title: Balance and coordination after viewing stereoscopic 3D television.
abstract: Manufacturers and the media have raised the possibility that viewing stereoscopic 3D television (S3D TV) may cause temporary disruption to balance and visuomotor coordination. We looked for evidence of such effects in a laboratory-based study. Four hundred and thirty-three people aged 4-82 years old carried out tests of balance and coordination before and after viewing an 80 min movie in either conventional 2D or stereoscopic 3D, while wearing two triaxial accelerometers. Accelerometry produced little evidence of any change in body motion associated with S3D TV. We found no evidence that viewing the movie in S3D causes a detectable impairment in balance or in visuomotor coordination.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
authors.forename: Jenny C A
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Read
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Simonotto
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
authors.forename: Iwo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bohr
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK ; Newcastle University, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Campus for Ageing and Vitality , Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Godfrey
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK ; Newcastle University, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Campus for Ageing and Vitality , Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
authors.forename: Brook
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Galna
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK ; Newcastle University, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Campus for Ageing and Vitality , Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rochester
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neuroscience , Newcastle University , Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
authors.forename: Tom V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Smulders
keywords: 3D displays; binocular disparity; binocular vision; simulator sickness; stereoscopic vision