Acer has now launched the Aspire 5738D 3D, an ordinary laptop with a screen capable of showing 3D using polarized glasses.

Unlike for instance the Samsung Geforce 3DVision screen, it does not rely on high refresh rates and active shutter glasses with battery to operate. Instead the screen (and software) from TriDef merges the two images needed for stereoscopic 3D and display every other horisontal line with different polarization filter. This means you still have to wear glasses, but something like the ones you get in the 3D cinemas nowadays. Without glasses the picture looks blurry when 3D effects are on. Unfortunately, the software so far only supports Windows 7 and games made for DirectX 9 (!)

I haven't had the opportunity to try this laptop, but at IFA I had the opportunity to watch a TV with the same screen technology. You would normally think that displaying on every other horisontal line would be showing black lines, but from what I have tried this is most impressing and is very comfortable on your eyes.

One users first experiences with the laptop: 

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See also: 3D Vision Blog's first experiences

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