In my personal opinion, what's great about watching movies in VR is that you can align yourself with the optical axis of the lens, creating a true (looking through a window effect.) You can also enlarge the screen to such a degree, that you start to inhabit the space of the image, depending on your comfort/preference of course.

I prefer the sweet spot of minimal eye/head movement with maximum immersive size.

My plan is to create a series of 4:3 BD + DVD hybrids for watching in VR. 4:3 is very close to the IMAX aspect ratio of 1.43:1, so hence, in theory, you're creating an IMAX version of the film. 

Here's what I use.

Program: Whirligig (Most Customizable/Adjustable program I've found)
Mode : Cinema

Window Experience Settings
Size = 3.7
Distance = 3.8
Tilt = -2 (Will need to adjust so centered for you)
Horizontal Curvature = 70
Vertical Curvature = 30

In Movie Experience Settings
Size = 4.7
Distance = 3.8
Tilt = -2 (Will need to adjust so centered for you)
Horizontal Curvature = 70
Vertical Curvature = 30

Whirligig offers several different media formats for playback. Select the one that works for you.

Please feel free to join the discussion.

This sounds interesting.
I had a look into VR for regular film watching instead of a large TV or Projector years ago, but we were not quite there yet.
I guess it's time I deep dive into this again.

Thanks for starting this thread, I'll look into the specifics you have listed as a start
Is there a VR headset anyone recommends I look into?

I have an old Samsung odyssey headset that I still use.

But if I were going to get a new one, I would probably go with the Big Screen Beyond 2 headset. The size, weight, resolution and reviews all make it pretty ideal. But I would primarily use it for watching movies. It also uses Micro OLED so you’ll get some pretty nice black levels.

If you want something all around general use for an affordable price, the Oculus Quest 3 or 3s might be the best bet.

It's also one of the last and now rare way to watch 3D movies, but only half side-by-side or half top-bottom, I believe.

(2025-08-23, 04:56 PM)Beber Wrote: It's also one of the last and now rare way to watch 3D movies, but only half side-by-side or half top-bottom, I believe.

I thinks that's only a software limitation maybe

I would say a DLP projector is probably the best way to watch 3D, especially if it's triple-flash with the RF link glasses. I think new projectors still have 3D capability, unlike flatscreens

Except DLP is a no-no for me and 10% of the worldwide population because of rainbow effect. I must stick to Sony SXRD, JVC D-iLA or Espon Tri-LCD... and all three have now basically deserted the 3D compatibility. So I must take the most out of my current 3D compatible lamp videoprojectors as long as they can live.

Interesting, I was sensitive to the rainbow effect on early 2x colour wheel speed DLPs but not on the later faster speed wheels. I would have to dart my eyes around the screen real fast to 'force' the effect and even then it was slight. I don't think I ever saw rainbow effect watching 3D content.

I never tried on 3D content as I only saw the problem in showrooms. I didn't even need to read the labels to know those models were DLP, I knew right away in a couple of seconds. Of course, amongst people who are sensitive to the rainbow effect, some are more sensitive to it than others. I don't see it all the time, but pretty soon it appears and nope, I'm not paying a few thousands to complain about that annoyance every other minute. I heard that the most recent tri-laser models are less impacted, but it's still a sequential method of display, so I'd probably see it nonetheless. Plus watching mostly foreign movies with subtitles doesn't help in avoiding the rainbow effect either, as the white letters on dark backgrounds and the eyes moving from left to right to read make the rainbow effect even more frequent.

My Epson 5050 supports 3D. Have they been dropping it from newer models?