The Hollywood Flick Avatar made waves through all cinemas due to it’s cutting edge camera work and especially the 3D version of the movie. We all know, Avatar 3D was hugely talked about not only during it’s release but also many weeks later than the release. Everyone enjoyed watching Avatar and especially the 3D version. The charisma it left in the eyes of the viewers was simply mind-blowing. Still there were many unlucky ones (like me) who saw only the 2D version of Avatar (i.e. without the fancy goggles).
Whether you saw Avatar in 2D or 3D is not the question, The question is can Educational Content be made as engrossing as Avatar 3D? Well many schools in India today have multimedia (Audio Video systems) to teach the children. Lessons such as how induction motors work or how biological processes happen are very well presented to students using multimedia. And the fact that children enjoy doing things that does not involve books is something that everyone knows very well 
Multimedia creates a long lasting effect of a lesson in the mind of children the only reason being the practical stuff they see in these multimedia content. So can this multimedia content be delivered via 3D in India? If you think I am talking foolish then you better re-think yourself as the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) and Semi-conductor company Texas Instruments (TI) are working together to bring an Avatar-like experience at schools. TI has plans on offering its ‘DLP’ technology to schools that promises to enhance the visual experience with higher contrast and richer colours.
TI is also keen to work with India based education content providers such as Everonn, Educomp and NIIT and the Ahmedabad-based content provider Designmate, which has a large library of 3D content. But given the current scenario of education in India, 3D adoption in schools seem to be a distant feat to achieve. The schools that are located in cities, even most of them do not have basic multimedia facility. And the ones who have taken to multimedia recently won’t obviously want to switch to 3D so soon.
The Bottomline: Just think it this way – How many Cinemas in India show any 3D capable movie in 3D? You will have the answer yourself to the question – How well will the Indian education marry the 3D?
Why does everyone talk about 3-d and techno BS instead of the story and the message? That’s what’s important.
The story line is paramount to our time that draws attention to the exact thing the US and it’s imperialistic drive to dominating world resources at all cost. When the middle east wants us out of their world.
The excuses verblized by the powers that be for invading Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and now Yemen have only to do with oil and don’t you think a rats ass that it has anything to do with saving people.
Debjit, you brought an interesting point here: Are our education system capable of adopting something like 3D content ? Well it’s surely a distant dream, where most of the schools today are not able to fulfill the criteria of basic play ground and good infrastructure and computer education ..introduction of 3D content seems ancillary.