Black & white pass-through coupled with panels with noticeable screen-door effect? WTF is Valve thinking? If you're going to challenge Quest, you've got some bare minimum specs & features you should meet in 2025/2026–color pass-through being at the top of the list. And why would anyone settle for VR kit with noticeable screen-door in this day & age? Nothing about this device suggests it is much of an upgrade at all. It sure seems like Gabe is merely using this device to keep Steam fan-boys in their ecosystem more than raising the bar or innovating. I was really enthusiastic about spending $1200 on this new kit, but after seeing the specs I'm not enthusiastic about buying it even if it costs the same $500 as a Quest 3. I know there's going to be a ton of hype about this kit, but you'd have to be a moron to be enthusiastic about a headset that–when it ships in 2026–will NOT have color pass-through, will NOT have hand & finger tracking, will NOT have lenses as good as Quest 3, will NOT have a robust library of recent standalone games….what a huge let-down.
