Bringing us one step closer to 3D TV

We aren't expecting 3D television to show up anytime, um, within our lifetimes, but researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have figured out a way to compress the amount of bandwidth for beaming or streaming three-dimensional video down to a mere 3 Mbps:

The method cuts down on needed bandwidth by inserting, deleting and updating just the changed portions of a video
frame. These changes from multiple cameras are processed and merged into a single video stream so that
three-dimensional geometry of the image does not have to be recalculated for every frame.

[Via Lockergnome]