Recording passthrough without guardian - Quest 3

[drakulton]

I was looking for ways to record video and take pictures with the Quest 3, without having to create a boundary/guardian as meta don't like you using passthrough without one.

Workaround -
So, if you disable the guardian in dev options or QGO and then fire up a mixed reality game such as First Encounters, the game will not let you continue without setting up the guardian by scanning the room.
If you start the MR game with your finger covering the middle sensor window, it will try and scan the room and sometimes ask to rescan the room. Then the game stalls and just shows the passthrough.
Click on the meta Oculus button to check to see if the game is still running, don't click the continue or quit game options.
Open up the camera app and start recording or take a picure. Click on the meta Oculus button to clear the menus.
Or, click on the meta Oculus button to clear the menus and use hand controller buttons to record video or take pictures.

This is currently working for me on V69 PTC, and I've also got the Ocular Migraine app running in the background to give 4K stereoscopic SBS video and image capture.

 

[Tykey]

Hey if u want I could make a very simple MR app that simply showed a passthrough image, is that along the lines of your idea?

 

[drakulton]

Hey if u want I could make a very simple MR app that simply showed a passthrough image, is that along the lines of your idea?

Yes, I probably wasn't explaining myself very well. Might not even need the indicator to show its running. Folks would fork out for something that adds more funtionality to the headset. Maybe a splash screen to instruct users to block the middle sensor window if scanning s a headser requirement.

 

[drakulton]

Perhaps the app could disable the bounbary automatically when it fires up.

 

[Tykey]

Perhaps the app could disable the bounbary automatically when it fires up.

Yes, I probably wasn't explaining myself very well. Might not even need the indicator to show its running. Folks would fork out for something that adds more funtionality to the headset. Maybe a splash screen to instruct users to block the middle sensor window if scanning s a headser requirement.

I've replied to your PM I'll reply here as well, basically I said ah tbh honest i'm very busy with my own app + work at the moment, i could very quickly make u an app that just went into passthrough and nothing else, you could then record the video feed of it w/o black background if QGO is used to toggle the boundary off. But anything more complex I don't have the spare time for sorry. Maybe I misunderstood your requirements anyway but as mentioned not got the spare time for anything other than something very simple.

 

[drakulton]

Ah, thanks, just replied to your pm.

 

[drakulton]

No surprise that the Quest 3 doesn't support viewing SBS stereoscopic videos correctly ( Virtual Desktop does ) or SBS images at all. The Pigasus app allows you to view the recorded SBS video and pictures without issue on the headset.

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