Does 3D really hurt children's eyes?

[Hedra42]

Mr Puggsly said:

Hedra42 said:

That article says nothing about simulated 3D visuals, or how a child's developing eyes could potentially be affected when repeatedly presented with unusual and unnatural stimuli.

Until there's conclusive, scientific proof that features like simulated 3D do not impair the development of young kids' vision, eye muscles, visual perception, spacial awareness, coordination, etc., companies will most likely continue to protect themselves by putting warnings on products with this type of feature, and many parents will most likely continue to heed those warnings if they have young children.

The person I responded to claimed eyes were already being damaged by screens. I was just showing a source saying no proof of that.

A lot of products have warnings just to avoid getting sued, 3DS is a case of that. But we've essentially gone through the entire life of 3DS and still no evidence.

...yet. 5 years isn't very long to gather incidental data from thousands of kids and analyse short term / long term effects, check against control groups, different age groups etc. There's years of work needed to scientifically prove something one way or the other, and that's assuming that any work is going on to find proof at all.

Unless by 'no evidence' you mean a lack of sensational headlines such as 'Child struck blind by playing with the 3D slider up'.