The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition will launch with stereoscopic 3D for “over 50 popular games”
The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition was announced during Acer’s virtual Next@Acer event, alongside a handful of other new gaming gear from the Predator and Nitro ranges. It’s by far the most ambitious of the lot, incorporating the stereoscopic 3D tech that Acer first introduced on their creative-focused ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition notebook last year.
The SpatialLabs system works by presenting two images on the screen and using eye-tracking sensors (built into the screen’s top bezel) to keep one image refracted towards your left eye and one towards your right. Your brain then interprets the combined images as a single 3D image, which I think is how eyes just work when looking at real objects? Maybe. I’m not a biologist.
For this 3D-fied Predator Helios 300, Acer are also crafting SpatialLabs TrueGame software, which includes custom 3D profiles for “over 50 popular games” and more to come in the future. Only one of these was confirmed during the show,Forza Horizon 5, though it will be perfectly possible to play others games in standard 2D instead. This allows them to run at a higher 4K resolution too – in 3D, each image is rendered at 1920x1080, for an overall 1920x2160 resolution.
Whatwillare the two new versions of the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE laptop. That stands for Special Edition, not SpatialLabs Edition, so there’s no 3D fanciness here – but the refreshed 14in model does get a choice of 90Hz, 2880x1880 OLED or 165Hz, 2560x1600 IPS displays to replace the old 1080p screen. The new 16in model, meanwhile, goes even faster with a 240Hz, 2560x1600 IPS display.
Two last Acer launches of note are the Predator XB273K LV and Nitro XV272U RV monitors. The Predator XB273K LV applies a 4K resolution to a mid-sized 27in IPS panel, so should look needle-sharp, and it doesn’t skimp on speed specs either: the refresh rate is 160Hz and grey-to-grey response time is apparently just 0.5ms, which would be outstanding for an IPS monitor if Acer really have pulled it off.
