One of these was called 13 Ghosts....the other...The Mask.



The Mask



In 1961, the Hollywood thriller fad was long over, and so was the 3-D craze. The Mask represented a reinvention of 3-D horror, the more so because it didn't come from Hollywood. It was the first Canadian-made film widely distributed in the… Continue

For Chicago-land SOVOTO Folks: ust a quick reminder, I will be on the HealthBeat segment of ABC WLS TV News (channel 7) in the Chicago-land area tomorrow on Thursday Feb 25th at 10 PM. I will be interviewed on why some people become ill after watching 3D movies. WLS 10 PM news is the #1 most watched news program in ...Chicago. Hundred's of thousands of viewers tune in each night. I hope I don't blow it! Please watch and…

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