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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.
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
IMAX 3D was impressive. Regular cinemas with 3D movies, meh.
I’d be watching all my shit in 3D…
If they actually sold 3D TV’s that used the polar glasses and streaming services streamed 3D movies.
People say they were a gimmick, but a basic polarized TV’s for a reasonable price were never a thing.
It was a gimmick. Half the movies released in 3D during the last wave were poorly done conversions not even shot for 3D.
It’s always fun to watch some cheesy action or horror movie from when 3d was being pushed super hard. All of a sudden there’s a scene where things are being flung at the camera for no apparent reason and you say, oh yeah, this was supposed to be 3d.
Yeah, that’s not quite the “shot for 3D” I was talking about. Those are the worst 3D films that don’t even hide that it’s a gimmick.
I don’t know if they’re shot in 3D, but I enjoy the nature and science movies shown at my local planetarium. There’s nothing gimmicky about them, just subtle depth.
I think that’s a different beast.
Half the movies released in 3D during the last wave were poorly done conversions not even shot for 3D.
Only half? -_-
I’ve only seen a few movies that were actually filmed in 3D. Even Gravity was filmed in 2D.
The problem is that actually filming in 3D requires using different (and expensive) hardware, and different creative direction all across the board. You can’t just upgrade to a 3D camera and call it a day. Not many studios will put in that kind of effort for something that is not proven in the market. And not many filmmakers are actually skilled at working in 3D, simply due to lack of direct experience.
I saw the Hobbit movies in high framerate 3D in the theater, and while they were not good movies, they looked absolutely amazing because they were committed 100% to the format from start to finish — not just with the hardware, but with the lighting, makeup, set design, everything. It’s a shame the movies sucked, and it’s a shame that there has never been a way to watch them in HFR 3D outside of select theaters.
I used to do a lot of research in 3D imaging, and my take is that passive stereoscopic glasses were always destined to fail because they cause eye strain for too many people. And that eye strain is usually caused by the fact that the focal point is fixed, and a lot of eyeballs fight that when they see a three dimensional image. We’re used to being able to shift focus at will with real-world 3D space.
This problem doesn’t impact everyone, and it’s not as bad with immersive experiences that keep items sharp in the foreground and background, or with films that don’t have interesting shit happening the background.
That said, it’s a really old and well documented problem, and I don’t believe we have affordable varifocal viewing solutions on the market yet.
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.
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).
It sorta partially is. On Apple’s movie store you get the 3D version with the HD/4K version. So if your movies anywhere unlocks the HD/4K it should unlock the 3D too. As long as the publisher has put the 3D version up there. And many did as a result of the Vision Pro.
I have a bunch of 3D movies available on my Vision Pro, and I’ve never specifically bought one in 3D. Many came from digital codes.
Apple has the largest collection of 3D movies right now.
The thing is, new content with proper 3D isn’t being made much these days. I’d estimate Apple has the bulk of what exists available already.
Edit: where am I wrong here?
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.
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
Nah, can’t have been a pure accident, there’d have been more steps than a single button. He’d have had to sign in at least
If you were signed into Facebook in the same browser session then you wouldn’t need to sign in again
Look at these noobs not using a private window at minimum.
I don’t even HAVE a facebook account.
Don’t need one to share with zuck. He’s already scraped all of your comments on lemmy too
Valve index, pimax, vive, varjo?
Everyone’s out here acting like the two options are the quest or the psvr, there are tons of headsets out there, especially if all you want to do is jork it
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 think there is specifically a YouTube 3D. Maybe it’s an app. I was pretty unimpressed by most of the VR stuff. Blurry and distorted. Rollercoasters are fun. Nature documentaries would be neat but the quality is so low you can’t really see much detail, just the grand vistas.
I personally find VR porn really meh. I want to like it, but again it’s blurry - especially when they shove genitals in your face and your eyes can’t focus, and you have this really awkward view of someone simulating oral sex that just hurts your eyes, and it’s not even as stimulating as it would be to watch someone else doing it from a reasonable distance. At least for me.
That said, all my shit is a few years old and maybe the resolution and frame rates are better with newer stuff than oculus 2, but I think VR works better with simple shapes than video. Beatsaber is a great experience in VR and there are some similar rail shooters but most everything else has been disappointing.
Minecraft should’ve been fun but it made me sick. Skyrim VR was pretty fun. Especially because you could still mod it, but again the resolution and frame rate are too low for the level of detail in the game.
Not too late. Depending on your stance with Meta though.
I purposefully missed out. I think it’s gimmicky in it’s current state.
The Ghost in the Shell movie in VR is jaw dropping. The 3d effects work beautifully.
Ok, I’m intrigued but looking it up there’s apparently a few GitS things in 3D/VR:
- A 3D version of the live action movie.
- A short VR experience based on that movie.
- A 3D version of the anime movie “GitS: Stand Alone Complex – Solid State Society”.
I’m guessing you’re talking about the live movie, but now I also want to know how an anime would look like in 3D.
I’ve only tried the live action movie. I just downloaded a pack of random 3d movies to try out the experience, and that happened to be the one I picked first.
It’s so silly that these days they are still making the 3d movies for theatres but just not releasing them on streaming services.
It would be a major competitive advantage and something I would use fairly often if I could just open the Netflix or Disney+ app and watch some 3d movies on my PSVR2. I love laying and watching movies in VR when I’m tired but not ready to sleep. 3d would be an additional draw.
Seeing Spy Kids 3D in the theatre as a child was wild af.
I think I saw that at Disney World as a kid as my first 3D experience.
