3-D in your living room!

I went to the "Filming in 3-D Stereo: What You Really Need to Know" panel Wednesday evening at the Clarity Theater, presented by the Visual Effects Society and the PGA New Media Council. 3ality CEO Steve Schklair offered the gathering of producers and technologists a takeaway that took me by surprise: 3-D enabled TV sets are already on the market, though manufacturers aren't promoting the feature yet, and 3-D on Blu-Ray is coming soon.

"Every DLP set Samsung sells is 3-D enabled," he said. "You’re going to start seeing fairly decent releases before the year is over for that set. Mitsubishi is doing the same thing." You'll still need glasses to see the 3-D but "autostereo" monitors -- that is, 3-D without glasses -- already exist.

"The fact is, we’re just about there, the home market is coming. Everybody in this room is going to end up working in stereo."

Me, not so much, at least until Apple rolls out that holographic display they patented a little while back. But now there's yet another high-tech toy to inspire techno-lust. Like I needed that. (D. Cohen)