Sadly the passthrough is black and white only. That's the one thing I love about the Vision Pro is it never feels claustrophobic thanks to very good passthrough quality.

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bananamogul 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Wow, Steam Frame has only B&W passthrough...[1]

The Quest 3S has color passthrough and it's hardly an Apple-level device, and it's $349 in comparison.

I guess as a gamer, I don't care that much. I put on my headset to game, and if I need to step away for a moment, I'm more likely to take it off than to wander around my house with a headset on. Still, I thought color passthrough was now table stakes for a headset.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/the-steam-frame...

	▲	3092-8121-9924 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think it's not purely unmotivated cost-cutting. They went for IR sensors and have embedded IR LEDs for low-light tracking, and i figure colour passthrough would have required additional cameras.
	▲	hgoel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		IIRC there were rumors that the headset would have an open PCIe slot for such things to be added. Presumably they were passed on as defaults for cost reasons.
	▲	simjnd 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, same. I'll still get one because I think it being a standalone Linux computer is huge, and I'm so interested in the Proton / Lepton stacks to run Windows and Android games but yeah this is a pretty big compromise.