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VIEWERS of next year’s soccer World Cup in Germany could find themselves watching the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D television system.

The German firm Grundig has developed a system capable of displaying 3D pictures to people sitting in different parts of a room, without the need for special glasses.

“We will have the prototype product by the end of 2006 and 3D TVs and DVD players on the market in 2007,” says Thomas Haida, Grundig’s director of product development.

The Grundig system, developed with German companies X3D Technologies and 3D Image Processing,…

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