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Editorial Methodology

Last reviewed 16 June 2026 · maintained by the PassthroughTube editorial team.

This page documents how a scene becomes a listing on PassthroughTube, what counts as “real” passthrough vs ordinary 180° VR, and where AI assistance enters the pipeline. We publish this so that you can decide whether to trust the catalogue and so that Google's quality raters can see we treat the site as edited content rather than scaled output.

1. The passthrough classification rule

A scene qualifies for the catalogue only if it is tagged as passthrough, AR, or mixed reality by the source studio. We do not re-tag 180° VR scenes as passthrough. Borderline cases (e.g. partial-room blends) are tested by an editor on a Quest 3 before listing — if the scene does not visibly use the user's physical room, it is rejected from the catalogue.

2. Per-headset verification

Every scene that lands in the index is tested against the headset matrix — Quest 3 as primary, Vision Pro and Quest Pro as secondary. The per-device support tags on each scene page reflect actual playback behaviour, not just the studio's marketing claims.

3. AI-assistance disclosure

We use large language models to draft on-page summaries from the structured catalogue data (title, runtime, models, categories, passthrough type). The model never invents facts about a scene that are not already in the structured data. Drafts are reviewed by an editor before publication; pages that do not pass review remain noindex and are excluded from the sitemap.

Every page that uses AI-assisted copy carries a visible “Editorial note” aside. We do not bury this disclosure in the terms of service.

4. Indexing rules

  • Studios with fewer than five released passthrough scenes are noindex.
  • Combination category pages (slug+slug) are noindex.
  • Search and sort variants are excluded via robots.txt.
  • Scenes flagged for review (likely-underage tags, missing 2257) are removed.
  • Affiliate redirects under /gg/ are blocked from crawling.

5. Editor review SLA

New scenes are reviewed by an editor within 7 days of ingest. Hand-written reviews exist for the top studios in the catalogue and are re-audited quarterly. Because the AR niche is small, we sample every catalogue change rather than relying on random re-scoring.

6. Corrections and takedowns

If you spot an inaccuracy on a scene page, email [email protected] with the URL and we will correct it within 72 hours. For copyright or 2257 issues see our DMCA page.