PITTSBURGH -- It sounds more sci-fi than scientific, but the next time someone goes to get a driver's license, they could have their irises scanned as well.

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Hollywood has been doing it for years -- Tom Cruise having his irises identified in 2002's "Minority Report."

Going even further back, Arnold Schwarzenegger's skeleton being scanned while running through a portal in 1987's "Running Man."

But the future of Hollywood has finally arrived in the real world of 2009 inside a building on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University where 10 Ph.D. students remain hard at work on cameras that actually find a person's eye and identify them.

"It will go into patrol mode and almost like a security guard it will start sweeping around for other faces," said Marios Savvides, director of Biometrics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Researchers are taking a flat image and within seconds re-creating a person's face in 3-D.

"Right now, there are a lot of images that are not usable, and you can't do matching because they are not at the right pose, so a lot of criminals, a lot of terrorists get away. How do we fix that? This is it!" said Savvides.