Toshiba UK will begin selling what it calls the first glasses-free 3D laptop next month. The awkwardly named Qosmio F750 will allow viewing of both two- and three dimensional content such as games and movies. But the drawback is that only one person at a time can enjoy the 3D effects by sitting directly in front of it.
The Qosmio is part of a growing slate of glasses-free 3D products hitting the market, from Nintendo's recent 3DS portable game player to smartphones such as HTC's 3D 4G, which debuted this month and several televisions, including Toshiba's REGZA GL1.
Toshiba is also marketing the Qosmio F750 to developers and other creators, noting that product concepts, architecture plans, medical information or educational tools "can be viewed with unparalleled realism and greater depth."
The Qosmio F750 is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia Geforce GT540M graphics processor with a SATA 640 gigabyte hard drive with 6GB DDR3 (1333MHz) random access memory. It also has a Blu-ray XL re-recordable drive and runs Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, with Wi-Fi 802.11 and Bluetooth 3.0.
In its hands-on review of a test model, Engadget said the "the videos we saw were pretty mouthwatering -- at least once our eyes and brain adjusted to the 3D effect" and "The eye-tracking system was remarkably quick." But reviewer Sharif Sakr noted that the single-user 3D limit was "a major downside."
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