Samsung’s new Odyssey monitor lets you play games in glasses-free 3D

Samsung has announced a caller Odyssey gaming show lineup astatine gamescom that uses eye-tracking exertion to person 2D visuals into glasses-free 3D. The Odyssey 3D is acceptable for a planetary merchandise “within this year” according to Samsung, and volition let users to “seamlessly power betwixt 2D and 3D modes” based connected penchant — which whitethorn tempt folks who are funny astir 3D gaming, but apprehensive to commit.

The Odyssey 3D is Samsung’s archetypal 3D gaming monitor, having archetypal teased a conception show astatine CES earlier this year. It’ll beryllium disposable successful 27- oregon 37-inch sizes and features a 4K QLED sheet with a 165Hz refresh rate, alongside a 1-millisecond effect clip and enactment for AMD FreeSync. Both monitors besides see a azygous DisplayPort 1.4 and 2 HDMI 2.1 ports for connectivity, and a tilting, height-adjustable basal to guarantee you tin champion presumption it to acquisition 3D content.

The glasses-free 3D is achieved by combining a lenticular lens — specialized hardware that tin nonstop antithetic images to each oculus — with a built-in oculus tracking camera, and presumption mapping to continuously set for extent perception. Acer uses a akin strategy successful its ain SpatialLabs laptops and monitors. The resulting Stereoscopic 3D tin lone beryllium viewed by 1 idiosyncratic astatine a time, but that’s hardly an contented for gamers, and my ain experiences with the exertion person near a bully impression: it’s truly amusive to spot things jumping retired astatine you without having to deterioration peculiar glasses.

One happening that’s missing is the price. We’ve reached retired to Samsung to spot if pricing accusation is available, but if Acer’s products (and the historical pricing connected Samsung’s Odyssey lineup) are immoderate indication, the Odyssey 3D offerings won’t travel cheap.