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The following information is true and accurate at the time of publication.
March 4, 2003
3D Consortium Formed to Create
3D Display Market
(Consortium Founders)
Itochu Corporation
NTT DATA Corporation
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Five major Japanese companies have
recently banded together to form the 3D Consortium whose
aim is to enhance the potential market for 3D by working
to develop and expand I/O devices for 3D displays, improve
the environment for the development and distribution of
3D content, and promote the commercial exploitation of this
new technology in a wide variety of application areas.
The five steering members of the Consortium are:
Itochu Corporation (Tokyo; Uichiro Niwa, President & CEO)
NTT DATA Corporation (Tokyo; Toshiharu Aoki, President &
CEO)
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (Osaka; Yukinori Kuwano, President
& COO)
Sharp Corporation (Osaka; Katsuhiko Machida, President)
Sony Corporation (Tokyo; Kunitake Ando, President & COO)
The 3D Consortium is composed of 70 companies (as of March
4) including 65 standard-member companies that include the
five steering members, hardware manufacturers, software
vendors, content vendors, content providers, system integrators,
video production houses, broadcasters, academic organizations
and other interested parties. In the future, with the goal
of encouraging the growth and development of a full-fledged
market for 3D applications and products, the Consortium
plans to implement an extensive educational campaign intended
to promote the development and adoption of 3D in hardware
areas such as manufacturing I/O devices and software fields
such as developing content.
Compared to conventional planar (2D) displays, stereographic
(3D) displays are not only capable of realistically depicting
the positional relationships of objects in space, but Consortium
members are also convinced that this ground-breaking technology
will open up new worlds of video imaging that will provide
a realistic sense of immediacy never before possible. A
variety of usage scenarios are being envisioned in fields
as wide-ranging as industrial design including CAD, medical,
educational, entertainment, advertising/PR, broadcasting,
electronic books, and more.
To deal with a number of specific issues, subcommittees
are being established within the Consortium to discuss issues
such as spreading image formats appropriate to various applications
and I/O devices, and developing guidelines and authoring
tools for creating content. In the future, the Consortium
will not limit its activities to Japan, but will expand
its efforts globally into various fields, and plans to aggressively
promote educational activities to encourage the widespread
application and expansion of 3D. The ultimate goal is to
generate an unprecedented new industry and market for 3D
technology.
Overview of the 3D Consortium (as of March 4, 2003)
- Name
- 3D Consortium
- Date of Founding
- March 4, 2003
- Steering Members (in alphabetical order)
- Itochu Corporation
- NTT DATA Corporation
- SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
- Sharp Corporation
- Sony Corporation
Officers
| Chairman |
Mikio
Katayama |
Group
General Manager, Mobile Liquid Crystal Display Group,
Sharp |
| Vice
Chairman |
Kenji
Torasawa |
General
Manager, Digital Systems Laboratories, Technical Development
Group, SANYO Electric |
| Vice
Chairman |
Keiichiro
Shimada |
President,
Vaio Notebook Computer Company, Mobile Network Company,
Sony |
| Comptroller |
Haruhiko
Katoh |
Division
General Manager, Media Service Division, Business
Development Group, NTT DATA |
Consortium Business Office
Digi-Book Japan Inc.
1-3-6 Nishi-Kanda Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5283-8640
E-mail: jimmukyoku@3dc.gr.jp
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