I don't mind telling you, I love the illusion of 3-D like I love few other of my body's natural light-processing functions. Color's no slouch, and distinguishing between different grades of bright and dark has more than its share of advantages, but there's just nothin' like seeing a shape, unmoored from any other context, and being able to visually estimate its placement in a tri-axis space field. I'm frankly ashamed that I've denied this ability to our character, Amos Van Problem, in the current webcomic storyline. 3-D, without a doubt, is incredibly, totally awesome...

Which is why I find it increasingly maddening that, despite the technology itself making incredible strides in this last decade, consumer adoption of devices supporting the format remains terribly low, and news about progress in the realm of 3-D imaging is kept far out of the spotlight.

I don't know about anybody else, but true three-dimensional displays, to me, are one of the classic hallmarks of the future world, easily on par with flying cars and women's fashion accessories that resemble the rings of Saturn. Flying cars are currently niether practical nor affordable, and we've yet to penetrate far into the technology for free-floating skirt accoutrements, but 3-D displays -- the technology is HERE, man, and it's awesome.

Take, for instance, these tech demos from Toshiba --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMomyg9eMrY

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSQsTgHj3Z4

AND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcClRC1pM_0

Just LOOK at that stuff! We, the human race, have almost reached the point of "Star Wars"ian holo-chess games, but instead of taking the initiative and embracing this awesome technology, we have shrunk back into the shadows, and let the Wookiee win. My fellow Americans, and whoever else reads this, we must not let the Wookiee win. Support your 3-D technology.

It's AWESOME.

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