I too had pretty bad strabismus when I was born and had an operation to correct it around 3yo, but have never been able to see in 3D, except for 3D movies where the effect is important. I have never been able to see a stereogram for example (and there was a huge fad of them when I was a teenager). As soon as I try to focus beyond the image as I was told many times, my left eye wanders off and nothing happens.
He describes exactly how I see: I see from one eye at a time while the other gives peripheral vision and I can usually switch between them at will. And I just caught myself with the face turned a bit sideways while reading his post, like he's describing as well.
What this thread shows me is that being stereoblind is not uncommon, but I feel that somehow it's not discussed or really considered as a handicap of sorts. Some people don't even know they are until their late twenties! You get tested for color-blindness early and often, as well as just plain vision, but somehow stereovision is either not tested or tested and the answer is often "well there's not much you can do". (granted, a lot of people are unaware they're color-blinded too, despite the tests)
I have always been bad at sports and it's obvious that this has played a role in it, so it leaves me a bit bitter because it was never something that was taken into account into me being bad. I was just bad.
He describes exactly how I see: I see from one eye at a time while the other gives peripheral vision and I can usually switch between them at will. And I just caught myself with the face turned a bit sideways while reading his post, like he's describing as well.
What this thread shows me is that being stereoblind is not uncommon, but I feel that somehow it's not discussed or really considered as a handicap of sorts. Some people don't even know they are until their late twenties! You get tested for color-blindness early and often, as well as just plain vision, but somehow stereovision is either not tested or tested and the answer is often "well there's not much you can do". (granted, a lot of people are unaware they're color-blinded too, despite the tests)
I have always been bad at sports and it's obvious that this has played a role in it, so it leaves me a bit bitter because it was never something that was taken into account into me being bad. I was just bad.
I'm glad I came across this post. I'll definitely checkout http://www.stereosue.com/…