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See me, Obi-Wan Kenobi: Scientists seek 3-D video

NEW YORK -- Scientists say they have taken a big step toward displaying live video in three dimensions - a technology far beyond 3-D movies and more like the "Star Wars" scene where a ghostly Princess Leia image pleads, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi." In that classic movie, the audience sees her back before a new camera perspective shows her face. Such a wraparound view of a moving image was just movie-trick fantasy in the 1977 film, but now?

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