Disney Plus subscribers with a Meta Quest headset can now watch more than 60 movies in 3D, and a few of them come with a virtual set built around the film.
The 3D titles arrive through an updated Disney Plus app that is rolling out to Quest owners. Meta said the list includes The Avengers and Black Panther. The movies are available to Disney Plus subscribers as part of the app update.
The more distinctive addition is the themed environments. Some films play inside a matching virtual space: a Tatooine setting for Star Wars: A New Hope, or the Scare Floor for Monsters, Inc. The Verge's reporter tried an Avengers-themed environment in September while testing Meta's forthcoming VR Glasses, so the feature has been in demonstration for a while.
The environments are the part that matters. A 3D movie on a headset is a format choice, and on its own it is a modest pitch. A film that plays inside a recognizable world gives the headset something a TV cannot copy, which is the space around the screen. The picks make sense for that purpose: Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar are among the best-known properties Disney owns, and each has settings people can picture.
The limits are plain. Sixty-plus titles is a fraction of the Disney Plus catalog, and the environments cover only some films. Whether they extend beyond the launch picks will show how much effort Disney is putting into the Quest version of its app, and whether a themed room is a lasting reason to put on a headset or a one-time curiosity.