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PRICE View, £999 (£1,199 inc VAT); View Pro, £1,082 (£1,299 inc VAT) from acer.com
Yes, you’ve heard it all before. 3D screens are the future, the next big thing, until they become the forgotten technology for another decade. After all, who wants the faff of wearing glasses for two hours to watch a film or play a game?
Then there’s the other argument. That VR, in the form of wraparound headsets such as the Sony PlayStation VR2 (see p68), provides a far more immersive experience than a 3D screen ever can.
I’m not here to advocate for 3D screens as a whole. But what I can say is that having used the Acer SpatialLabs View and View Pro for many hours, this is 3D vision that goes many times beyond what you may remember from the Nintendo 3DS or the 3D TVs that were being pushed in the early 2010s. The technology is genuinely