By Carolyn Giardina

Many moviegoers won’t don 3D glasses in theaters again until December 2025, when “Avatar 3” is scheduled to hit theaters, three years after James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” became the third-highest-grossing film of all time, with a whopping 61% of its $2.3 billion global box office revenue generated by 3D ticket sales.

But there are still plenty of non-native 3D films hitting theaters, just not as many as there used to be. In the coming weeks, Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” on June 14, Universal/Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4” on July 3 and Disney/Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” on July 26 are among the high-profile titles that will be available with the glasses, hoping to win back fans with a quality experience.

The switch from film to digital projectors in the early 2000s helped spur the initial development of digital 3D screenings, and with 2009's "Avatar" becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, the format once best known for its use in films like "House of Wax" in the 1950s was once again a hit with audiences.