Disney Plus adds more than 60 3D movies to its Meta Quest app

Disney has added more than 60 movies in 3D to the Disney Plus app on Meta Quest headsets. According to The Verge, the films are available to existing Disney Plus subscribers through an updated version of the VR app that began rolling out on November 10.

A much larger 3D catalogue

Meta says the new lineup includes titles such as The Avengers and Black Panther. The movies are available to subscribers through the updated app, which turns the Quest version of the service into a substantially bigger destination for 3D films than it was before. The named examples point to Marvel titles being part of the mix, alongside the Star Wars and Pixar films referenced by the themed environments described below.

Themed settings, not just playback

The update goes beyond stereoscopic video. Viewers will be able to watch some films inside virtual environments themed around them, such as a Tatooine setting while watching Star Wars: A New Hope, or a Scare Floor setting for Monsters, Inc.

Jay Peters of The Verge tried an Avengers-themed environment in September while testing Meta's forthcoming VR Glasses, and his reaction was mixed. It felt novel for the few minutes he spent in it, but he was not sure it would remain appealing across an entire movie. That is the central open question for the format: whether sitting inside a themed scene adds to a two-hour film or simply becomes a distraction.

IMAX Enhanced and Lionsgate titles ahead

The Verge also lays out what is coming to Meta's VR Glasses, the company's next device, which is set to release sometime in spring 2027. The Disney Plus app on that hardware will let viewers watch IMAX Enhanced movies, with Avengers: Endgame, Lightyear and Tron: Ares named as examples. The glasses will also serve as a place to watch 3D movies from Lionsgate, bringing a second studio's stereoscopic catalogue to Meta hardware.

Why it matters

The move is a notable expansion of mainstream 3D content in VR. It gives Quest owners a large library of stereoscopic films through a subscription many of them already pay for, with no need for a 3D-capable television or physical media. It also signals that Disney treats VR as a serious surface for its catalogue rather than a novelty, porting themed environments and IMAX Enhanced variants alongside the standard versions of its films. With the VR Glasses due in spring 2027 and Lionsgate's 3D movies also on the way, headset-based film viewing is quietly accumulating both content and format experiments. Whether immersive environments genuinely improve a full-length film, which Peters's brief hands-on leaves unproven, will determine how much of this is more than a gimmick.