3D Movies That Work Well With Oculus Rift/ VR
2015 Movies:
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldy Operations
Everest
Every Thing Will Be Fine
The Good Dinosaur
Home
Hotel Transylvania 2
Inside Out
The Martian
Minions
Pan
San Andreas
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
The Walk
2014 Movies:
Appetite for Democracy 3D
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
D-Day, Normandy 1944
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dolphin Tale 2
Exodus: God of Kings
Goodbye to Language
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Hunter
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge
Khumba
The Legend of Hercules
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
The Lego Movie
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The Nut Job
The Penguins of Madagascar
The Pirate Fairy
Planes: Fire and Rescue
Pompeii
Postman Pat
Rio 2
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Step Up All In
Transformers: Age of Extinction
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2013 Movies:
47 Ronin
Amazing Ocean 3D
The Banshee Chapter
Battle of the Year
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Epic
Escape from Planet Earth
Flight of the Butterflies
Free Birds
Frozen
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside the Mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in 3D
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jerusalem: Filmed in Imax 3D
Metallica Through the Never
Monsters University
Nurse 3D
One Direction Concert Movie
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Spiders 3D
Stalingrad
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Twist
Turbo
Walking with Dinosaurs
Yellowstone 3D – America’s Greatest Wonder
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2012 Movies:
The Amazing Spider-Man
Bait 3D
Brave
Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away
Dead Before Dawn 3D
The Dino King
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Dredd
Finding Nemo 3D
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Hellbenders
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Hotel Transylvania
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Life of Pi
Madagascar 3
Monsters Inc. 3D
Ocean Circus 3D
ParaNorman
Piranha 3DD
Pirates! Band of Misfits
Prometheus
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Retribution
Rise of the Guardians
Scorpions Live in 3D
Secret of the Wings
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Static
Step Up Revolution
StreetDance 2
Underworld Awakening
Universal Soldier
Wreck-It Ralph
WWII in 3D
2011 Movies:
The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Born to Be Wild 3D
Cars 2
Cave of Forgotton Dreams
The Darkest Hour
Dolphin Tale 3D
Drive Angry
An Elf’s Story
Fields of Valor: The Civil War
Final Destination 5
Flying Monsters 3D
Fright Night (in 3-D)
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Gnomeo & Juliet
Happy Feet 2 in 3D
Horrid Henry
Hugo
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
Kung Fu Panda 2
Mars Needs Moms!
A Monster in Paris
Nova Zembla 3D
Pina
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Puss in Boots
Rescue
Rio
Sanctum
Sector 7
Sex & Zen 3D
Shark Night 3D
Tormented
The Three Musketeers
TT3D
Torrente 4
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
2010 Movies:
Alpha and Omega
Animals United
The Child’s Eye
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Jackass 3D
The Last Reef
Legend of the Guardians
Legends of Flight
Megamind
The Mortician
Natalie
The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Film
Resident Evil: Afterlife
A Turtle’s Tale
Saw 3D
Sea Rex
Shrek Forever After
Space Chimps 2
StreetDance 3D
Step Up 3D
Tangled
Toy Story 3
Tron Legacy
Yogi Bear
2009 Movies:
Astro Boy
Avatar
Coraline
A Christmas Carol
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Dark Country
The Final Destination
The Hole
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Jonas Brothers 3D
Monsters vs. Aliens
My Bloody Valentine 3D
Shock Labyrinth
Under the Sea 3D
Up
2008 Movies:
Bolt
Dolphins and Whales
Fly Me To the Moon
Hannah Montana
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Kung Fu Panda
Scar
Wild Ocean
2007 Movies:
Battle for Terra
Beowulf
Meet the Robinsons
U2 3D
2006 Movies:
The Ant Bully
Deep Sea 3-D
Monster House
Night of the Living Dead 3D
Open Season
2005 Movies:
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
Aliens of the Deep
Chicken Little
2004 Movies:
Ghosts of the Abyss
Spy Kids 3-D
2003 Movies:
Ghosts of the Abyss
Spy Kids 3-D
2000 Movies:
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
1999 Movies:
Toy Story 2
1995 Movies:
Toy Story
How Does it Feel And How to Setup
Trust me on this one, Oculus Rift gives you a much better 3D experience than theaters and cinemas do. Even home theaters do not live up to the level of 3D quality. Now you can argue about the resolution, but since VR head-mounted displays will get better and better each year, I don’t think it’s going to be a problem for the long-term.
What Oculus Rift really takes advantage of is scale. No other device can give you this kind of experience. It’s as if you are truly there, in full size. The feeling of elephant coming closer to you, huge skyscrapers towering over you, and all the other scaled objects can give you shivers, literally. And if to add the real 3D, no layer bull****, I start to believe that Oculus Rift movies, or soon-to-be-called VR movies will conquer the world of cinema. Why would you buy an expensive flat screen TV, why would you go to cinemas? Well, actually I would go just because it’s a bit louder there, and going to cinema with friends makes more sense. But other than that, I really don’t see any other advantages.
If you also want to experience at least the 3D movies mentioned above, first you need to do is download:
- LiveViewRift (you can try other VR movie programs).
- Have Rift in extended mode.
- Start LiveViewRift.
- Press “+” and type the name of the movie you are going to watch.
- In the Layers section set Current Layer to layer 1 (Background). Set Type to Video. If there are any other Layers delete them.
- Drag the video file to the Video-Path/Url window.
- Press “test” in Cam-Setup to see if the video actually plays and it is in the format you think it is in.
- In the Environment Section set Scene = Black and check the Scene Placement
- Check Start in Full Screen, Pacific Full Screen, Show Hud on Start Up. Uncheck Show H&S Warning.
- Click Start and put on HMD. You should see the HUD. Look straight ahead with the head level.
I will post a more detailed setup guide soon, as well as update regularly my list of all the Oculus Rift movies and 3D movies that work well with VR devices.
