Acer's new Aspire V 17 Nitro puts a Kinect-like camera inside a gaming laptop

Gaming PCs have always been about power: their job is to do more things, more quickly. But as Intel's RealSense 3D camera, Leap Motion, and other technologies start to be integrated into laptops, gamers are starting to get not just new games to play but new ways to play them.

Take Acer's Aspire V 17 Nitro, the company's well-received entry-level gaming laptop. Acer announced a new model today ahead of CES that includes RealSense, which uses a standard camera, an infrared sensor, and a laser projector to map the world in three dimensions. It's similar to Kinect in a lot of ways, and can see an amazing amount — all ten of your fingers, what's behind you, even your exact facial expressions. Acer's bundling a few apps that take advantage of...

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