William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026Now as people have already pointed out, stereoscopic 3D has never been totally dead. Look, for example, at this graph of the proportion of movies in 3D. It's kept bumping along. stephenfollows.com/p/how-are-3d-mov… 11/ 111
William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026My point here isn't "3D bad". It's that for 175 years or more, people have been thinking "2D success + stereoscopic 3D technology = the future". It's not a dumb hypothesis, really. People do process (a relatively close portion of) the world with binocular vision. Seems possibly important. 12/ 123
William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026My objection is that otherwise smart people, over and over and over again, make big investments in that hypothesis without ever understanding why it has failed so many times before. Facebook's VR losses alone are above $75 billion dollars. Stereoscopic 3D is a cool novelty, but at this point […]sfba.socialOriginal post on sfba.social 121
