The Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will set up an industry-academia-government research and development unit this year that will work to commercialize virtual reality television by 2020. VRTV will allow three-dimensional images that can be viewed from any angle with a quality equivalent to that offered by high-definition TVs, in addition to letting viewers feel and smell the objects they are watching.
Personally, I'd like to see them develop TV that we'd have to interact with, something hooked up to some sort of exercise apparatus. After this has been done, they could create programs that deal with history or classical literature, enabling us to do a sports class and classical lit class at the same time.
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Wow, I can't WAIT; sounds awesome! I want it NOW. "3DHDTV" (there ya go for acronyms) -
Makes you wonder where man can really go with this technology. If they find a way to stimulate our senses of smell and touch in 3D with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, I see no reason to leave the house... ;-)
Now, now. We'll have to pass a law against that. The human race could stop reproducing within a single generation.
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