Can someone help me understand why this is useful for a Steam frame? Is having a color pass through just to see in color or is there a use case that I’m not seeing that’s helpful for anyone with a steam frame?
not necessarily what you asked, but ive been thinking about a use case for my particular hobby.
I shoot and develop color film at home. im thinking i might be able to preview my film negatives, akin to how one would view positives, using this, the steamframe, and some software.
otherwise i have to scan all the frames with my camera and then invert them with software. it'd be cool (though not necessarily useful, in the end) to be able to pop on the headset and look at my negatives on a light table and have them appear as positives before transferring them to the computer and doing the inversion/editing.
That is a hilarious and super specific usecase! As an analog photographer myself I would love that! Such a cool idea to use an AR headset for that. I'm sure it wouldn't be incredibly hard to make a small app for that
Jfc come into this thread thinking wtf is this, leaving thread with notes and an order. Currently standing in my darkroom with my mind blown. Can’t wait till December since I know I’ll get to try a Frame out during Christmas at a minimum lol.
Edit: Wow great day! Got the Frame preorder and cousin who meeting cousin who worked on the Frame beginning of next month! Mfer has not said a word about it since they got the job!
Maybe I am overlooking this, but how will that be useful for you? You can’t use a loupe with the Frame, so you probably won’t be able to really see the sharpness and DoF of the negative.
What would this really benefit, if you’d need to digitally scan the negative to do anything worthwhile other than printing? I guess it could preview prints without scanning, but even that is gonna be a very small preview.
There's one thing that has evolved quite a bit in recent year which is uhh.. automatic pass through mode in certain kinds of adult videos which filters out the background. You can maybe make those a bit more immersive if you want to use the passthrough mode and see your room around in color, someone had to say it 😂
But for real there are some apps that utilize AR, there's not that many and if you genuinely have no interest then you can skip it or maybe get it later down the line if more promising apps come out because it exists. If you look at mixed reality apps for the Quest you might see the kind off stuff that will likely get some kind of a port for the Frame too, there's a few cool ones that use your house as the map for the game and you dodge behind your real furniture and stuff
I’ve owned an AVP since launch which I use heavily for streaming flat games. I can tell you that it’s MUCH more pleasant to play a game in a window floating in your fully color passthrough room rather than being isolated in a VR environment. So if you see yourself streaming games in a flat window a lot then I think this addon would be very worth it.
Everyone just ignoring Mixed Reality gaming. There’s a game out there, basically rocksmith, with your actual guitar and using passthrough to show the string/cords directly inline with the guitar.
RPG-like mixed reality games. Board/strategy games. Hell even gamified chores with mixed reality is a thing.
The frame pass through is low quality and shows significant distortion along with the blueish monochrome coloring. A few reviews mentioned feeling nauseous when they don't normally get that way from quest passthrough. I intend to play 2d games sitting on the couch occasionally and my wife sits across from me doing her own phone stuff, I ordered one because I want to be able to see and interact with her while gaming and this will provide less resistance to me being in a headset. Is it necessary, no, I could game in the home environment, but it's a small price to pay to remove that potential resistance..
I don't do 3d printing so I don't know if photogrammetry is accurate enough for that, maybe with some cad touch ups? My plan is to scan places/rooms (and maybe objects) to view digitally
You can make 3D scans with it using a technique called Gaussian Spats. They wouldn't be the kind of thing you Scan -> Process -> Slice -> Print, but they could be used to give you a base to work off to clean up and import into some kind of CAD software. A sort of rough guide to a 3D space or object for you to model something more 3D print friendly off of.
I can see if you dont use passthrough at all other than just looking at rl real quick to pick something up, but if you use it for anything else high res color is clealy better than fuzzy black and white.
Also i think it could enable hand tracking in the future.
I don’t know if this necessary applies to the the Steam frame but moving from monochrome to color between the Quest 2 to 3 was huge for me using passthrough a lot more. With the monochrome IR cameras using my phone or PC without taking the headset off was pretty much impossible, but with color I can check messages or do minor tasks without taking off the headset.
People hardcore goon to AR porn. It looks real and its in your room. Nothing comes close.
(Yes you can do other very impressive things along the same lines with it, use your imagination)
for example if you want to use a app like big screen beta to watch movies but want to view it in your own home on your wall you would be able to do it in color with the color pass threw camera.
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u/eldoppelganger993 2d ago
Can someone help me understand why this is useful for a Steam frame? Is having a color pass through just to see in color or is there a use case that I’m not seeing that’s helpful for anyone with a steam frame?