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Over 150 3D Movies and Spatial Games Coming to Apple Vision Pro
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It’s probably going to deliver the best 3d experience and to be honest I wouldn’t mind paying a premium for it. All 3d experiences I’ve tried before left me wanting more.
Right.
Tv’s and cinema gives different experience.
it’s all good.
You won’t miss a thing with your headset when I’m watching my 3d tv.
Did you heard about new bw film emulsion they made for Oppenheimer?
Maybe it ruined your experience?
Will AVP have any type of 2D to 3D conversion for watching non 3D movies or tv?
It’s been a while since I spent reading on 3D TVs of the past but I was thinking this was a feature?
It’s been a while since I spent reading on 3D TVs of the past but I was thinking this was a feature?
Ted Lasso is arguably dorky and he’s awesome, so bring on the dorkiness!
But yes, I have no idea how AVP will go. I like a lot about it, but I recognize that it’s impractical in many ways.
Since those all had 3d Blu-ray releases, they are all fairly likely candidates to actually fulfill your wish list. I don’t understand what would possess anyone to give a thumbs down to a polite posting of a wish list, though.
The problem is that AFAIK only Prometheus was released in 3d (it is definitely worth seeing in 3d), so they would have to convert them to 3d first, and that would likely only happen if this thing takes off in a big way. Not impossible, but I can’t see them being released early.
Yes, I actually do. I prefer it to watching with the group that were sitting behind me chatting about their after plans at the last movie, or the guy that was surfing on his phone in front of me at the movie prior. For me, movie nights are a social thing, but movies themselves are not, at least while actually watching them. When I watch a movie, I want to be able to pay attention and actually watch the movie. I guess people these days would call it “active watching”.
That's what so impressive about the Apple ecosystem. For any other company, simply getting enough content for their headset would be a tall order. For Apple, they are okay bankrolling entire movies just to ensure the Vision Pro has adequate support on Day 1. And all this is leveraging on TV+ and Apple Arcade, so it's not like they have to come in and do something entirely new.
It's fascinating looking as far back as decade ago and seeing just how many new products and features announced by Apple, in hindsight, turned out to simply be setting the foundation for the Vision Pro in 2024.
Now that's playing the long game.
Yeah, several of my iTunes movies are the digital copies that came with old 3d Blu-ray discs, so it would be nice if they upgraded them free. Several of those were early enough that the digital copies were still SD, before they upgraded to FHD, so I’m thinking those are unlikely to ever get upgraded. Since they upgraded the FHD to 4k, though, I am hoping that the later ones do get 3d upgrades. And since I still have my old LG E6, I’m hoping they enable 3d playback on the AppleTV 4K, too. If that isn’t possible, if they added it to a newer model, it would be a very easy upgrade to sell to me.
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Yes I totally agree but you missed the part about big screens. Unless you have a dedicated home theatre room its a very strange thing to watch movies alone on a very large screen in your living room.Yes, I actually do. I prefer it to watching with the group that were sitting behind me chatting about their after plans at the last movie, or the guy that was surfing on his phone in front of me at the movie prior. For me, movie nights are a social thing, but movies themselves are not, at least while actually watching them. When I watch a movie, I want to be able to pay attention and actually watch the movie. I guess people these days would call it “active watching”.
Well, apparent screen size is based on distance from your eyes, so the PSVR screen actually looks very large when watching Blu-ray 3D disks. The AVP would be the similar, but sharper, I expect. The Quest 2 is similar for SBS media. Even my TV is much closer than I sit at the theatre, so it also seems fairly large, but then I grew up in an age before HD television, so almost everything in home AV seems pretty impressive, these days.
Yes I grew up during CRT era as well and currently I use a 27" dual monitor setup for work and have a 55" TV screen in my living room. Anything bigger than 55" I think is better suited for either a home theatre setup, or a large enough room where more than 5-6 people can sit comfortably and watch the movie/game without compromising on the viewing angles.
Same for desktop monitors.. I think anything above 32" like 42/43 is too large to sit in front of and work comfortably, unless you have special work requirements.
Whilst you may *think* anything bigger than 55" is better suited for a home theater or large room set-up, have you ever tried it? I sit in a single chair in an alcove in a room where the space is just 8 feet wide with my eyes less than 7 feet from a 65" screen, and the experience is compelling for TV, games and movies.
Even with that screen, and at that close viewing distance, the field of view that the screen fills is significantly smaller than what I experience in an IMAX theater (I wear glasses, and there is a neat trick I can do to see how different fields of view compare in different environments. I simply close one eye, and check where the screen sits within the out of focus glasses frame. IMAX very nearly fills it).
I think what you are trying to refer to is called "immersive experience". It does feel great but is not so good for your eyes, that's why I said the larger screens are meant for home theatre setups where you might watch a movie or a game a few times a month at most, and not really a couple hours every day.
I tried it once by using a 43" TV on my desk for 4K gaming.. it was an amazing experience.. but I started getting headaches after a couple of weekends of intense gaming. So I got rid of that screen and use my 2nd 27" Monitor now.
Yes, I wouldn't want to try to work on an IMAX screen, but watching movies is a different thing. I do expect the Vision Pro to allow you to resize the screen to whatever arbitrary size you prefer for the task at hand. The size of the room you are in could be a limitation in AR to some, I guess, but I expect that if Apple doesn't offer a full VR mode, some programmer will come up with one that offers you the chance to sit in a different virtual location. I think it was the default Oculus Go player that would allow me to change the theatres I was sitting in, including to an outdoor screen on the surface of the moon. It wasn't something I changed often, but was a fun touch, and might appeal to you since you seem to have very specific expectations of the locale that you need to view movies in.
I'm not "trying to refer" to anything. I'm describing the environment that I watch TV, films, and play games in. And explaining that that environment isn't close to being the field of view that is taken up by an IMAX screen.
I'm sorry that you got a headache.
They showed exactly that in the very first demo back in June. It's highlighted in the first press release, etc etc...
Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.
www.apple.com
Thanks! I did watch that, but I wasn’t sure I remembered correctly, as I know I’ve seen it on at least a couple of other headsets and the common features start to blur together. Again, if they didn’t offer it, it would be strange (that said, lots of things seem strange lately, so I try not to assume anything.)They showed exactly that in the very first demo back in June. It's highlighted in the first press release, etc etc...
Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.www.apple.com