The Abxylute 3D One has loads going for it. It's intriguing, powerful and immersive for a handheld, fully featured, configurable and more. But it's also pretty flawed. Its key feature, the glasses-free 3D tech, doesn't really add up, the battery life is pretty bad, and the price and compromised portability have you wondering whether a much more powerful gaming laptop wouldn't be a far better idea.



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It's busy and crowded out there in the world of handheld gaming PCs. If you want to stand out, what you need is some kind of unique feature. Hummm. How about the world's first glasses-free 3D handheld PC? We give you the Abxylute 3D One.

Actually, this huge handheld has quite a bit more going for it than just the glasses-free 3D stuff. For this class of device, the 10.95-inch IPS display is pretty monstrous. Then there's the modular construction with detachable controllers, kick-stand and a keyboard. Oh and it's all powered by an Intel Lunar Lake chip, in this case the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V complimented by 32 GB of memory.

The real novelty is, of course, the glasses-free 3D tech. Abxylute describes it as, "electronic parallax barrier technology, the most mature and reliable form of glasses-free 3D tech today to balance brightness, tracking, and viewing comfort." But I think it amounts to essentially the same approach as seen in various glasses-free 3D monitors.

That includes the Acer Predator SpatialLabs View 27 I reviewed last year, which uses lenticular lenses and eye-tracking cameras. The Abxylute 3D One does indeed have tracking cameras at the top of the display and the resulting visual experience is very much the same as that Acer monitor, albeit in a smaller scale. But hold that thought, there are a few other issues to attend to.

Abxylute 3D One

Processor

Intel Core Ultra 7 288V

CPU architecture

Intel Lunar Lake

Core / threads

8 / 8

CPU boost clock

4.8 GHz

GPU architecture

Intel Xe2

Shader count

1024

Memory

32 GB LPDDR5x-8000 (shared)

Screen



10.95-inch IPS LCD display

Resolution / Refresh rate

2,560 x 1,600 / 120 Hz

Peak brightness

480 nits

Storage

1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD

Connectivity

1x Thunderbolt 4 USB Type-C1x USB Type-C with PD fast charging1x USB Type-A 3.2 Gen11x UHS-II microSD card reader1x 3.5 mm combo jack

Dimensions

365 x 171 x 47 mm

Battery

50 Whr

Weight

1.1 kg

Price

$1,599 / £1,194

✅ You're intrigued by glasses-free 3D: The Abxylute 3D One glasses-free 3D tech definitely works and it's quite unlike any other handheld PC.

❌ You want maximum bang for your buck: For the same price as the Abxylute 3D One, you can get a much, much more powerful gaming laptop.

Support for this kind of glasses-free technology isn't a given for any particular game. Moreover, there are also hardware limitations to deal with. In terms of game support, at the time of writing Abxylute lists 46 games with "native" support.

You can peruse the full list on Abxylute's website. Some of the better known titles include Baldur's Gate 3, Death Stranding, Starfield, Hogwart's Legacy and a couple of Assassin's Creed installments. But 46 games is 46 games. It's not, ultimately, very many.

There's also an "AI" 3D mode that doesn't require explicit and specific game support and can be applied to any game in theory. In practice, while it does work on a basic level, it's so hit and miss in terms of correctly mapping depth to rendered objects (including sometimes "wrapping" menu elements around 3D objects) that it isn't really usable. Broadly, it's probably safer to assume that if a given game isn't on the supported list, the glasses-free 3D feature may not work well enough to be usable.

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