![]() Since its release in late 2022, you’ve been able to play games on the Helios 300 SpatialLabs in something called “3D Plus”. It’s a shame there’s no support for Windows Hello IR facial recognition security, though, nor is there a fingerprint scanner.Īcer Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition review: How good is the 3D?īefore I get into the technical merits of the screen, let’s talk about 3D. It’s one of the best 720p laptop webcams I’ve come across. Image 8 of 11 The webcam is a basic 720p affair but does a surprisingly good job capturing bright and colourful images with impressively little noise. There’s a decent selection of ports, with a Gigabit Ethernet socket, USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 and 3.5mm audio port on the left edge, a pair of USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports on the right and Mini DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.1 and Thunderbolt 4 ports around the back, along with the DC power jack. It’s hardly a small laptop, but the 3kg weight and 360 x 275 x 28mm size are perfectly acceptable for a gaming laptop with a 15.6in screen, a serious cooling system and a 90Wh capacity battery. The outgoing ROG Strix SCAR 17 (2022), meanwhile, can be found for around £2,000 with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU, making it excellent value even if the display is only a 2.5K affair.Īcer Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition review: Design and build qualityĮxternally, the SpatialLabs Edition looks much like the standard edition of the Helios 300, right down to the solid, black aluminium body, the Predator logo on the lid and the LED light strip under the front deck. ![]() The Alienware x17 R2, for example, costs £2,650 – if you raise the specification to match the Helios 300 SpatialLabs – for a saving of nearly £1,000. Spending this sort of money in 2023 will get you one of the latest Raptor Lake and RTX 40-series laptops such as the Razer Blade 16 or the similarly specified Asus ROG Strix SCAR 16.Īlternatively, non-3D laptops with similar hardware will cost a lot less. Image 2 of 11 Is this good value? If you’re not bothered with 3D, the answer to that question, objectively, is no. When viewed, your brain perceives the images as a single scene, giving the perception of 3D depth. The system presents a pair of 2D images to the viewer, one to the left eye and the other to the right. ![]() The first thing to make clear is that stereoscopic 3D of the type used in the Helios 300 doesn’t require any kind of glasses. The Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition was launched in late 2022, but a major software update that was announced at CES 2023 in January has now dropped and promises to turn it from a curiosity into a product genuinely worth considering.Īcer Predator Helios 300 SpatialLabs Edition review: What you need to know ![]() Acer, though, in partnership with SpatialLabs, thinks it has the answer with its latest stereoscopic 3D system.Īimed primarily at professional creatives and modellers who actually need 3D, which is why the system first appeared on the creator-class Acer ConceptD 7 laptop, it was only a matter of time before the gaming possibilities got their moment in the sun. Has there ever been a technology more determined to answer a question that nobody has ever really asked than glasses-free 3D on a laptop? For more than 100 years, 3D has come and gone as the “next big thing” and even James Cameron hasn’t managed to make it stick.
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