This handheld gaming PC has an 11 inch, glasses-free 3D display and Intel Lunar Lake

Chinese media and gaming company Tencent has revealed a handheld gaming computer that it says is the first with a glasses-free 3D display that leverages eye-tracking technology to adjust on-screen images to create a stereoscopic 3D effect.

At this point, the Tencent 3D One handheld is an experimental product, so it’s unclear whether it will see the light of day anytime soon. But the 3D screen is just one of the things that makes this portable gaming PC unusual. It also has a big display, detachable controllers, and an Intel Lunar Lake processor with Intel Arc graphics.

The system has an 11 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel display with a 120 Hz screen refresh rate, and a set of controllers that slide on and off the sides like a pair of Nintendo Switch Joy-con controllers.

It’s the type of design we’ve seen before: the ONEXPLAYER X1 has a similarly-large display and works with detachable controllers, but while the ONEXPLAYER X1 controllers look like they were designed for a smaller handheld, the Tencent 3D One has controllers that take up the full height of the left and right sides of the game console… for better or worse. While this design does make the system look more like a handheld and less like a tablet with controllers slapped on, it also means that you’re going to have to hold this thing near the top in order for your finger to reach all the buttons, which looks awkward.

It’s worth noting that a promo video shows one gamer using the back of a couch to prop up the handheld.

The system is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor with Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics and features 32GVB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, a 1TB SSD, and support for 100 watt fast-charging.

While AMD’s mobile chips have come to dominate the handheld gaming PC market over the past few years, Intel’s Lunar Lake processors should bring a significant boost in graphics performance which could, at least theoretically, make them competitive. But so far the only major PC maker that’s announced plans to bring a Lunar Lake handheld to market is MSI, and we’ll have to wait until next year to find out if the upcoming MSI Claw 8 AI+ lives up to its promise. And we may have to wait even longer to fir the Tencent 3D One or any other models, if they ever actually arrive at all.

via VideoCardz