Is it normal to have my quest 3 passthrough going like this?

I have also been quite underwhelmed by the poor camera quality on the quest 3. The resolution is far lower than I was expecting given the current state of phone camera technology.  The exposure is really bad, and clips color to compensate. The visual warping is something that developers could have addressed, maybe with a minimum depth threshold. I also think that they could have used an up-scaler to improve the camera on the software side. In the short term, they should allow users to control their passthrough camera exposure, and have the option to disable auto-compensation until they can polish this to be more suitable.  The only decent video I have seen of the passthrough cameras is when people have LED light panels / ring lights in their room to help with the exposure, but this could have been done much better. 

A little tip though for people having a hard time reading their phone, set your phone brightness to it's lowest setting, it will at least let you be able to kind of make out the text on your phone. The resolution is still very bad though.

My theory is that the image displayed trough the Lenses lacks any form of postprocessing based on how the screen capture is always less grainy and less blooming than the live footage,

even when played back in the headset media gallery 

for example: video👇 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k6xAr3XG2M13i1xY7WTosaSFYca_3rBR/view?usp=drivesdk

When I was capturing this the phone was unreadable bloomy mess in the live feed and background graininess was not much better than inside the house but in the playback you can see text about as clearly as on the promotional materials.

I have exactly the same issue. 

I have the same issue, my passthrough is so bad it's unusable. I thought as someone stated that i forgot to remove the plastic protection, but there is none. Some pictures posting here is actually good. Mine is so grainy and the resolution so bad. It's like the first camera phone. If even that. It has to be an hardware problem, because it can't be this bad.

same here is this normal or it should be better

Some people love it, some people hate it. Personally mine is very grainy. I keep hearing it is a lighting issue but I think it goes beyond that and actually is that the hardware isn't as good in some of them. I am considering bringing mine back and exchanging it for another.

I find it to be pretty sharp as far as viewing like video playing or reading text in the middle area. Outer areas not so sharp. So far I like it ok however I only had original Quest previously , never had Quest 2 so ya pretty big leap for me.

Same here, no way I can read text in a book or screen through the headset, no difference if the room is lit by 1 or 5 strong room lights or if the room also gets extra light from a window (not direct sunlight).

Is anyone else experiening jittery image or screen tearing when moving in passthrough mode? I'm not sure but I think it might have started after the last update or I didn't see it because I'm still fascinated (lol)

Anyone else having this "issue"?

Link to video:

(2) Meta Quest 3 Stuttery passthrough - YouTube

I have heard that when the quest 3 first came out there was a clear picture but after a new update came out causing the camera quality to be grainy my guess is the update has accidentally change the cameras frequency so it made the quality worse or broke something else for lack of compatibility with the os hopefully there is a update to fix this