Moreover, since stepping out of movie theaters and into home entertainment systems, the 3D format has fallen flat: Disney's ESPN division is dropping its 3D channel, while the BBC said it will end its two-year 3D experiment following November's broadcast of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special. To run that sort of technology requires multiple precisely calibrated cameras, all pointed in the right angles a feat beyond most consumers' ability.

While people are buying TVs and computer monitors capable of delivering 3D images, the systems aren't quite there yet, Gillett said. 'We have it in the labs, we know how to make it work and we're looking at the ecosystem of devices and their capability to support it in order to make a decision when we might think about bringing something like that to market,' he told the news site. Mark Gillett, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Skype, said in a recent BBC interview (Opens in a new window) that the company has developed the technology and is working to one day bring it to the masses. Skype is celebrating 10 years of virtual communication by pondering what the next decade will bring, and that will likely include 3D video calls. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.

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