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

[bloopm]

It is so blurry that I can barely see nothing not to mention reading the text. 

 

[SilkyZielke]

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

[Tohon]

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]

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. 

 

[kojack]

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.

[SwaMusic]

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.

[Hiro_Protag0nist]

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

[RuBuCa]

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.

[Hiro_Protag0nist]

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.

[RuBuCa]

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.