On March 18, 2010 Daily Egyptian ran a story about a professor who is studying how video game players learn… 
Christian Sebastian Loh turns on his 72-inch liquid plasma, high-definition rear projector TV in order to operate his Alienware 5500 desktop computer to play video games in 3-D.Loh does not play these games himself; he studies the way people play the games. He received a $70,000 grant from the U.S. Army in 2009 to study how video games help people learn.
The grant is called the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, and allowed Loh to purchase the material necessary to pay for virtual environment equipment that allows him to study people who play video games.
Loh, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Services, said when the university found out he was buying an Alienware computer they were a little skeptical. “They asked me, ‘Why are you buying a toy?’” …
Note: It would appear that the 72-inch rear-display Digial Plasma Liquid (DLP) TV is really a crowd-puller! Not only have the 3 local/regional newspapers all reported about the Plasma TV (and the DURIP grant), the local TV and Radio stations have also send reporters to interview me about it. Wow!
V-Lab, 72" 3D-capable DLP and avatars