What‘s the difference between HMD and TV 3D?

[Kukulcan]

Let’s take Sammy’s adventure as an example. I first watched it on a 3D TV and the 3D is awesome. The inscreen depth is great and the popouts are impressive.

So watching from some 6 feet away, I can touch a popout fish at arm‘s length. Going closer until the TV covers most of my FOV the popout as well as general depth is still good.

Next I watched on PSVR and nearly no popouts, 3D effect nearly non existant. Same on Cinera Edge. No popout and nearly no 3D effect. I though reducing the image size would help as it would „move the screen farther away“ - nothing.

So would the solution be to actually move the screen farther away? I mean moving it farther away in the virtual display space. Would that even be possible to add depth to the screen itself and as well to the actual content?

Anybody understand what I mean?

[Kukulcan]

Switch on your 3D TV and push your nose on the screen. No popout effects obviously and depth also reduced. Move away 10‘ and 3D depth improves tenfold.

With an HMD you can‘t move away 10‘ as the screens are close to your eyes. So the screen would have to me moved 10‘ back (virtually) to have the same effect.

Movie viewers (at least the Cinera Edge) do not offer that option so I wonder if VR headsets do and if it even possible with a 3D Blu-ray.

[cdx47]

Originally Posted by Kukulcan

Switch on your 3D TV and push your nose on the screen. No popout effects obviously and depth also reduced. Move away 10‘ and 3D depth improves tenfold.

With an HMD you can‘t move away 10‘ as the screens are close to your eyes. So the screen would have to me moved 10‘ back (virtually) to have the same effect.

Movie viewers (at least the Cinera Edge) do not offer that option so I wonder if VR headsets do and if it even possible with a 3D Blu-ray.

Software in other VR systems like Oculus/Meta have options for different screen sizes and distances. Check out the Watching 3D Movies in VR thread. From what I have been told by others, PSVR is not the best example of 3D VR because as you say, the screen is essentially flat against the lens.