Meta Reality Labs / Camera access
Passthrough Camera API
We worked on early prototyping and developer samples for Meta Quest’s Passthrough Camera API.
- Our focus
- Early prototyping & developer samples

The challenge
Help developers turn access to Quest’s cameras into useful mixed reality interactions, beyond displaying a camera feed.
The work
Our work at Meta covered early prototyping and developer-facing samples for passthrough camera access. We also open-sourced QuestCameraKit, a collection of Unity examples for exploring camera-driven workflows such as color sampling, object detection, and QR tracking.
- Early passthrough camera prototypes and developer samples
- QuestCameraKit Unity examples
- Practical demos and tutorials for camera-driven interactions
The result
Working examples that help developers connect real-world image data to mixed reality content on Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S.