Yarbus's experiments showed that our gaze rapidly flicks back and forth across an image so that our centre of vision focused on the most important parts.

The disease is wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), in which blood vessels grow abnormally and leak into the centre of the retina, damaging sufferers' central vision.

Speaking at a launch event in New York's Time Warner Centre, Tim Baxter, president of consumer electronics at Samsung, said: "3D helps makes our vision a reality.