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Access the Passthrough Camera via API

Arghzival
Meta Employee
Itd be great if we could utilize the passthrough camera to create lightweight AR experiences. Even something like having the passthrough camera on as the backdrop while in Oculus Home. This would allow me to have multiple windows open at once (now possible in v15) giving me a seemingly limitless AR desktop experience!
Would also be great to allow developers to access and use the passthrough camera within apps.
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EpicOculi
Honored Guest
"They won't allow it." Umm excuse me but shouldn't that be a personal decision - just like allowing access to the microphone or photos? Put it under a privacy menu "Enable Passthrough In Apps" and we can enable or disable it ourselves ^^.

KNP54
Heroic Explorer
What about point cloud data? I have this idea to develop a game that could use this data to create a virtual environment with what the Quest sees. Imagine walking in VR but with actual objects around your house!
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