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Honored Contributor
November 6, 2023

Hey everyone! The engineering team has been reading feedback and doing some testing on this topic. We've found that the most common cause of any passthrough noise or unexpected quality is due to the amount of lighting in the room. To get the best experience with passthrough, check out our article here.

 

The team is still interested in everyone's feedback and will continue to analyze passthrough performance.

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SilkyZielke
New Participant
October 10, 2023

Mine is the same. I can hardly tell a difference between quest 2 and quest 3 passthrough, other than color of course.

    GilC307
    Participant
    February 28, 2024

    I just opened and set up my Quest 3 that I had purchased at time of release expecting passthrough to be very clear and bright just like a regular color camera view would be! It is far from being clear! Looks like you are viewing tHrough haze on a desert! Why can’t the passthrough be like a camera view! Definitely not as advertised!

    Tohon
    New Participant
    October 11, 2023

    Yeah I'm not impressed with the passthrough... its nowhere as clear as the youtuber presentations.... unless 50% of people have fualty units.... There is a reddit forum starting to blow up about the terrible passthrough quality.... it's not looking good for the quest 3.... whenits main sales pitch was mixed reality....

      chandruxp
      New Participant
      October 11, 2023

      Yes it is very very bad ! Can’t read anything. VR text are clear. So I feel like it is not screen resolution. It is only the pass through mode which is casting the camera images on screen that is blurry. 

       

        Gonzo771464146
        New Participant
        December 4, 2024

        I don't think that picture is doing your concerns justice.. I can ready your key board just fine.. I can't read anything, at all though mine

        kojack
        kojack
        Honored Contributor
        October 11, 2023

        It's got more distortion than I would have liked, considering it has front facing cameras at average IPD (not diagonal far apart cameras that must be reprojected). Looking at my phone it did a pincushion effect (pinching in) to it. But I could read it, I was doing the phone setup part while wearing the headset.

        Also some white balance issues under my fluorescent light (would turn yellow-ish and back).

        It's way clearer than my Rift-S, Quest 1 or Quest 2.

        I should get out my Zed Mini (add-on AR cameras for VR headset colour passthrough) and do a quality comparison.

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          SwaMusic
          New Participant
          October 11, 2023

          I'd definitely say that it's much better than that of the Quest 2 passthrough that is very difficult to make anything out. I only found myself having to lean forward just slightly more to read the screens on my computer monitors.

          Before the 3, I already had my displays set to 30% brightness to help for longer work sessions to lessen eye strain so maybe that's helping my setup to be a bit more ideal for passthrough readability as well.

          HiroProtag0nist
          HiroProtag0nist
          Honored Contributor
          October 11, 2023

          It's a thousand times better than the Quest 2 and much better than the Quest Pro.

          Scientifically measured by my eyes.

          edit: but yes, I was hoping for better

          Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3
            RuBuCa
            Participant
            October 11, 2023

            I have the same issue, can barely read my phone.  Definitely the menus and games are fine. I'm hoping Meta says something to announce a software fix, otherwise I'm going assuming it's hardware and I'm exchanging mine.

              HiroProtag0nist
              HiroProtag0nist
              Honored Contributor
              October 11, 2023

              Hi RuBuCa what will you exchange it for?  I have a Quest Pro and Vive XR Elite in front of me and I assure you the Quest 3 passthrough is the clearest - I think you'd have to go Varjo to get better.

              Is it reading phones and your PC monitors that you are specifically after?  For me and my colleagues - being able to see our monitors without lifting the headset will be a great help.

              Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3
                RuBuCa
                Participant
                October 11, 2023

                I hope it's a software issue. Here's a photo from Reddit, Quest Pro VS Quest 3. Many users are shocked at the horrible passthrough videos quality. Although I have to say that everything else looks great.

                  PhantomMark1362335
                  New Participant
                  October 11, 2023

                  Honestly, the pass through on my Pico4 is weirdly better, I though in that respect the Q3 would be better again !

                  trotamundoos
                  Participant
                  October 11, 2023

                  same issue here, Meta Quest 3 passthrough phone reading quality is terrible in mine I have to take the headset off every time I want to read something, for sure this is not normal right?.

                  But the VR menus and games look great.

                    trotamundoos
                    Participant
                    October 11, 2023

                    There must be something wrong with my unit as the real world in the passthrough mode looks fussy, and the text are impossible to read from devices and books. Although wen I'm casting to a tv, the image look perfect, so is not a problem of the cameras. The VR menu and apps looks great dough.

                    Hope thit is only a problem of software and meta will update on this soon. But if is a problem of hardware I'm Afraid will need to return my unit.

                      javiconnor
                      New Participant
                      October 12, 2023

                      Hi, my unit has the exact same problem, when i cast to the pc the image looks great, but looking through the lenses of the quest 3 everything i see with the passthrough looks very blurry and grainy. Also, i notice the youtube vr videos looks like 144p but the resolution is set to 1080 or 1440, and i know it´s not connectivity problem. I dont really know what to do, so i think i will return it and test a new unit.

                        trotamundoos
                        Participant
                        October 12, 2023

                        Oh yes, I have the same problem with YouTube videos, very low resolution even dough it's at 1080pp. This is my first VR headset saw I though I must be doing something wrong.

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