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“The golden era of 3D home movie releases”
The era was never golden. Most people did it a handful of times, got a headache, and never did it again.
I did it fairly often throughout. Left the 3D slider of my 3DS cranked up permanently, too, if you must know.
Either way I do own a bunch of 3D Blurays until they started making you choose between 3D and 4K and eventually stopped making them altogether.
Theres a bit of a difference between slider on the 3ds and the fad that was 3d tvs that came with their own glasses. We used it like a handful of times when we first got the TV, but I think no one I lived with actually liked the effect, it just made them nauseous or annoyed by the glasses. My parents were mad at first when i got rid of their 3d tv, and I said good riddance lol.
Well, 3D was a feature on many high end TVs, all the way to the start of the OLED era. It’s not like it was mandatory to use. But yeah, not everybody was into it, and I certainly would much prefer glassless 3D as with the 3DS. The big problem there is supporting multiple viewers at once. I would definitely take it for a monitor or a phone, all else being equal.
When I first got VR I got a bunch of 3D Blu-rays to rip but the quality was trash. You have the 30/24 fps (can’t remember which) divided by two (for each eye).
It was so bad that action scenes just looked like a huge blur (probably partially due to having to re-encode).
I still wonder if BigScreen has better source material because the rentals there always looked great.
I thought Men in Black were awesome in 3D. I don’t understand why more movies were not released in that format
Well shit. I missed out on VR.
I have a psvr, but only one company makes an app you can watch your own files on. And they charge $30 for the app.
But then they say “no porn”.
Well then I’m not buying your overpriced VR app!!! Why do you think I was even looking in the first place??? I was going to download some porn files in VR, and then watch it them through a usb stick in the ps4 on your app! But noooooooooooo. You hate money! Asshole!
Sorry. Not you. I was talking to the app.
You have to use the one linked to your Facebook account and share your porn history with Zuck.
Lol back in highschool one of my buddies accidentally clicked an fb like button on a porn site and it shared the video to his feed
Senator Cruz?
o7
I don’t even HAVE a facebook account.
Just embrace being horny on main. :) Unless you’re American. Then instead of you coming, they’ll be coming for you in the next 4+ years.
I bought the psvr2 and module to hook it up to my pc but watching vr stuff in general isn’t easy a you would think.
I tried some vr stuff on YouTube but I can’t seem to get it to work. People suggest downloading the movie and use apps but I just want to click the video and stream it.
Same on pornhub, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
I had better results with my s7 with the vr goggles…
I’d honestly be down to buy a VR headset if movies otherwise used them in some sort of universal format. Definitely not buying Samsung/Sony/Paramount/Meta VR bullshit though.
You get to choose your format if you dump your own media. Plus you also get to host a media server and stop paying to not watch Netflix.
There are tons of options to play back 3D media on a HMD. Honestly my complaint here is that watching media on a virtual screen in VR kinda sucks. The quality just isn’t there and you still have a big thing strapped to your face. I’d much rather have good glass-free screens and leave VR for VR things, but it doesn’t seem to be the way tech is going.
It’d actually be kinda cool if there were movies with supplemental VR. That is, mostly 2d but with VR headset sections. I know they had this in the theatres in thr past with red/blue VR glasses, but it’d look so much better with a good VR headset.
The issue is that it’s a bit of a hard sell within an already limited market segment. You’d need to already have a largeish TV, and then also a 3D headset on the same PC.
I’d think most VR enthusiasts would have their VR on either a standalone unit or on a gaming PC, not on their HTPC.
As you’ve said, watching an entire film in VR is kinda ass.
How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.
The idea with 3D TVs is they could do 3D on demand. They failed because even the lightweight 3D glasses were a bit of a hassle. It’s fine in a movie theatre, more or less, where you know you’ll be seated for the whole thing, but at home you don’t want anything extra sitting on your face, let alone putting stuff on and off mid-movie.
I agree on the VR filmwatching being ass thing, though. It’s hot, sweaty and isolating to do at home when your TV is right there, and it’ll take a whooole lot of normalizing before I pull out a HMD while I’m on a plane or a train without feeling like a complete idiot, regardless of whatever Apple was thinking about how the Vision Pro would get used.
Spy Kids 4D
Yeah it would be nice to get Movies Anywhere or something fully on board. All the movie studios are sitting on 3D movies already, they just need to make the app(s).
I think I’d like more engagement though to really commit. Be able to turn my head and see more of the scene. Stand up and view a slightly different angle.
All of the tech exists to make this possible, I just don’t know if filmmaking can work that into the mix.
There’s an app I got for Plex for my Meta Quest 3 and I gotta say that it is top notch. They have a bunch of settings for how you’d like your environment to look like but I prefer the one that makes you feel you’re at the movies and it really does feel that way.
Not sure if that’s what you were getting at or not but I enjoy it when I’m out and about instead of using my iPad or iPhone.
Downside is that you need to sideload this which requires a Meta developer account (free, just unnecessary hassle) as far as I know. Other is that it requires Plex and not the native Netflix/etc. app. Though YouTube has a similar format in their official app.
