I had a chance friday to speak with the CEO of Real D, Joshua Greer, whose company acquired StereoGraphics back in February, hoping to get a good idea of how comitted the new company was to maintaining its support of the CAD and scientific markets.

Given the hardcore entertainment background of Joshua Greer and the other co-founder of Real D (Greer worked with James Cameron on the filmmaker’s Ghosts of the Abyss 3D film), I was concerned that the new company’s focus would be switching mostly in that direction.

But during our conversation, I came to realize that Greer is as passionate about the vibrance and reality a stereoscopic view of both entertainment and technical content, and that he was particularly proud of the company’s recent announcement that SolidWorks would be including support for the StereoGraphics products in the next version of its software.

If you thought stereoscopic 3D was dead or stagnant—for both CAD and the movies—guess again. This is just one of several recent stereo product announcements that I think portend a resurgence of this 150-year-old technology. I’ll tell you about the latest stereoscopic display system I saw at National Manufacturing Week later this week.