There is nothing like seeing a 3D movie, the amazing effects, the impression that you are really there and that something is about to come at you. But you do not always afford going to see 3D movie, perhaps you don’t have the time, you don’t like what is rolling and so on.
But with the new technology increasing day by day, you are now able to see 3D movies right home, sitting in bed with a big bag of pop corn besides us. There are a couple of 3D capable notebook computers out there waiting for you to enjoy them, but first of all, let’s see them.
The real draw card of the 5738, however, is the 3D screen. 3D technology exists in many different flavours and Acer has chosen to use the passive ‘polarised’ technique in conjunction with its own TriDef software. This works by having a filter built into the screen which polarises light from every even line of pixels in one direction, and every odd line in the other direction.
When you put the supplied glasses on (which are slightly less nerdy-looking than Nvidia’s 3D Vision goggles) the lens covering the left eye blocks out light from every even line of pixels, and vice versa for the right eye. The net result is that a different image is received by each eye and from this you can create a 3D or ‘stereo’ visual effect.
The upside of this technique is that the glasses are passive, meaning no batteries or charging required, plus they are lighter and, presumably, cheaper to replace once they’ve been lost or stood on (an inevitable fate in my household). The downside, however, is that you effectively halve the perceived onscreen resolution and the image appears very interlaced, like an old CRT television. This effect can be avoided by turning the TriDef software off and taking the glasses off, in which case the 5738 looks and acts like a normal notebook.
