I just got back from Panasonic's corporate headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey, where the company was giving previews of its upcoming 3D technology. Yes, I know 3D video has been around for decades, and over the last few years it's seen a resurgence in movies, but Panasonic's demo distinguished itself by presenting a preview of an upcoming standard in 3D HD video. If it catches on, 3D video might see its own legitimate and consistent technology, standardized across many different consumer electronics and motion picture companies.
Panasonic is calling the system Full 3D HD, and it set up a home theater dedicated to showing it off, equipped with the company's 103-inch, 1080p plasma HDTV and a prototype 3D-capable Blu-ray Disc player. The system uses active shutter glasses, 3D glasses with electronics that make the lenses shutter at extremely high speeds, to separate 120 frames of alternating video into 60 frames for each eye to produce the 3D effect. Each frame is full 1080p resolution, essentially pushing twice as much video through the screen as regular, 2D 1080p video.

