{"id":686925,"date":"2026-05-22T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:21:15","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-and-super-mario-galaxy-movie-head-to-vision-pro-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686925\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ and ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Head to Vision Pro in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vision Pro is steadily becoming the premier destination for 3D theatrical releases to reach home audiences. The latest 3D movies headed to Vision Pro include The\u00a0Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)\u00a0and\u00a0Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).<\/p>\n

The News<\/p>\n

Apple has confirmed two new 3D movies headed to Vision Pro.\u00a0The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)\u00a0is available to buy or rent in 3D as of this week, through the Apple TV app.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Nintendo<\/p>\n

That will be followed by the top-grossing movie of 2025,\u00a0Avatar: Fire and Ash, which will be available starting on June 24th, streaming in 3D on the Disney+ app.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it\u2026 that\u2019s the news.<\/p>\n

My Take<\/p>\n

Vision Pro is the best way to watch 3D versions of major movies today, thanks to a combination of high-quality OLED displays and ease-of-access to high-quality 3D content.\u00a03D movies on Vision Pro are generally streamed in 4K with HDR and surround sound, and you can make the screen literally as large as it would be in an actual movie theater. From my personal experience, if a movie in Vision Pro is available in 3D, there\u2019s no reason\u00a0not to watch the 3D version; it\u2019s a pure value-add to the experience.<\/p>\n

This follows the collapse of the 3DTV market years ago, which led to a near-elimination of movies being released in 3D for at-home viewing. Vision Pro is offering a second life to the 3D releases at home. And while the number of 3D movies available on the headset is continuing to grow, the high cost of Vision Pro makes it anything but certain that releases will continue in the long term.<\/p>\n

Avatar: Fire and Ash, in particular, is a major win for 3D movies on the headset; Vision Pro is now the only way to experience the movie with the 3D perspective that director James Cameron originally intended it to be seen.<\/p>\n

Granted, the release calls into question the\u00a0partnership between Cameron\u2019s Lightstorm Vision studio and Meta<\/a>, which was announced at the end of 2024, a year before the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash.<\/p>\n

At the time the studio and Meta said they were partnering to \u201cscale the creation of world-class 3D entertainment experiences spanning live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring big-name IP on Meta Quest\u2014which will be Lightstorm Vision\u2019s exclusive MR hardware platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it wasn\u2019t ever confirmed that the partnership would include a 3D release of Avatar: Fire and Ash on Meta\u2019s headsets, the release of an exclusive 3D clip on Quest<\/a>\u2014to promote the movie\u2019s release\u2014certainly teased as much. But at this point it\u2019s unclear if the movie will be released in 3D on Quest like on Vision Pro. We reached out to Meta about this but the company didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vision Pro is steadily becoming the premier destination for 3D theatrical releases to reach home audiences. The latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-686925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}