The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is laying the foundations for home stereoscopic entertainment.

LINK: SMPTE to set home 3-D standards

According to the SMPTE plan, the society will first establish an industry task force to define the parameters of a mastering standard for 3-D content distributed via broadcast, cable, satellite, packaged media and the Internet, and played-out on televisions, computer screens and other tethered displays. In six months, the 3-D Home Display Formats Task Force will produce a report that defines the issues and challenges, minimum standards, and evaluation criteria.

The society will then form a standards committee, which will use the report as a working document for standards setting efforts to follow. This is a complex process that takes time, and Aylsworth — who is vp, technology at Warner Brothers Technical Operations — estimated that the standard is at least a year and a half away.

Pretty cool stuff, but honestly…can you ever really see this happening in the home market? I mean the bottom line is that it’s still technology based on wearing goofy glasses. But I could be wrong. So what do you think?