Acer reveals glasses-free 3D laptop and a weird (but beastly) gaming PC

Acer's ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop showing a 3D model on screen

(Image credit: Acer)

Acer has revealed a bunch of new products at its next@Acer event, including a powerful laptop with a spectacles-free 3D display, a newfound range of Predator gaming PCs, and fresh additions to the green-friendly Vero series.

Let's start with Acer's ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop which is a new workstation notebook aimed at creatives and devs, with the central attraction being a stereoscopic 3D video display that doesn't call for any glasses to experience that 3D effect.

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This is expedited by SpatialLabs which is a entourage of reveal and sensory technical school allowing for real-prison term translation of glasses-free 3D, complete with support for all common 3D file formats.

The basic idea present is a dream laptop for 3D modeling, with the user healthy to view 3D creations in their full three-dimensional glory while they're being worked on (2D content, like photos or videos, or straight-grained video calls, can also be turned into stereoscopic 3D using keen AI tech).

As you might imagine, to facilitate this, the ConceptD 7 packs some considerably powerful hardware.

This workstation can be equipped with up to an RTX 3080 mobile GPU, and that's matched with 11th-gen Intel H-Series CPUs (adequate a Core i7). Memory tops out at 64GB with rising to 2TB of NVMe PCIe SSD storage.

The 3D display is a 4K panel which is Pantone-validated and boasts affirm for 100% of the Adobe RGB semblance gamut (advantageous information technology benefits from a Delta E<2 colouration truth rating, to boot).

How is the 3D effect realized, you might equal wondering? There's a pair of cameras above the display that track the user's eye positions and bowel movement of the eyes and head, sticking two slenderly different images based connected that tracking, via an natural philosophy lens bonded to the screen.

The remainder result is a convincing 3D effect rendered in real-clock time and allowing the user to look around the object in its engorged troika-dimensions, with no need to don any cumbrous spectacles.

Too as the launch of the ConceptD 7, Acer also declared a new 15.6-inch pose of the (redeemable) ConceptD 3 Ezel, and a version of the 16-in (clamshell) ConceptD 3 with a 16:10 display.

The ConceptD 7 (model number CN715-73G) comes kayoed in European Union in December opening at €3,599 (about £3,050), with the ConceptD 3 Ezel (CC315-73G) down later this month starting at €2,099 (about £1,780). The ConceptD 3 (CN316-73G) will likewise arrive in October starting at €1,799 (about £1,530).

Over in the US, the ConceptD 3 leave go far in January 2022 starting at $1,699.99.

Predator Orion 7000

Acer besides unveiled new Predator Orion 7000 desktop gaming PCs which characteristic Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, and of course these won't personify forbidden yet – 12th-gen processors haven't even been launched – but the machines will be arriving at the start of next year.

Along with Alder Lake chips, unlocked for overclocking, the Orion 7000 models bequeath whir adequate Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card game, and adequate to 64GB of DDR5-4000 system RAM.

And then, those are some pretty sea wolf components on board – there's too Intel Grampus 2.5G LAN, incidentally – but there are just about stranger choices here, too. Storage options may include a dua of M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs (up to 1TB each), but the inclusion of non one – only cardinal – 3.5-edge in SATA3 hard drives (up to 3TB apiece) seems bad odd in such a very cutting-edge PC. Totally we can hand over is a shrug of the shoulders thereon one (there's also a 2.5-edge in hot-trade ram down bay tree, by the way).

The PC case looks good, yet keeps things minimalistic, with glass side panels, ARGB lighting, and a nifty cooling system featuring trio Vulture FrostBlade 2.0 fans (cardinal at the front, one at the behind), plus an all-in-one and only liquid cooler for the processor.

These Predator Hunte 7000 (P07-640) PCs will be out in Europe come Q1 of 2022, starting at €2,199 (about £1,870, $2,540), with handiness following in the The States in Q2.

Acer Aspire Vero laptop on a desk — (Image credit: Acer)

Vero's green heroes

Finally, Acer unconcealed new Vero products which are designed to be eco-sociable, including the Acer Aspire Vero (AV15-51). This laptop computer has a physical body which is 30% PCR (Post-Consumer Recycled) plastic, and keycaps which are 50% PCR.

The notebook also comes in 100% recyclable packaging, and in fact the box can actually be used as a improvised laptop stand (not a long-handled-terminus solution, we'd add). The design of the machine is also focused on making it very repairable and easy to upgrade, serving to boost the longevity of the laptop, which is besides great for the surround. (That's something which other companies are trying to do as well, such as Microsoft, every bit we've seen in recent multiplication).

American Samoa for the computer hardware on board, the Acer Shoot for Vero sports Intel's 11th-gen mobile processors, co-ed Iris Xe Artwork, WI-Fi 6, and a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display (and that cover is 99% reclaimable, incidentally). VeroSense software on-board helps users select a mode of surgical procedure for better battery life and energy-efficiency in general.

The Acer Aim Vero will get on sales event in Europe later in October start at €799 (about £680), with the laptop hitting shelves concluded in the US in November starting at $699.99.

It'll be joined past a number of opposite eco-friendly Vero products including the Genus Acer TravelMate Vero business sector laptop with look-alike green credentials and 11th-gen Intel CPUs (up to Core i7), A well as a Vero mini-PC for the enterprise. There's too the Acer Vero BR277, a Full HD supervise with a chassis made from concluded 50% PCR plastic.

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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, diverse other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of ternion decades, and writes books in his spare time (his introduction novel - 'I Know What You Did Last Supper' - was published aside Hachette UK in 2013).