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I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR
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Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There'd be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.
The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there's a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there's a big loss in colour reproduction. It's fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn't the best idea.
VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.
The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they're most worthwhile.
Meeeeh... at the cost of breaking up the experience pretty severely.
They did it that way in the days of anaglyph 3D because the color filtering made a mess of everything else about the movie With modern shutter or polarization you can just watch the whole thing that way with minimum issues.
And even those proved to be too much. Nothing short of perfect glassless seems to be enough. I can't imagine people would accept paying 600 bucks of a bulky HMD, stop a movie halfway and strap that on just to get immersive VR effects when they could just be playing a VR game instead.
Maybe as part of a more expansive mixed media thing, like in a museum or a theme park. For movie watching I don't think it'd take.