Give access to the IR cameras, on Quest 3, for visibility in dark rooms

[punkbuddy89]

Quest 3 color passthrough is cool.  But we no longer have access to the IR camera feed, for night vision.  This would be nice to be able to toggle between.  The IR feed is useful for those who have IR floodlights and use their devices in darkness.   IR passthrough is helpful to find things in complete darkness, without needing to turn on room lights and disturbing others.

[nypariah]

This is a really useful idea. Just got my Meta 3 today, and just browsing these forums, but holy heck, that's clever. 

[Darkcgi101]

Yes I have been searching for a way to toggle it. At night I used it to see in the dark when I was looking for something or going to the bathroom. I didn't have to turn on a light and disturb my wife. Plus I could clearly see my nephew sneaking into our room to try and get his confiscated vape twice in one night.

[MoltyCat3]

Yes! We need this very much!!! I also suspect that it will reduce power drain if use old IR passthrough and off color one. I really would like to use IR passthrough in main menu and turn on color only for games.

[DreamconnectXR]

To give my bit of weight on this:

Axess to the IR feed for users as well as developers would harbour great potential for MR applications.

The popular night vision hack along with the here mentioned increased navigation safety in dark environments

Are things I heavily miss on my Quest3

As a developer having access to what camera feed to show and overlay would be great to increase the immersion in MR apps.

First thought:

A mystery game in your own home, where you have an IR flashlight 

Also developing for and Playtesting backwards compability would be enhanced greatly.

Can anybody point out to me, where we could apply some leverage and make this an feature request?

All the best

Lee W. Dreamconnector 

[Juidodin]

yes this ☝️ - coming from quest 2 i almost tripped over a chair when i turned off the light as usual, trusting in my IR lamp and the quest3 pass through was total black.

[Link_lrf]

I want it!

[sdrawkcabmiay]

I need this! I always use my headset in the dark with ir lights and not being able to see with the pass-through makes my quest 3 usage so inconvenient in comparison to my quest 2... 

If this gets added it will be my default pass-through mode!

[Barnlee273]

wait... so Quest USED to ahve this feature????? (i guess in quest 2 and other vr sets???) WHY does Q3 NOT have this as standard???? OMG!!!!

AND WHY do we not have a comment from a METAMOD/Dev???? This WOULD indeed help so much with safty in the dark... it would also even aid us in protecting our homes (who's that at the door? Is anyone trying to break in? etc)

[sdrawkcabmiay]

@Barnlee273 Yeah the quest 2 didn't have colour cameras so it had to use the tracking cameras for pass-through. The night vision was very good for safety.

[rineksoSimson]

We actually need this, I hope it came on quest 3 for update software