I worked on mechanical engineering and ID for some 3D video glasses in the mid-2000s. One of the supposed use cases was watching movies on a plane. As part of t

I worked on mechanical engineering and ID for some 3D video glasses in the mid-2000s. One of the supposed use cases was watching movies on a plane. As part of the project we tried to test out that hypothesis by having users watch something (I think it was Avatar) while in a limo driving down 280 (a fairly smooth highway in the Bay Area). One of the subjects had to pull over and vomit. Turns out he was a former fighter pilot. The product found a niche as remote googles for FPV (first person video) drone pilots, but was not successful otherwise. It had a very narrow field of view and the aperture was small, so getting aligned to even see anything was challenging. I still remain skeptical that movies on a plane will really work out, but I have more recently tried out some VR experiences which blew my mind and made me much more positive about the whole field. [0] [1] I'm also cautiously excited by the orders of magnitude improvements that Apple as made in resolution, field of view, and latency for passthrough. [0] https://phi.ca/en/carne-y-arena/ https://phi.ca/en/carne-y-arena/ [1] https://phi.ca/en/events/space-explorers-the-infinite/ https://phi.ca/en/events/space-explorers-the-infinite/