One time in fifth grade, my class won some school-wide contest. As a prize, we got 3D glasses and watched a VHS of a first-person POV roller coaster ride. So that, like, it was as if we were actually riding a roller coaster. it was incredibly lame.

This is what I think of when I think of 3D: crappy glasses from my childhood. But, according to the some dude named David Hill that works for FOX (via Barry Horn), 3D is going to blow our minds.

“Maybe if HD (high definition) had not come along, the internet might have taken over but I don’t think HD is necessarily going to save television. I have always thought that HD is just a stepping stone to 3D,” he says.

“3D will change everything and it is not that far away from being reality.”

Hill is among those who believe that 3D television that does not require viewers to don awkward 1950s-style glasses, will be on the market within a few years.

He has already begun experimenting with 3D broadcasts, renting the cameras from Titanic director James Cameron, who has been leading the Hollywood charge to 3D.

“The results have been fantastic,” he says.

“For instance, I think it is going to save the sport of boxing. We did a very ordinary bout from one of the Indian casinos (in California) and it was unbelievable. You are right in there in the ring with these guys.”

I’m thinking of some other things I would enjoy watching in 3D other than sports. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) You know what I’m getting at here. Yeah, that’s right: cooking shows. Mixing ingredients in 3D would really do it for me, I think.