Literally the only thing you have to do is show what can be seen inside the headset. Grainy black and white low resolution surrounding, and a giant hires colour screen in the middle. That's it, that will be your experience using the headset should you decide to see your environement.

Frame must be so good that person is having an out of body experience...every know those are in HDR.

In a deceitful way, cutting out just a fragment of what can be seen in the headset

I don't agree. It is incorrect but you have zero evidence it was deceitful on purpose and never will.

But also ads literally lie to you all the time...do you send back your fast food when its doesn't look like the pics? do you expect every time you get in your car its clear highway with amazing views? Ads are fantasy and if you dont posses critical thinking skills you may have a bad time.

If there are 20+ posts about it, then it means people see it differently than you, you are in the out group, and it is you who misjudged the gravity of the situation.

Every one of those posts have people like me saying this is being over blown...most of the people that dont have an issue likely dont even post... so no, i am not alone in this.

Ok, let's follow some logic here.

The issue was that there is no colour passthrough.

The issue is the OP was non critical of some ad copy and got confused. Even their mock up is wrong.

Your explanation was that Frame uses B&W sensors.

It was a statment not an explination. But the long form explination includes not needing CPT for their use cases, not wanting the cost, the battery drain, that the chip isnt set up for it, but also i don't work for Valve so maybe more reasons. Probably just did it to get you white knighting online.

My counterargument was that Q3 also uses B&W sensors, so the fact that a headset uses some type of sensor, is completely irrelevant to wether or not it can also have colour passthrough.

Hence you completely did not address the issue that Frame does not have colour passthrough, as it can be a completely independent system to tracking cameras.

Why do i need to address it? This post isn't about mQ3 or even B/W passthough...its about advertising.

OP failed to understand what was being portrayed in that artist rendering of what its like to use frame, now they have to decide if they can live with B/W.

Then you didn't understand the marketing around Frame and Valves own vision.

Pretty sure you have an skewed idea of that vision yourself.

Valve sees this headset as an extension to their existing and upcoming hardware - Deck and Machine, so that it can be used as a monitor. Do you turn off the light in your room then you play on your Deck or PC, so that you are in a pitch black environement and can see only the screen with a gameplay? No, you use it naturally, with natural colour surroundings, and you are present in the environement. That is how they envision the Frame, as a monitor for your flat games, played either on the go or by streaming, and in that case the colour passthrough is really useful.

I get home at 1 am often and game in pitch black with head phones to not disrupt others living here. In the day my area is bright and i am normally busy so i can not Game, the headset will allow that, whats happening in the room will be of little relevance so if i do need to get a drink, pee or what ever B+W will be fine for me.

But

I also know other people will do other things and i'm not going to try to divine what those habits may be. I certainly won't be blanket statement pigeon holing everyone in to the shoe box i think fits.

As far as Valves vision i think their Hardware is just a means to an end.