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Yes, 3D TV has it’s skeptics, but at the beginning of the last century, people thought “talkies*” would fail.

Because you’ve been reading this blog, the Kinect for the XBOX 360 uses multiple cameras to create accurate 3D images of the body, to track body movement.

It has a built in microphone also, and the ability to video conference.

Using existing chips and the Kinect (out-of-the-box tech), MIT’s superior intellects created moving holographic images.  You can see this in the 56 second video below.

According the video and this article,http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/24/kinect.used.for.15fps.holographic.internet.video/ , this eliminates the need for glasses.

And, to increase the frame rate you just need higher speeds, something like 1.5 Gigabytes per second.  Since USB 3.0 will transmit something like 3.2 Gigabytes per second, you should be able to run 30 frame per second from USB 3.0 video “web” cameras to a display for a holographic image.

It would be funny if the only way we actually enable holographic video conferencing is because someone invented USB 3.0 Video Cameras.

CES 2011 – Sony TV with video conferencing

I did catch a picture of a Sony TV demonstrating Video Conferencing at CES.

The USB Camera mounted above the screen is barely visible. 

The dork in the white baseball cap taking the picture can be seen on the screen.

*talkies = movies that have a sound track with voices.

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Next Year I’m buying a 3D TV.  Assuming I make it to next year.  I’m hoping to pick one up for less than $1500 just so I can watch Toy Story 3 in 3D.  Really.

My search on Amazon yielded about 27 different models from LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony.  All of them had at least 1, and most had 2 USB ports.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what I’ve been saying for a few years:  The USB ports will be used for WiFi.

If you look at the Samsung TVs, they advertise a Samsung WIS09ABGN LinkStick Wireless LAN Adapter.  Seen below.   Plug this in, to connect your TV to your WiFi and the world.

You can eliminate the Ethernet to the back of your TV.  In my mind this is good because:

1) Who wants to run another cable to your TV
2) It eliminates the need for Ethernet on the TV, lowering the BOM (Bill of Materials) for the TV.  In my opinion, if you are shipping a gazillion TVs, even if this 10 cents, you save 10% of a gazillion dollars.
3) Who needs Ethernet?
4) You can have multiple USB ports and use the same software hardware infrastructure with USB.
5) USB is cool.