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Lenovo is testing glasses-free computers with a ring controller.
www.theverge.comLenovo’s new ThinkBook 3D Laptop Concept and Hybrid Dimensional 34-inch Curved Monitor Concept, announced at Mobile World Congress 2025, use directional backlighting and head tracking to simultaneously show 2D and 3D content without glasses. An accompanying AI Ring concept can be worn to control them with gesture-based spatial controls.
It sounds like Leia’s tech, but Lenovo reps would not confirm during my short demo.
Maybe 3D is coming back? (I doubt it.)
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No, but it was my last
Man, for a thing that sold 75 million units and ended up with a pretty great game library some people really latched on to being mad about it at launch and just never moved past that.
It may well be the console with the biggest gap between performance and performative negative opinion online ever. I would have said neck and neck with the PSP a few years ago, but it really feels like that got reassessed after the fact through emulation.
I’m not mad, I was simply disappointed enough by the original 3DS that I didn’t want to spend more money on a different version of it.
Is it somehow important to you that people like it?
Not particularly, but if we’re discussing the idea of bringing this display technology back I do have a vested interest in knee-jerk rejection of its use on the 3DS not misrepresenting the potential.
This is the absolute best way to do stereo 3D, at least for single user devices, it works and it’s built on well understood technology. I get that people were mad at the OG 3DS, mostly as part of a bit of a mob mentality memetic rejection of 3D TVs, but this is genuinely cool tech I would like to have access to again.
Me too, man, I miss the 3DS era. I need to go back and replay A Link Between Worlds, at least.
Man, yeah. Mario 3D World, the Sega M2 3D conversions of retro games…
I don’t think the native PC software support would be there for something like this, but at least having a viable way to properly emulate the 3DS without having to rig something with a VR headset would be great.
Not sure why you’re bringing this up in a discussion where multiple people have given other reasons for “being mad” (or, more objectively, disliking) the OG 3DS.
You’re acting in pretty bad faith.
The only thing I’ve seen mentioned is the bad stability of the stereoscopy and the narrow viewing angle of the original model, which was solved with the same eye tracking solution we see here. The entire conversation is spawning from my surprise at people seemingly being unaware that happened or assuming it hadn’t worked.
There was legitimate criticism at launch about the initial library, but obviously we’re not arguing about that here (and it definitely got corrected over time).
Yes, and I’ve explained to you that many people probably never tried the fixed version. So why say “people are just repeating what they’re heard about 3D TVs”? You’re attributing an infantilizing explanation to all those who disagree, when a more logical and direct explanation was already given.
Was it?
Look, you seem very keen on having an argument about this, but this conversation so far boils down to:
-3DS did this well. -No, it didn’t. -Oh, I meant the New 3DS that made it better. I didn’t realize people didn’t know about that one. -People probably didn’t know about that one.
While we’re at it, the 3DS sold 75 million units. There are probably way more people out there who tested a New 3DS than a Dreamcast.
EDIT: Made me check. 10 million units, as per Wikipedia. I would have guessed higher, but hey, I was still right, it’s more than the Dreamcast.
I’d be fine if you didn’t tell people they only dislike the 3DS because they are repeating what others are saying about 3D TVs.
Nintendo 3DS: 25.96 million
Nintendo 3DS XL: 19.64 million
Nintendo 2DS: 10.29 million
New Nintendo 3DS XL: 12.25 million
New Nintendo 3DS: 2.49 million
New Nintendo 2DS XL: 4.41 million
These are the sales numbers I was able to quickly find. Roughly 15 million “New 3DS (XL)” vs 75 million total devices, or ~60 million 3D devices. So for every person that tried a New 3DS, 3 people only tried the old one.
And you’re surprised, even “shocked”, that most people still think about the old 3DS when talking about the 3DS 3D effect? Shocked enough to attribute it to people just repeating what other people said about 3D TVs?