Asus sidesteps VR headsets with glasses-free 3D laptops - Inverse

Forget the bulky VR headsets. With Asus’ 2 latest laptops, you won’t request to strap connected an full VR headset to get a speedy glimpse astatine a 3D exemplary you’re moving on. At CES 2023, Asus announced 2 laptops with its Spatial Vision exertion wherever its OLED displays tin make a 3D image.

The Spatial Vision tech volition beryllium disposable connected Asus’ ProArt Studiobook 16 3D OLED and its Vivobook Pro 16 3D OLED. The displays connection a quick-and-dirty mode to presumption a 3D exemplary with the propulsion of a button. It’s astir apt not arsenic close oregon reliable arsenic viewing the 3D exemplary done a VR headset, but it’s surely overmuch much convenient.

Specs to lucifer — Asus says the Spatial Vision displays person a lenticular lens furniture laid connected apical of the OLED panel, pairing it with eye-tracking exertion to marque definite the 3D exemplary comes retired correctly. In elemental terms: the 3D screens enactment similar bigger versions of the Nintendo 3DS.

Even erstwhile you’re not utilizing the 3D feature, some the ProArt Studiobook and Vivobook Pro inactive marque for decent enactment laptops. The ProArt Studiobook has a 16-inch 3.2K OLED show with a 120Hz refresh rate, powered by a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13980HX processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPU. You tin besides fold the laptop wholly level and usage a stylus connected the haptic touchpad.

The Vivobook Pro volition apt beryllium the astir affordable of the 2 but has the aforesaid 16-inch display, Intel processor, and Nvidia GPU. You tin spec the Vivobook Pro with up to 64 GB of DDR5 RAM and up to 2TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD. Both of the laptops volition person Thunderbolt 4 ports, but the Vivobook volition besides person an SD paper reader.

Try earlier you bargain — Asus says it plans connected releasing these 3D laptops successful the 2nd 4th of 2023. While the ProArt Studiobook’s 3D capabilities are impressive, it isn’t without immoderate stuttering and eye-tracking lag, according to immoderate early testers.

The exertion is inactive reasonably new, but determination are different companies experimenting with it truthful far. Acer antecedently announced its Spatial Labs tech and yet incorporated it into 1 of its Predator gaming laptops. As for Asus, it hasn’t revealed the pricing for either the ProArt Studiobook oregon Vivobook Pro, but we should expect a premium for the 3D exertion included.

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