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My Samsung 3D television was awesome for playing PC video games on. The big downside was that playing PC games on a large television wasn't the most ergonomic experience. (And for movies, none of the streaming services offer 3D content.)

I wish smaller 3D computer monitors had caught on. At least VR headsets are still going strong and are even more immersive.

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Actually there's at least one streaming service that does 3D: Vudu. https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/movieslist?FEATURE=3D

I have no experience with their 3d, only their HD (they call it HDX because marketing) which is perfectly fine for a streaming service.

Xfininty used to have 3d on demand as well. I have a 3d tv from 2012 and love it. It also has an interesting feature where it can interpolate 2d => 3d which depending on the content works very well, or is a complete mess.

I have used Vudu for 3D streaming and it worked perfectly.

Unfortunately, not every device supports Vudu's 3D!

The important ones, PS3 and PS4, do however.

They are both cool for short term use, but I've yet to see a shutter glass/etc implementation that is synced well enough to the screen and blocks 100% of the light to avoid ghosting.

VR googles have their own issues, because the lenses never seem to be perfectly in focus, and the resolution isn't high enough directly into the glasses.

In both cases you can choose to ignore the problems for a while, but at least in my case the eye strain builds up enough I doubt I could deal with it for even 4 hours a day on a regular basis.

> They are both cool for short term use, but I've yet to see a shutter glass/etc implementation that is synced well enough to the screen and blocks 100% of the light to avoid ghosting.

I've never seen this on a monitor/display either. But I have an Epson projector from 2013/2014 that uses shutter glasses and does block 100% of the opposite eyes image. Because it's not a screen, it doesn't have to blank the image between frames, it just completely stops sending light from that frame.

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