Despite the recent clamor for 3-D movies & television, there are physiological and psychological hurdles.
Here is a headline that appeared in Business Week magazine: “3-D Invades TV.” The issue in which it appeared was dated May 3, 1953, and it was by no means the first time 3-D was considered for television; decades earlier, the first 3-D TV demo took place in Britain.
Today, more than half a century after the Business Week headline, there are many reasons to believe that 3-D is closer than ever to taking over the moving-image media. New tiny high-definition cameras can be placed as close together as a pair of eyes. Advanced post-production software can correct differences between the two signals. Digital distribution technologies allow 3-D to be transmitted within single channels. Cinema and home display technologies are more “stereo-friendly” than ever before. And the 3-D Hannah Montana movie had amazingly high opening-weekend box-office gross revenues.
