Can you watch movies on PSVR2?

Can you watch movies on the all new PSVR2? We take a look into plus some of the history of other Sony head mounted displays to watch movies on all in this video.

[@blazinreviews2393]

Watch my updated video called “Use PSVR2 with a Home Theater or Sound Bar” to see how I connected the PSVR2 to my home theater to watch movies and play games without headphones.

[@joejoe2658]

watch how to link something in a description section.

[@Campfacer]

What? So there’s still the screen door effect?

[@apukdcfc]

It's now 2024 and nothing has changed. PSVR2 is so disappointing for playing flat games and watching movies on the headset

[@franciscocendejas3555]

They need to add psvr2 support for youtube or movies. I wanna watch 360° videos. Seems long overdue.

[@davidregan8152]

Just don’t understand why Sony did not include the 3-D feature so we could watch our Blu-ray films, The more versatile the headset becomes the more popular of a must have the heads up becomes

[@Lord_Pistachio_Nut]

Probably because 3d is dead tech. It's not profitable and is expensive to implement. Would you actually want that? For 700-900 dollars JUST to watch a handful of crap movies in 3d? Be realistic lol!

[@Judgment_Day]

3D is awesome . The Quest 1 has done it since day 1 and it's fantastic.

[@BigHitMan_]

For real!! 💯

[@shinkurt]

Sony lacks good leadership

[@lafielanarchy]

Yes, we want it sicne we alreayd paying 700usd. If we buyong the VR we ofc want as much fetures as possible to be able use it more@@Lord_Pistachio_Nut

[@user-eq5ud9tp8o]

Virtual theater would be amazing. That should be a must. Have a little theater where you can pick your own seat and watch, or from different seats, run around while the movie’s playing or get popcorn or some cool stuff like that… would be tits, I’d pay for that. I guess it wouldn’t be able to support having friends due to copyright and bs laws but still to have a virtual theatre to yourself with the psvr2 would be 🔥

[@elms350z]

Yesss! And being able to watch with your friends in a virtual theatre. ❤

[@jediknight38]

Because it's 2nd generation, I was expecting the cinema mode for the PSVR2 to include a feature where you see movies in a virtual movie theater setting like on the PC. But no. Just the same thing featured on the first headset. A giant screen just hanging over a dark void.🙄🙄🙄

[@blazinreviews2393]

Me too, I’m hoping they have a feature like this soon

[@jadenepia5960]

who goes to the cinema to look at chairs

[@jediknight38]

@Jade Nepia It's not the chairs, it's the atmosphere. Haven't you ever wanted a house big enough to have your very own private indoor movie thearter?

[@jassykat]

Bigscreen has to come to the PSVR2. It just has to, that app is amazing! Too bad you can't load your movies into your headset like the Quest 2. I've been enjoying many 4K and 3D films this way.

[@trumplostlol3007]

It is not gonna happen. Sony wants PSVR 2 and PS5 to be hacker free. Quest 2 has serious security issues that many users simply ignore or know nothing about.

[@jassykat]

@@trumplostlol3007 a media player at least and they should add vr support for the streaming apps that support it.

[@DjR3aper]

@@trumplostlol3007 hacker? How.

[@trumplostlol3007]

@@DjR3aper Quest 2 is just like your Android mobile phone. It is based on linux. So, if you go to some suspicious websites, you will get some malware or ransomware. That's exactly the reason why Sony does not allow you to access its browser easily. Quest 2 is NOT secure.

[@mendyzucker5914]

How can my quest2 be 4k it's stuck on 480p

[@adelin081]

It’s so weird that cinema mode doesn’t allow for home theater sound. Especially since it works when playing games.

[@ConservativeJuggaloPodcast]

Patch time

[@LesbianLoki]

I haven't purchased a single movie through PSN. If they want me to start, I need 3D movies.

[@blazinreviews2393]

I know, I love 3D movies!

[@matthewcucullu3258]

💯

[@Bossix84]

Is it that much of a difference ? Just bought PS5+VR2 and I read about lack of 3D movies support. Never watched a movie in VR before.

[@LesbianLoki]

@@Bossix84 I mean, the movie would probably be shown in theater mode, but each eye has the different perspective to create the 3D effect. Like watching a 3D movie with the glasses.

[@danielkuttel7867]

I tried watching Netflix on the PSVR2, but I honestly had to sober up a bit to find that I noticed this weird "cloth effect" view there as well. Yes, the screen is bigger than my TV, but it does not come close to the picture. Therefore, I prefer to use my 4k TV for movies.

[@ultramicha5829]

Same

[@albertella]

I'm sure hoping they add 3D Blu ray support in the future. I would be happy to pay for the service. It's so annoying having to drag the old ps4 and old headset out every time i want to watch a 3D movie

[@blazinreviews2393]

I hope also, especially if they allow 2000 x 2040 per eye. It would look amazing!

[@x32i77]

​@@blazinreviews2393 at this point varjo Aero or Pimax crystal are way better

[@matthewcucullu3258]

I would honestly pay for 3d functionality as well.

[@3DModelsToys]

PSVR2 no 3D movies support, thats the ultimate fail! Quest 2 has it and its awesome, imagine when Quest 3 releases later this year it will be even better.

[@TheMeanArena]

A little birdy told me that there is an app in the works for PS5 that will allow you to watch 3D movies from USB.

[@ultramicha5829]

I'm waiting for sony to release an app of them or bigscreen! since I bought the glasses I'm waiting for them to do that, the closest to a cinema experience I had, was in a part playing Resident Evil 8, when you have to put some cinema tapes, and with that I realized the enormous potential they could have.

[@Kanoog]

SAME! How in the hell did they not think of that..... I use my Quest for games sometimes but Streaming always, I've watched so much in Bigscreen its insane.... That is how you extend the life of VR when the games are low.

[@TheMeanArena]

I have an app on PS5 that let's you watch everything from 3D/Stereoscopic, 180 and 360 videos. All functionality is complete, I'm just in the polish and make it look cool phase now. Hopefully I can fill this void. Makes me curious though as to why nobody has done this for PS5 in 4 years. Either nobody is interested or Sony strikes it down. I'll know very soon.

[@puttenaer]

the anwser is YES. Yes, you can.

[@nicolasmartynov]

Also we need 360 video player on psvr2 .....

[@huymammin5915]

sony should make 15 minutes VR interactive movies series revolution instead of longterm vr games. 15minutes is a good vr format for a much bigger auditorium of users. only 10% maybe want to use vr more than 15m a day, or even a week and 90% dont want to use VR to experience boring VR routines, they want compressed great VR artwork and interesting experiences.

[@Thegooob95]

Source: my asshole

[@shamusteakiawa]

I built up a large 3d movie collection specifically for the original PSVR, so it was disappointing that the PSVR2 didn't get the 3d feature, cause having to switch over to the older model is just annoying.

[@blazinreviews2393]

I highly agree, I just bought a Sony HMZ-T3W to watch 3D movies on and it’s so much better

[@shamusteakiawa]

Oh nice! Yeah, I ended up buying a 3D projector and large screen for watching 3D movies. It's not as immersive as the headsets, but at least I can watch movies with family.

[@twistedninjareviews3100]

Thank you so much for that video. I was looking for this. It's weird that there's not a lot of videos talk about watching videos with psvr2

[@DaveGX]

What I’d like to know is what happened to the KZbin app’s VR support like PSVR1 did? Granted for a time the VR UI stopped working, had to deal with the standard mode but VR videos worked, just not PSVR2 for whatever reason.

[@maxdowney3717]

This is the no1 reason I'm not getting a PSVR2, it'll just feel incomplete without being able to view my saved KZbin VR vids from the PSVR1 days. Some of them are incredible experiences and I can only imagine how much richer they'd be with the improved resolution of PSVR2. It makes no sense to me, can't find anything about a potential update in future either.

[@danielc.1405]

Not buyng vr2 Realy sad that i can bit watch 360 KZbin videos

[@spyhardman]

Regarding the resolution of cinematic mode, isn’t the drop simply because it can’t use the entire screen for that? It would be unwatchable if a movie completely filled your peripheral vision by going out to the edge of the screen, so you’ve got a 1080p area in the middle of your vision. At least, that’s how I read it. I do agree that 3D support would be great.

[@blazinreviews2393]

Not sure, I’d think they could do an update to allow it though. Would make it so much better

[@rugga]

​@@blazinreviews2393 JD is correct, it's 4k when using the entire FOV. A screen is reduced size so it's scientifically impossible to have 4k on a reduced screen.

[@Kanoog]

What a waste, how could they not think of a cinema mode like Bigscreen for all of your streaming apps. I'm not getting it, I'm sticking with my Quest 2. I was excited to have a massive 4K OLED movie theater but I'm not going to downgrade.

[@PreacherMan1971]

Good points. Even though I’m overall content with my PSVR 2, I prefer to watch movies on my Quest 2 (especially with Big Screen) Peace ✝️✌️

[@IsekaiApostle]

Need PHUB compatibility ASAP.

[@theloner6063]

This is why PICO 4 is better...all in one, pancake lenses and you can watch movies in a gigantic IMAX screen size!

[@hofmarskal]

I have a lot of 3d movies on blu-ray and I was looking forward to watching some of them again og a giant screen with 5.1 or even atmos audio. And why do they not support this. The audio works in game but not for movies

[@blazinreviews2393]

When talking about Cinematic Mode, I kept saying “ten hundred eighty pixels” don’t know why I kept saying that, it’s 1080p “one thousands eighty pixels” I’m so used to speaking Japanese that I’m slipping up on my English 😂

[@peterledniczky]

btw for movies the "mura" effect is not strange for you ?

[@blazinreviews2393]

@@peterledniczky When I adjust the headset in the perfect sweet spot it doesn’t bother me and movies look pretty good.

[@alkenstein]

often people say "ten eighty P"

[@lo_fye]

Although the screen was 720 pixels wide, the "p" in 720p was not for pixel, but "progressive" scan video, versus interlaced video.

[@ThatsThatRee]

Anyone with sense understood what you meant bro

[@Heimkineast]

Very disappointed with the lack of both 4K and 3D support for Blurays. Also the resolution provided with GT7 is very poor and looks very blurry. Let's hope Sony puts some more effort in this device!

[@muhammadwasim9861]

❤ Your Reviews. 👍

[@ericcooney6594]

Weird. The dark knight is the first movie I watched with the psvr2. Felt like I was at the movies back in 2008

[@TheMeanArena]

Would have been cool if it would have looked like you were actually at the theater eh? A little birdy told me something like that is in the works.

[@dark147891]

Why don’t u just get the quest 2 because u can download big screen and a full cinema experience and u can play 3d movies PlayStation vr at this point is bad and over priced I own the original ps vr and felt so restricted with what I could do but pc vr or quest u can do what ever u want

[@jsaldana1227]

How do you watch 3d movies on the quest 2 @dark147891

[@dark147891]

@@jsaldana1227 I just go on vr chat or big screen vr they have them to on demand just search 3d movies

[@davidmanjhu]

How much better is the PSVR 2 versus the HMZ-T3?

[@blazinreviews2393]

I’d say the HMZ-T3 is better because it can curve the screen and you can watch 3D on it. I honestly bought one just for that a few months ago.

[@RichSDet]

If it’s only a software fix, it doesn’t make sense that Sony wouldn’t make the PSVR2 movie compatible in 4k. There must be other issues at hand.

[@rugga]

The full FOV is 4k so obviously they can't have 4k on a reduced screen size

[@jlepage36]

Correct, but they can super-sample. And it would certainly be higher res than 1080p. If you've tried 4K video in the HP Reverb G2 at 2080x2080, you can see that it is vastly sharper than 1080p in that headset even though the headset has nowhere near 3840x2160 pixels per eye. Even 1080p in the G2 looks vastly sharper than PSVR2 1080p cinematic mode. I like a lot of things about PSVR2, but the picture quality for movies is terrible.

[@rugga]

@@jlepage36 It's not terrible, I used to watch on the PSVR1 and it's far superior to that, it's 1080. Suggesting it's terrible is over the top.

[@BoogsieClarke]

But how do you start watching videos? Where do you plug the VR2 into, what are you to do next and so on?

[@abararahmed9402]

Answer @2:59

[@JPWestmas]

well, the hardware tech isn't downgrading ( hardware technicality), 3d movies are formatted to be clamped at 1080 p because the movies have to be projected twice (as you mentioned), once per eye thus doubling the amount of data that is required. It's more of an issue of hardware limitations verses cost still (I think). But yeah, you would think that we could still get a UHD disk or a movie streamed to play in at least 1440p. The ps5 hardware and average video cards can handle that.

[@paulcox9366]

I never heard of any of those previous devices not ever saw them in shops or advertised in Australia

[@blazinreviews2393]

Not sure if they sold them there. Japan, America and the UK had them I know that for sure.

[@theshadowman1398]

I actually had the TZ1 and yes it was very uncomfortable

[@mostwanted2000]

Very good review, thanks!

[@MAm-xg9lt]

Does the head of the image go out of the frame by moving and rotating or does it stay fixed in the center?

[@TomRowlandIsSnowblind]

🤘😎 had to shout you out for the NİN. But fan

[@breebriellescuteworld.4721]

Can you play ps5 games that doesnt support vr? Like you have your own screen.

[@blazinreviews2393]

Yes you can 😊

[@dracobeats7496]

I have found a way to connect tour ps5 audio output to a audio interfacce that send sound to a home teather/studio monitor setup. u need to connect the joypad whit a Jack cable into the audio interface mic/instrument input and then youll' be able to hear you audio trough your sound sistem,i Hope this Will help someone

[@blazinreviews2393]

Wish my home theater had that, hows it working?

[@SacerKtracho]

The 3D feature was dropped by the whole industry. They killed it because of lack of public interest.

[@LijahTheLion]

He knows what he is talking about sony..

[@rogermoreno1152]

I wanna know when VR apps that allow you to virtually tour real places in the world are coming? That’s what I want to see, since I’ll likely never get to travel the world in real life lol

[@houarilsk9161]

We needs skybox VR for PS VR 2 ❤❤❤.

[@comicbookguygamecat]

It would be great if bigscreen came to playstation vr 2.

[@blazinreviews2393]

I highly agree, I’d love it!

[@comicbookguygamecat]

@@blazinreviews2393 me too I did ask them on twitter but it's very unlikely they will get back hopefully it comes to playstation vr 2.

[@willvargas4477]

I thought Sony owned the patient in OLED they couldn’t give us 4k resolution on the PSVR 2 But Apple did it with the Vision Pro?🤷🏻

[@peterledniczky]

are u sure Sony will add the surround support for the PSVR2?

[@blazinreviews2393]

Don’t know, I sure hope so. I’d love to use it with my theater system.

[@clacky78]

I get surround sound in VR games but not in 2d games 🤔 not tried movies. That's through the hdmi to my AV amp. So basically it must be the ps5 not passing it through right? And purposely been switched off? Can't see why other than off timing. You could technically run it off a long 3.5mm extension lead I guess so it thinks it's ear phones plugged in but quality may not be so good.

[@peterledniczky]

@@clacky78 I would say the developers forget to make this work, Im also sure this will be fixed, because makes no sense the current way. Also dont understand why the content visible only in the VR glasses when u watch a non-VR content while u play a VR Content is visible on the TV too. currently if u want a better solution to get a better sound is to put via jack a headphone to the VR or u can buy a BT headphone so u can get it on a wireless way, I bought for example the pulse headphone, but still looking for the ultimate solution which allow the surround system.

[@ReyLop]

very good video, thanks,new subscriber

[@user-eq5ud9tp8o]

How big is the screen size at the biggest setting? Is it like a 75” or bigger?

[@ZakRoloff]

Would I be able to watch my firestick on the psvr2?

[@blazinreviews2393]

Pretty sure you could

[@eugenn2848]

but can you watch vr corn with that?

[@TheMeanArena]

You will in 2025. I promise. :)

[@ConservativeJuggaloPodcast]

Can you walk to a closer seat row?

[@blazinreviews2393]

There is no theater on Psvr2 yet

[@elchemyst]

fantastico

[@Mohammed7000m]

الجواب نعم او لا ؟ 😅

[@trumplostlol3007]

The thing that is seriously ridiculous is that Quest 2 is so UNCOMFORTABLE to wear and no Quest 2 fanboy ever complained about it. These idiots are truly pain tolerant. LOL

[@iphoneawesome123]

Tbh yeah it was uncomfortable and too front heavy, but with the extra battery pack it was balanced out and way better.

[@trumplostlol3007]

@@iphoneawesome123 Even Quest pro is 200 g heavier than PSVR 2 and it is seriously underpadded and eyeglasses unfriendly. If you have a bigger head and wear eyeglasses like me, you will feel the PAIN. It is just very badly designed to make it look slimmer to fool people to believe it is lighter which is a delusion. I don't need the wireless feature. I play most of my games sitting, not standing, just like play most of my PS5 games. And Tobii eyetracking allows you to interact with objects and aim your targets using just your eyes with less head movement. You need to understand the NEW generation of VR technology.

[@jorolu007]

Come on Sony!!

[@muumiveikko]

USB stick format? IS there ntfs support?

[@antionejones1374]

No 3d update to this day that's crazy

[@christianortiz5165]

You 100% right

[@deadaim5161]

Why would a VR display with 2 screens not support 3D?!?! This makes no sense. Especially when you'd think Sony would surely want to help push 3D bluray sales.

[@blazinreviews2393]

I highly agree with you

[@DanielMazz]

Do this mean if u have a 3d blu ray rip or copy on a usb stick it will play

[@blazinreviews2393]

It should

[@joejoe2658]

ten hundred and eighty?

[@mrbobo86]

I tried this feature but I didn't like it and will probably never use it again

[@jlepage36]

1080x1920 = 2,073,600 pixels.

[@the_iurlix]

Does it still suffer from blurry edges?

[@blazinreviews2393]

No, not when you make the screen size smaller

[@TheMeanArena]

I have a $200 1080p projector with a $93 100" screen. That's how I watch movies for less than $300.

[@alialtuntas5374]

This vr glass is never not 600€ more 300 and that is to much , its really sucks on your head and its blurry

[@paulcox9366]

To be fair cinema movies aren't real clear either. Tv out does them every way except size

[@bumpsy2358]

Stop going to shitty theatres there are places available with excellent sound and picture.

[@Berek4167]

Get a quest 2 and get big screen vr

[@rainonasphalt]

Wow, Sony dropped the ball. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it wasn't hamstrung like that with no 3D and downgraded resolution. Oh, well, maybe the VR3 in six years will fix that.

[@importon]

So lame that you can't watch 3d content

[@dominicwilliams8147]

this video feels like it's from the early start of youtube...

[@agingmirror4524]

i miss deo vr app on my quest so much, a beautiful intuitive piece of software, easy to use, absolute free i still cant believe i sold my quest and trusted sony and now iam waiting for month for a Software with name RAD RAD !!!!! i mean alone the name , RAD !!! sounds like Rat, and than this ugly 70s years app design And because thats not enough, you can only use it with money and !!!!! because thats still not enough, they let us only pay with crypto tokken bullshit i mean , what is this ??? is this a nightmare ? I remember that deo vr on quest was ready to use one week after release of quest 1 and this littlestar lame people let us wait for month?????? almost a half damn year, how many people working there, i can imagine just one ugly monkey and sony let them do this all because littlestar and sony they make 50/50 with all the money for the memberships it makes sense to let us pay with crypto token , to hide , that sony is waiting with open hands think about and boycott this bullshit

[@Yuichan_27]

can watch netflix?

[@chadlunders4898]

Answer is no. No need to watch further.

[@lorimonti]

Sony ha detto che non metteranno il 3D su PSVR2. Ma ci saranno contenuti 3D da poter vedere tramite apposite app.... Non sono stati molto chiari in merito. E' una grande delusione non avere film 3D su PSVR2! Fanculo sony!

[@jesusloveyou9523]

Do u see your nose in the meddle?

[@jesusloveyou9523]

HMZ what the hell is that lol never hear of that before

[@claytonyoung1351]

Did you say ten hundred? Lmao

[@blazinreviews2393]

Yeah I did, big mistake on my part. It’s 1080p I’m so used to using Japanese I’m messing up on my English

[@claytonyoung1351]

@@blazinreviews2393 all good. Made me laugh.

[@robertp8001]

Two cons no 3d no 4k movies lol but with update this can be done ✅

[@jerryloy6037]

Great video

[@denizcarta9915]

sony failed hardcore, waiting for quest 3

[@hofmarskal]

I agree, it boggels the mind! Sony is so weird!

[@ariel-nn7wf]

Video starts 3:00

[@buckbuckgoose92]

The mura makes watching anything dark look terrible.