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I can’t tell you my exact words when Lenovo’s 3D software first kicked in because this is a family magazine, but suffice to say that they were accompanied by a cackle of delighted laughter. This was all the more surprising as I’ve seen glassesfree 3D in action many times, most recently on Acer’s Predator Helios 3D 15 laptop (see issue 353, p56). Yet still I was taken aback: there, in front of me, on a 27in monitor, sat a 3D object.
You can read how the technology works on p92, so all I will say here is that an ingenious combination of lenticular lenses and eye-tracking technology allow the ThinkVision 27 3D to beam one set of images to your left eye and another to your right. There’s also the small matter of a 3D engine inside the monitor that removes much (but not all) of the
