As some of you might remember from our previous articles on the matter a while ago, notebook and PC manufacturer Acer announced the development of a notebook capable of providing users a very interesting portable 3D experience, with the help of a special display, software and glasses. However, it seems that this concept has caught on to other manufacturers as well, since Asus has recently demonstrated its own approach to this particular subject, the G51J3D.

According to the guys over at RegHardware, who've had the chance to take part in a live demonstration of the aforementioned portable computing system, the notebook uses shutter technology, rather than the special coating and polarized glasses employed in the case of Acer's offering.

Coupling that with the fact that this thing will sport an NVIDIA GeForce GTX160M graphics chip with 1GB of dedicated DDR 3 video memory, as well as information from the 3D Vision Blog, it's quite clear that the notebook will actually employ NVIDIA's 3D Vision technology, the one we tested a while back.

Besides the GPU mentioned above, the new GeForce graphics unit will come equipped with an Intel Core i7 720QM CPU, 4GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory, up to 640GB (dual 320GB HDDs in RAID) storage, combo Blu-ray reader and DVD writer, as well as a 15.6-inch, 1920x1080 (Full HD) LED-backlit display running at 120Hz.

We won't go any deeper into the issues of connectivity networking options, but one can expect pretty much the best solutions currently available on the market to be included in this device as well.

In any case, Asus might not stop at just one notebook, since it plans a second 3D model for 2010, the 17.3in G72GX. Unfortunately, very little info on this second device is available for the time being.

Given these developments in the field of mobile 3D, as well as the rapid advancement of 3D technology, it's very likely that we're going to see quite a few such portable machines arrive on the market over the course of 2010, which is shaping – up to become the “year of 3D.”


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