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So, here we are talking about Meta’s Quest. Not just your regular virtual reality headset thingamajig—this one’s always used cameras. And it’s like, not just for pretty selfies or something mundane (ha!). These cameras figure out where everything is—headset, controllers, the whole shebang around you.
Anyway, the big deal? Developers didn’t get the camera keys for real until now—well, kinda. Earlier this year, the tech gods at Meta decided to let developers tinker with cameras in private. Sneaky, right? But now, boom! They can release public apps using this feature.
The latest buzzword—Passthrough Camera API—is letting people make apps for the Horizon store. With cameras from Quest 3 and 3S being all open now, you can conjure up mind-boggling stuff. Imagine your room scanned so thoroughly it almost feels sentient. Maybe it’ll start talking to you next. But yeah—computer vision—it means apps can see and understand what’s in the world, maybe even stalk your cat, if you’re into that.
Before this, it was kind of like those scenes where someone almost remembers something but doesn’t quite get it. Apps didn’t really see what the cameras saw. They got fed some processed info—like they were on a need-to-know basis. And maybe it was about privacy. Meta being Meta, with its history of privacy kerfuffles…so color me skeptical.
So, here we are now—last year—or was it March? Doesn’t matter. They said yep, cameras are open for a joy ride. But public apps? Only now are they cutting the ribbons. Developers have been waiting to get their hands dirty, but now they can splash that tech paint everywhere.
Let’s break down the nitty-gritty for you tech nerds (I mean it kindly, I swear):
– Cameras have latency—40-60ms.
– Streaming them eats a tiny bit of GPU, about 1-2%.
– 45MB of memory is like, whisked away for all this magic.
– Data’s zipping by at 30Hz. Which, I guess, is fast enough?
– Resolution maxes out at 1280×960.
Oh, and the format’s something called YUV420—nothing to do with smoky vibes, I promise.
Meta’s kindly dictating how camera data should be used. No creepy surveillance stuff, okay? And, um, don’t go playing detective with user identities. Policies and all that jazz.
That’s it! I’m off to ponder the mysteries of why anyone would want a headset to watch everything. Digital age, here we are!
