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22 Companies, Led by Disney, Philips and Samsung, Join as Initial Founding Members of the Alliance Aimed at Speeding the Adoption of 3D Entertainment in the Home
LAS VEGAS, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) and Insight Media have officially announced the formation of the 3D@Home Consortium, a non-profit alliance of high-tech industry leaders mobilizing to provide consumers with quality, yet affordable in-home 3D entertainment.

Connected Entertainment by Anne-Marie Roussel
Vollee: Gaming in 3D on your cell phone
Vollee’s service basically streams 3D console gaming experience to 3G phones. It enables any virtual world game and multiplayer game to be accessible from a cell phone with amazing graphics quality. I saw a demo of a shooting game set in a 3D virtual environment—looked like Second Life in a futuristic war zone.

Carmike To Show FedEx BCS National Championship and NBA All-Star Saturday Night, Live in 3-D at 35 Theatres in 19 States
COLUMBUS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carmike Cinemas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKEC), the nation’s leading motion picture exhibitor in 3-D, today announced that it will be showing two upcoming Live 3-D broadcasts: the FedEx BCS National Championship Game between the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma on January 8th and NBA All-Star Saturday Night on February 14th. Both events will be shown at 35 Carmike theatres in 19 states (list below).

Looking at the future in 3DLooking at the future in 3D
If the "wow'' factor is a guarantee of success, Spatial View will be huge. The interior of the company's Front St. headquarters is crammed with electronic devices – flat-panel plasma televisions, PCs, video-game monitors, fixed-image monitors and hand-held devices – all projecting images, animations and videos in three dimensions. Instead of being overwhelming, the illusion is intriguing. It makes one wonder why everything isn't in 3D.

Global Consumer Electronics Industry Will Grow to $700 Billion by 2009, CEA/GfK Study Finds
Worldwide revenue for consumer electronics (CE) will grow nearly ten percent this year, hitting the $700 billion mark by 2009, according to new data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and the GfK Group. According to the report, CEA/GfK Worldwide Consumer Electronics Sales & Forecast, consumers around the world continue to embrace technology to improve their lives.

Sky says 2012 London Olympics could be in 3D
Europe still isn't the place to be for limitless HD content, but London in particular could be a 3D extravaganza come 2012. The host city for the next Summer Olympics may be coming to your living room like never before, as Brian Lenz, head of product design and innovation at Sky, proclaimed that "there is a very good chance you'll see the London Olympics in 3D.

Film studios are looking to 3-D to revive the industry the way sound and color once did.
Years ago, Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, had a "Eureka!" moment while watching Robert Zemeckis's "The Polar Express." The adventure-filled Christmas story, starring Tom Hanks, used performance-capture technology to incorporate the movements of live actors into animated characters, a novelty at the time.

Sky moves towards 3D broadcasts
The satellite broadcaster says it has successfully tested the delivery of 3D programming to a domestic television, via a high-definition set-top box.

Surgery in 3-D
Technology originally developed by the military to help fighter pilots immerse themselves in air combat is now helping surgeons performing minimally invasive surgery be more precise when removing a diseased prostate or completing a hysterectomy.

U.S. Digital Camera Sales May Hit New Record
U.S. sales of digital cameras have beaten expectations so far this year and are poised to hit a record as lower prices encourage consumers to buy a more-powerful second or third camera this holiday season, the NPD market research group said on Wednesday.