Seriously—there’s now a dedicated “TV” app with a movie section, including a couple of 3D trailers for Avatar, yet there’s no section for 3D movies at all. What kind of dropped ball is this? I should be able to open that app, select 3D movies as a main option, and watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 3D on my Quest 3. VR is perfect for 3D movies—so how is this still not nailed in the Meta/Quest/Horizon/TV experience? At this point, it’s just a sick joke.
This has been a problem for years. It definitely can be done. (Adult sites.)
ForFreedom. 😂You'll feel like you're actually there. I think the problem is broadcasting rights, and profitability and maybe lack of content. Very few 3D movies exist. If it was making money every streamer would offer 3D movies but none of them do. Then there's the user. I have no problem spending up to 2 hours playing games and moving around but I tried watching the Frankenstein movie(not 3D admittedly) on HBO Max, I think, on the Quest and I couldn't handle just sitting on the couch with the headset strapped to my face for 2+ hours. Put it on my new 85" Samsung I bought for last Christmas. Even 3D movies played as standard it's far more comfortable on TV. I can definitely imagine a world with a super light headset watching 3d content though and I would pay for that. We're not there yet. Maybe the Bigscreen Beyond will be good for that. Very lightweight and you could wear it for hours on end I imagine.
You'll feel like you're actually there.
Let's not talk about haptic accessories for VR pron 🤣.
Yeah, this is very disappointing. I've said it a few times recently - Meta's core apps are just lacking. No 3D image viewer - taking down Meta Quest TV, 3D films as you say, the ability to film in 3D from the headset (can be done with a little script).
Where is the big cinema you can open and invite friends? Where is the large screen on a lake you can invite people to? These should all be built-in.
No 3D image viewer
I'm pretty sure there is a built-in 3D image viewer (Media Player), but there's no shortcut in the app library and you can't open content directly from within the player. I guess you have to click on the media in your Files app and open it that way.
Where is the big cinema you can open and invite friends? Where is the large screen on a lake you can invite people to? These should all be built-in.
You can watch cinema on the excellent free BigScreen app, and invite people, so what is the point of Meta making their own version?
taking down Meta Quest TV
Meta Quest TV is still there and working.
Wow, how unrealistic can your expectations be? Even if they had these 3D movies, you would need to pay some sort of subscription service, just like you do with Apple, Netflix, Binge, Prime Video, Disney+, etc etc. You can still watch your own 3D movies on your home network in your headset using the media player or a 3rd-party player such as Bigscreen, as long as you have the DVD, Blu-Ray or a digital copy.
Why do you think this is such an unrealistic expectation? You could maybe have a subscription or just buy one off movies. Not unrealistic in the least
I think you may have missed the point, I’m perfectly happy to pay for the movies perhaps even subscribe to a service.
Apple Vision has 3D movies both on Disney+ (subscription) and the Apple TV app (formerly iTunes - purchase or rent/pay per view). I think it’s about time that Meta came up with something.
Is this really what stumped you? The idea is simple: Meta could offer 3D-movie selections and rentals directly within the TV app—using the account and payment information that almost everyone with a Quest headset already has set up. Or they could continue integrating with existing services while clearly listing 3D movies alongside the regular film options already in the app.
Right now, there’s no way to browse available 3D movies on the headset at all, even though the TV app already includes a movie section. I’d just like an easy way to see what 3D titles are available and have an obvious path to watch them—whether that means being redirected to another subscription service or using a built-in Meta payment option.
It really doesn’t seem like a complicated concept: select a “3D Movie” filter, see the full list of available 3D titles, and go from there.
Seriously man... I just spent the last hour or so looking for 3D stuff and I downloaded big screen only to find out that you can't stream anything from them right now due to some licensing issues then I went to VR chat and tried the 3D option through Duke's 3D and that didn't work because I needed to select something called enable untrusted URL option which I couldn't find anywhere after looking it up multiple times and seeing exactly how to do it only to find that there was no option to do it at all on the meta quest 2 that I'm using... And honestly I don't think your question is a bad one at all nor is your point about having just some simple way to select movies to purchase for this format... Even though it seems like other people in this forum think you're logic is unreasonable which I think isnt right because I was thinking exactly the same thing you were and I'm just frustrated as hell because this shouldn't be so difficult...
If you find some way to do this then please come back on here and update so I can take a look...
