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 glasses-free 3D in action many times, most recently on Acer’s Predator Helios 3D 15 laptop. Yet still I was taken aback: there, in front of me, on a 27in monitor, sat a 3D object.
How does it work? 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 load from the host PC.
