By Tom Shelley

3D television and CAD displays that require no wearing of glasses, or sitting in a special place, has already been demonstrated, but require a hefty amount of data bandwidth and computing power to make them work, not to mention multiple cameras to gather visual data, although this would not be a problem with CAD or creating virtual reality.

The technology is based on holography, and has been pioneered by two EU programmes, HOLOVISION, which ended last year, and OSIRIS, coordinated by Thomson, which concludes at the end of this year.

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