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This is a sore spot.

On PSVR1, Sony's "Media Player" app's only VR option was to display 360 degree mono videos with head-looking. There was no option for stereoscopic playback. YouTube did add a PSVR capable player, but streamed the videos at a very low res. A 3rd party player, Littlstar was capable for playing various 3D video formats (full 360 degree, VR180, and 3D bluray style 3D video), but demanded a subscription, even for local files... It also only worked on one or two codecs with very specific encoding options... and the decoding was poorly optimized, so large videos (only a subset of which is visible at a time, so you need a high-res video), didn't really work. Not ideal.

PSVR1 could support 3D blu rays.

On PSVR2, Sony still has no built in VR video playing app at all. Littlstar has rebranded as Rad, and has been struggling to get playback working. They also plan to make their subscription based on payments via some proprietary blockchain crap.

PS5/PSVR2 Sony dropped 3D BluRay support. It's not clear if it will ever return.

I am amused that I was completely unaware that there were 3d blurays. Any that are worth trying to get ahold of to play with?

I've really only tried Ready Player One. I've heard the Marvel ones are decent. Anything animated, like a Pixar should be good, since they can just re-render from the 2nd camera location for the other eye.

Be aware 3D BluRays won't play without a 3D display, like a 3D TV, or a PSVR...

For PSVR it will be lower res than ideal, and due to the BluRay player not using the camera for tracking the headset, will drift slowly to the side. (As I said, Sony's not been good for non-game PSVR support).

Finding 3D BluRays is the trickier part. I've found it easier to order region free disks from amazon.co.uk than trying to find anything in Canada.

It occurs to me that I did, in fact, know of 3d movies. I was thinking something more VR focused than 3d, for some reason. Still, I share the curiosity that the psvr2 doesn't support 3d movies, now.

If you have a 3D capable setup Gravity is a must! Avatar and Life of Pi are also some favorites.

There’s also a few gems and lesser known films that were released on 3D Blu-Ray like Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, which was shot in 3D but wasn’t originally released in the format because the 3D fad died by the time the it came out.

They’re hard to watch because 3D TVs were so unsuccessful. You often need a special Blu-Ray player, and I don’t know of any streaming service that supports 3D.

3D TVs were too far ahead of their time. 3D works far better on 4K than on 1080 since each eye only gets half the image, (though the 4K 3D format doesn’t exist) so it would be nice to see it make a comeback on VR. While 4K and HDR are much better I still miss the occasional 3D film.

I've still got a 2013 plasma with 3d and while you lose half of the horizontal resolution (the image is stored twice side by side) it isn't really noticeable in most 3d blu ray movies. Streaming services lose a lot more sharpness by compressing the heck out of their movies.

Most blu ray players (even the 4k ones) still support 3d since the only thing needed is to pass the image with a '3d' flag set. The rest is up to the display.

Personally I'd like to add the movies "Hugo" and "The Martian" ;)

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