On the theme of the effect of 3D images on the human body, the seminar involved a thorough analysis and explanation of how people read the guidelines on 3D images and how they use them. Mr. Shojiro Nagata gave a demo of contents and a lecture on "the practice of high resolution autostereoscopic imaging displays". The number of attendees at the seminar was 44 members and 71 others.

This is a report on the current status of the 3D Consortium activities. Following the "General Meeting on the Establishment of the 3D Consortium" held on March 4th this year, a schedule of activities involving study sessions was set up, namely in April the "Commemorative Seminar of the Establishment" and in May the services/contents study session", in June the technology study session, in July the safety/guidelines study session and three study sessions. By holding today's afety/guidelines study session, we are finally at the stage of turning the first corner in the race.

Following the study session chaired by the technology section in June, 2 new companies became standard members of the Consortium and 3 became associate members.
Joining as standard members are Fuji Xerox and Red Hat. (Both companies are to encourage the spread of Linux throughout the world.) Joining as associate members are Professor Matsuyama of Kyoto University (also a trustee of Kyoto University's Graduate School), Mr. Sei Akihide (Head of Administration, Personal Computer Users'Application Technology Association) and Tani Chizuka. Please put your hands together to welcome the new members. (Applause.)

The joining of these new members means that the Consortium is now the mother organization of a total of 121 members including 103 companies and organizations and 18 individuals. If we look at the 103 companies and organizations in terms of the type of business, there are 5 companies relating to medicine, education and science, 8 companies relating to the Media and broadcasting, 10 companies relating to authoring tools and viewer software, so as we go on to create the so-called 3D market, we believe the distribution of members will be extremely balanced.

We are planning to hold on September 10th this year seminars for the 3 sections to announce their activities to each other but we are initiating working groups under the umbrella of each section. We would like everyone to work together to ensure good results before we hold the first year summary of the Consortium's planned time period for activities(2 years) at the beginning of next year.
In parallel with internal activities, we have also become involved in external activities with a view to raising the Consortium's presence. In July, the Consortium exhibited at various exhibitions including the "3D Image Conference 2003", "the GIS Conference 2003", "Digital Contents World 2003 in Hiroshima", "the Circulatory Organs Image Technology Research Meeting" and the Consortium attended seminars. Plans for future activities include the "3D fan entertainment seminar" in Osaka at the end of August, the "Asia Design International Conference" in October, the "High Reality Display Forum" in November.

Our approach to the overseas markets has two aspects. Using the Consortium as a venue for getting feedback on the latest information of the 3D market overseas, using it in everyone's business, relaying abroad the status of activities in Japan and increasing everybody's business opportunities worldwide. The presentation of the Consortium at SIGGRAPH in San Diego and the Virtual Reality International Conference in Luxembourg have raised the interest of numbers of companies and people in universities. We would like to open branches in Europe and the US to follow this up.

Finally we would like to introduce the key phrases at the presentations in Europe and the US. The various puzzle pieces relating to 3D already exist. We will gather those pieces and complete the so-called 3D market jigsaw puzzle. That is the mission of the 3D Consortium. In order to make the jigsaw puzzle for creating a market, we want to gather together the puzzle pieces of the know-how that all the members have by exchanging information on a daily basis. We would be grateful for your continued support.