Does 3D really hurt children's eyes?

[Hedra42]

Mr Puggsly said:

Hedra42 said:

...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'.

If millions of people playing 3DS for much of your childhood hasn't shown some affects, then its probably harmless. Kids today in general are constantly looking at screens.

I also found it odd Kinect gave warnings about playing for long periods. Maybe they were concenred fat people were gonna have heart attacks.

Lung cancer went from being a rarity to a global epidemic when smoking was popularised in the late 19th century, but it wasn't until the 1930's that it was linked to smoking, and only then after years of scientific studies and experiments. So I guess that was 50 years of 'no evidence' until it was scientifically proven.

Re bolded: There has already been some statistical evidence published linking dry-eye syndrome in kids to excessive smartphone use (but interestingly not computer screens or tv)