CES 2012: Toshiba Shows Off Qosmio F750 Glasses-Free 3D Notebook

Toshiba, one of the most important companies behind glasses-free 3D technology, has demoed at this year’s CES fair the Qosmio F750 15.6-inch laptop that can display stereoscopic 3D images without the need of special glasses.

The most important addition brought by Toshiba to the Qosmio F750 is of course the parallax screen that can display 3D images without requiring any glasses.

This is similar to the display used in the Nintendo 3DS portable gaming console, but it has now received a new eye tracking system to compensate for the larger screen (Toshiba calls this technology Active Lens).

By using this webcam, the owners head is tracked at all times and the notebook adjusts the image displayed to make sure that it won't lose its third dimension.

The only downside to using this method (apart from the questionable quality of the 3D effect) is that it can work at the panel's native 1080p resolution, which forces it to drop to 1366x768.

Moving past the 3D screen, Notebook Italia reports that the Qosmio F750 is powered by a quad-core Intel Core i7 2630QM processor with a base clock of 2.0GHz that is seconded by 8GB of system memory and by a 750GB hard drive.

The Qosmio F750 is designed to use both the GPU integrated inside the Core i7 Sandy Bridge processor is well as a discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 540M graphics card with 1GB of dedicated memory, and fully supports the Optimus technology for on-the-fly graphics switching.

The rest of the notebook specifications list includes a Blu-ray writer, Harman Kardon stereo speakers, a multi-card reader, a 1.3 megapixel webcam as well as 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity.

Three USB 2.0 ports are also present, but more important is the inclusion of a USB 3.0 connector that can offer greatly improved transfer speeds over the previous version of the standard. The suggested US pricing of the F750 is set at $1,499 (1,165 EUR).