Sony working on a 3D camera for consumers

The 3D camera under development would fill a missing piece in the content chain by allowing consumers to make their own 3D images and movies.

Several competitors are also pursuing 3D camera technology. Panasonic recently demonstrated a digital video camera that can record 3D movies and FujiFilm is already selling a camera that can take 3D pictures and video.

The FinePix Real 3D W1 went on sale last year and has two lenses and two 10-megapixel image sensors. When the shutter button is pushed each takes an image of the same scene from a slightly different point of view, and the camera then stores them in the MP format for stills and 3D-AVI format for movies.