Acer To Launch 3D Notebook In October?

An anonymous reader writes "Acer is planning to announce a 3D notebook computer by end of October. If Acer indeed comes out with a 3D laptop then it'll be the world's first manufacturer to do so. The most interesting thing about Acer's machine is that it requires no special glasses. The 15.6-inch notebook features built-in software which can convert regular 2D movies to 3D and directly support 3D movies." Update: 06/08 23:18 GMT by T : According to the linked story, the no-glasses version is still in the works; the current iteration does still require special glasses.

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Been done.

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CSI already has these. I know because I saw it on TV. They were also able to get High Res photos out of a .5MB security camera and spin it around in 3D.

WTH is a 3D Laptop???

[Itninja]

Are all the other laptops on the market existing in only two dimensions? I am pretty sure all laptops are currently three dimensional.

Re:WTH is a 3D Laptop???

[PopeRatzo]

I would love a 2 - dimensional laptop. I envision something like a sheet of paper that accepts input from my fingertips or from a stylus or from a virtual keyboard.

Don't even worry about being able to fold it or roll it. If I can just slip it into a folder among sheets of regular paper.

Yes, I know that a sheet of paper is still 3D, but I've been waiting for the electronic "paper" for like 15 years now. I remember when I worked for a university as a director of computing and went out to Cupertino for a week. This is back when Apple was still interested in the educational market, so they took real good care of us, put us up in a nice bed and breakfast. But no hookers, damn it.

Anyway, they had some spooky Apple hardware developer talk to us about the things they were planning and told us we'd definitely have electronic paper by "2001". I always thought that guy might have been on 'shrooms or something equally entheogenic. When I asked him about the Newton, he developed a slight, but noticeable eye-twitch. My guess is that today that very hardware developer is working at a Potbelly's sandwich shop after completing court-ordered rehab.

Anyway, if anybody from Apple is reading this: Stop fooling around with the fucking iPhones and get me my iPaper! Or ePaper, or whatever you want to call it.

"convert regular 2D movies to 3D"

[John Hasler]

Bullshit.

Finally, a laptop not from Flatland!

[techmuse]

I'm glad that they are going to be shipping 3 dimensional laptops. Those 2 dimensional laptops that I've been using are really inconvenient. The screen and the keyboard are on the same plane, and you can't push the buttons at all, because that would require a third dimension. Even worse, my 2 dimensional laptop keeps falling through infinitely thin slots, and cut my arm off once when it fell perpendicularly to the floor while my arm was in the way. It might be 2D, but it has mass after all, so it has an infinitely sharp edge. Apple made a big deal out of the Macbook Air being .25" thick at its thinnest point. That's nothing. My 2D laptop has 0 thickness!

Summary grossly incorrect.

[Itninja]

From TFA:

"Currently, users still need to wear stereoscopic glasses for the 3D to be effective, however, Acer is developing a model without the need for glasses, although it still has quiet a few technological obstacles to overcome, Kan noted."

Suddenly, that 'most interesting thing' isn't that interesting at all.

Re:Summary grossly incorrect.

[lastomega7]

"A few technological obstacles..."
All they have to do is get the whole 3D thing working.

Sharp produced a 3D laptop in 2005

[Anonymous Coward]

Sharp produced a 3D laptop in early 2005.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/115348/sharps_3d_notebook.html

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/042253

with a no-glasses display, even. I saw one at a conference expo,
it worked pretty well for molecular graphics/viz stuff. But they never
caught on.

Hmm... Possibly something like...

[denzacar]

Fotowoosh?

Highly unlikely that it could work in a way acceptable for viewing movies. Cardboard cutouts instead of actual 3D at best...