The world of trading cards is becoming a little more three-dimensional. In case you missed the articles in the "NEWS" portion of the Tuff Stuff site, Topps is offering a unique feature on its Topps Town site – something is calls 3-D Live virtual reality baseball cards.

The idea goes something like this. You know the Topps Town cards that are in packs of Series 1 Baseball? Well, you need to actually keep those cards. Oh, and buy a Web cam, if you don't already have one.

The next step is to visit the Topps Town site, enter the code on the card and then hold up the card to your Web cam. And then, according to Topps and this pretty cool video, the player on the card will come to life as a 3-D hologram from the card.

Think Princess Leia's message via R2-D2 in the Star Wars movies.

Now if this works as advertised, it would be pretty darn cool. Especially when you consider that you can then play 3-D games with this card.

This sounds fun, and something that would get kids into cards more. While it's like a video game, kids have to buy the cards to get the cards that allow access to the games.

I think the only thing better would be to have a virtual reality helmet where you swipe the card and then you can either bat or pitch against said player in a virtual world. Now that would be fun!  

If anyone has the tools as their disposal to give this 3-D Live technology a whirl, I'd love to hear about the results.