Skip to main content  Man: 3-D movie changed my sight for the
better  By Elizabeth Landau, CNN June 16, 2013 -- Updated 1107
GMT (1907 HKT) Bruce Bridgeman, shown with his grandson Nicholas
Bridgeman Fields, can see the details of trees again.   • Bruce
Bridgeman says he saw greater depth after watching the film
"Hugo" last year   • He has a condition in which his eyes point
outward   • The enhanced visual experience has continued since
then  (CNN) -- Trees once looked like green panels for Bruce
Bridgeman. He'd have to move his head to gauge the relative
closeness of objects.  For most of his life, he had poor depth
perception. His eyes pointed outward and did not allow him to
see, in stereo, a single image with both eyes.  But in February
2012, something changed when he went to a movie theater with his
wife. He put on a pair of 3-D glasses to watch the film "Hugo"
and, to his amazement, the characters and scenery in this film
jumped out at him in greater stereo vision than he had
experienced before.  What's