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New technologies make three-dimensional Web images a reality.
Those red and blue glasses you once wore to watch campy 3D movies may have life in them yet, as new technologies transform the flat virtual world of the Web into a three-dimensional one. From Flat to Phat Advertisement DDD's OpticBoom 3D plug-in software is available for free download at the company's Web site. The display shows one image to the left eye and one to the right to create the 3D effect. Although DDD doesn't expect consumer TVs using its 3D display technology to appear for about five years, the first commercial test display should debut in May in a mall in Maryland, Roth-Borunda says. The test displays will be about 50 inches and will be used for ads and music videos, she says.