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2nd January, 2010, 07:34 AM
Results from a 4 year European Commission (EC) funded task to investigate the inherent rationales, technologies and practicalities of bringing in 3-D television systems to the mass market, have been released. The determinations of the project indicate that a stereoscopic 3-D television set with the viewer having on 3-D spectacles is close, and could just be a a couple of months away.
Several innovative systems based on autostereoscopic technology, that don't call for the putting on of spectacles, are being tested by numerous television makers and are merely two or three years off. Although the highest 3-D experience, using fully interactional drifting holographical images - akin to that which is encountered when Princess Leia seems to appear before Luke Skywalker as a hologram in Star Wars, may be commercialized near 2018.
Research also done at how 3-D imaging could be applied in different fields of technology including practice of medicine, air traffic control, subaquatic measurement, computer artwork and gaming. Determinations into how 3-D television systems would be boxed as a product indicated that either a smallish table with an imagery levitating above it, or a wall decorated TV with an image appearing out of it, may be the best option.
Several innovative systems based on autostereoscopic technology, that don't call for the putting on of spectacles, are being tested by numerous television makers and are merely two or three years off. Although the highest 3-D experience, using fully interactional drifting holographical images - akin to that which is encountered when Princess Leia seems to appear before Luke Skywalker as a hologram in Star Wars, may be commercialized near 2018.
Research also done at how 3-D imaging could be applied in different fields of technology including practice of medicine, air traffic control, subaquatic measurement, computer artwork and gaming. Determinations into how 3-D television systems would be boxed as a product indicated that either a smallish table with an imagery levitating above it, or a wall decorated TV with an image appearing out of it, may be the best option.