By the efforts and activities of all of our members, our consortium will celebrate its third year.
Today, it is the first meeting of this year, and I would like to reconfirm the basic parts of the 3D Consortium activities.
The 3D market, that is, hardware, software, and contents services, engage spirally and markets are being formed. I think all of our members agree that this is our activity concept and they also agree to the significance of our activities.
This Consortium celebrates its third year, and is now the mother organization including more than 100 executive and regular members and more than 70 associate members. Because all of our members are developing activities by setting the direction of those activities, I really feel that the interest and expectations of 3D are great.
When taking a look back on the two years from the inauguration of this Consortium in 2003, we have been continuing activities by dwelling on systems to diffuse the 3D business, including technical development, contents development, and safety guidelines and confirming the origin all the time. We have also strongly been promoting global activities to form the wave of the 3D business.
About this year 2005, we are planning to reinforce activities with three view points and share in spreading the new 3D businesses.
The first view point is contents.
We use Creators' Lounge, aimed at the improvement of creators' three-dimensional thinking and the bridge between creators and members, as the engine with which to focus on developing contents including amusement, and utility that can only be provided by 3D through the cooperation with media and related associations.
The second view point is the enhancement of educational campaigns and promotional activities.
We actively promote cooperation with related organizations. Among them, it is important to communicate the understanding and perception of a new 3D to the general public.
The third view point is the further enhancement of overseas business cultivation and the spread of our activities worldwide.
We look forward to continued support from all of our members.
Now, we would like to describe two major perspectives in terms of creating a turning point of the times.
First, these days, we are in the middle of a paradigm shift "from paper culture to electronic display culture."
On one hand, the characteristics of paper are superior to those of electronic displays, and on the other hand, the characteristics of electronic displays are superior to those of paper. However, I think 3D stereoscopic expression will be the key element of the future paradigm shift.
Secondly, the possibilities when we obtain 3D are expanding in various fields.
I mentioned the comparison between paper culture and electronic display culture, but when shifting to the electronic display culture, it is not possible to talk about new possibilities and dreams that go beyond paper culture only by means of characteristics.
For example, in terms of education and learning, there is a growing awareness that 3D has the upper hand in intuitive understanding. Recently, research on effects achieved by 3D in education is beginning in Illinois, USA.
In the worlds of medicine and science, new 3D expressions are spreading in the point of more accurate understanding.
Also, I think that the possibility of 3D will produce a new view of the world regarding how we express sensitivity including in the world of amusements.
In future activities, we are planning to communicate the utilities of 3D from new aspects to society, and create a turning point of the times by cooperation with all of our members, based on the background of proven data by research. Such utilities will include the use of 3D in the field of education, dementia in the field of medicine, utilities which use 3D in the field of dementia treatment, and utilities from the aspect of health, such as eye stretching and vision improvement.
Finally, I will introduce the hot news of Sharp Corporation.
Sharp has understood that the popularization of the 3D platform in the market is one element to live up to all of our members' expectations. Consequently, a 3D personal computer and 3D monitor were commercialized last year, too.
Sharp will launch the new product "PC - AL3DH" as a 3D personal computer in March. Today, Sharp will issue the press release to introduce the new product to all of our members instantaneously.
Sharp would like to actively spread out the flow of hardware and software that are expanding spirally based on the platform in the future, too, and would be so pleased if you could use the new product.
Thank you very much for coming to this general meeting today.
July 28 - August 11, 2014
