Acer gaming laptop offers glasses-free 3D powered by an Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU
techradar.comAcer has revealed a smart new gaming laptop which boasts a neat trick in terms of a 3D screen that doesn’t require any clunky glasses, with a bunch of titles that’ll be supported by the hardware out of the gate.
The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition was shown off at the next@acer event, and it offers glasses-free 3D gaming using the SpatialLabs TrueGame app.
How does it work exactly? SpatialLabs utilizes an eye-tracking solution, along with a stereoscopic 3D screen, and real-time rendering tech, with pre-configured profiles for different games to help realize the required three-dimensional experience. Over 50 PC games will be supported in 3D mode at launch – these will be a mix of contemporary and classic offerings – with more to come down the line.
In terms of the actual hardware, that screen is a 15.6-inch 4K display with a liquid crystal lenticular lens optically bonded on top of it to create the 3D effect (you can switch back to 2D mode, with just the plain 4K panel, as needed).
Driving the Predator Helios 300 is a choice of Intel Alder Lake CPUs, up to Core i9 chips, backed with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile GPU, and 32GB of DDR5-4800 memory. Storage is provided courtesy of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 configuration.
This is a Windows 11 gaming laptop with Killer Wi-Fi 6E, and wired connectivity includes a Thunderbolt 4 port, alongside two USB 3.2 Gen2 connectors (and an HDMI 2.1 port).
For cooling, you get twin fans (including one 5th-gen AeroBlade fan, one of Acer’s nifty designs with extremely thin blades) and Acer CoolBoost tech to help keep internal temperatures in check.
How much will this little lot set you back? The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition (model PH315-55s) is priced at $3,400 in the US
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