MUMBAI: Imagine that you are watching a cookery show on television. How about the tempting smell from the studio entering your drawing room? If Japan turns out to be successful in its 3D television project, which it plans to finish by 2020, this wouldn't be just an imagination.
 
 

According to a Reuters report, Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020 as part of a broad national project that will bring together researchers from the government, technology companies and academia. The innovation would allow viewers to view high-definition images in 3D from any angle, in addition to being able to touch and smell the objects being projected upwards from a screen parallel to the floor.

Researchers are banking on ultrasound, electric stimulation and wind pressure technologies to drive the revolutionary concept of 3D television. The estimated budget of the project is Rs 1 billion.
 
 

Researchers from top tech companies such as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. are members of a committee that published an interim report on the project last month.