Lenovo introduced two new show options on the IFA present in Berlin: a 3D show for content material creation, and a pair of micro-OLED goggles for consuming that content material (or the rest) on a pair of personal screens that you may strap to your head.
The Lenovo ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor is a 27-inch IPS show that may ship at a whopping $2,999 starting in January, whereas the Lenovo Legion Glasses will price $329 and ship in October. Lenovo additionally introduced the Legion 9i, a liquid-cooled laptop computer, and the Legion Go, its first entry into the hand-held Home windows gaming market.
By now, the idea of a lenticular show may not be that uncommon: in spite of everything, Acer introduced one with the Predator Helios 300 halfway by 2022, and Asus someway mixed a lenticular show with a 120Hz OLED contained in the StudioBook 16 3D OLED. However each firms featured them of their high-end, premium merchandise for creators, not common customers.
Seeing them, nonetheless, is one other factor fully. The Lenovo ThinkVision 27 3D tracks your eyes, in order that it is aware of the best way to mission half of its 4K display screen into every eye, to supply the 3D impact. (With out the 3D impact turned on, it’s a regular 4K show with 3840×2160 decision; with 3D on, every eye sees a 1920×2160 display screen.) You’ll want your app to assist the show, although Lenovo has each an 3D Explorer app in addition to an SDK for supporting third-party software program.
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The display screen undoubtedly produced a 3D impact with out the necessity for glasses. Nonetheless, as an alternative of the picture floating in entrance of you, it was “contained” contained in the monitor, by no means projecting past the floor of the show itself, with a discipline of view of about 40 cm and a “depth” of between 60 and 100 cm. For the reason that refresh fee is 60Hz, you’ll see the picture refresh at 30Hz out of every eye. In whole, it places out 310 nits of brightness in both mode.
In accordance with Lenovo, there are a variety of the way to carry out 3D content material creation, designing the property utilized in video video games and the like. Sporting a specialised machine just like the HoloLens, for instance, is a technique, although it may be fatiguing. However the ThinkVision may also be flipped into a regular “2D” mode, which operates as a regular 4K show. Right here, the ThinkVision 27 offers sufficient coloration accuracy to function a content-creation machine.
Curiously, this is without doubt one of the few shows that truly ships with {hardware} necessities: to activate the 3D functionality, you’ll want a PC with not less than a Seventh-gen Core i5 in addition to an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 and 16GB of RAM.
The ThinkVision 27 3D additionally features a broad vary of ports: a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort 1.4, and, apparently, a USB-C enter. The latter helps Excessive Bandwidth Price 3 (HBR3), a type of compression that may drive a show from only a USB-C output, offered that the laptop computer helps it.
Is the ThinkVision 3D going to usher in 3D shows on to your desktop, similar to the 3D TVs of yore? In all probability not. However what firms like Lenovo are exhibiting is that, for the suitable software and the suitable consumer, they’ll make sense.
Lenovo Legion Glasses: strap a show to your face
We all know just a little bit much less concerning the Lenovo Legion Glasses. As an alternative of a publicly-viewable show just like the ThinkVision 27 3D, the Legion Glasses are all about privateness: every display screen reveals the equal of a 1080p micro-OLED display screen to every eye, with a closed eyecup that solely you may see.
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Small audio system are mounted contained in the headset, so to hear the audio of the film or TV present that you just’re watching. The Legion Glasses are wired, utilizing a USB-C cable to drive and energy them. They’re not restricted to only Lenovo units or simply Home windows, nonetheless. The Legion Glasses are suitable with Home windows, Android, and MacOS — together with the brand new Lenovo Legion Go handheld launched as we speak.
