Q: How to take screenshots in VR?

[Micha]

Recently I've been playing a LOT more in VR. Slowly getting more and more comfortable without triple monitors. I can "pin" windows into my cockpit using Oculus Dash, but still missing the third-party tools and information I'm used to having around me.


Anyway, as part of DW2, screenshots are a bit part of an exploration expedition. So how do you take decent screenshots in VR? Apart from how to get a nice centered shot my main issue is the FoV; it's tiny in VR!

Exacerbating this issue is that the external camera seems to have the zoom/fov settings disabled in vr (at least, the keybindings are still there, but they don't do anything, and the instructions don't pop up either).


So, any hints and tips for a VR photographer?

 

[Chaz]

It's only worth taking the hi res screenshots in VR, and when you do you have to keep your head very very still, as it tiles the shot from lots of snaps (or at least it did last time I try, not sure if that's been changed yet). It's hard to get a good shot in other words, and if you really want to take some good shots then to be honest you're looking at switching over to 2D to do so.

 

[Quo_Vadam]

The High Resolution Screenshot is Left Alt-F10. But, it only works in Solo mode. Also, if you have an nVidia graphics card, nVidia co-opts Alt-F10 for one of its own features, so make sure that you go in the nVidia software and change that keybinding to something else. Finally, as stated, make sure that you hold your head still. I was taking a screenshot last night and it did not come out right.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

The High Resolution Screenshot is Left Alt-F10. But, it only works in Solo mode. Also, if you have an nVidia graphics card, nVidia co-opts Alt-F10 for one of its own features, ...

Only if you have GeForce experience installed and none should have that POS bloatware installed, if you do, get rid if it and setup OBS for game capture.

High res screenshots was broken for ages, then I think they fixed it but they tend to break it soon after again.
Not sure of it's current state.

 

[Micha]

High-res screenshots seem to work better than normal ones, but you still don't get anywhere near the FoV that you get in 2d. Bummer.

It's also rather disconcerting to use as the display flashes all over the place as it generates the tiles. Having said that, it seems to work fine in PG, not just Solo.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

The High Resolution Screenshot is Left Alt-F10. But, it only works in Solo mode. Also, if you have an nVidia graphics card, nVidia co-opts Alt-F10 for one of its own features, so make sure that you go in the nVidia software and change that keybinding to something else. Finally, as stated, make sure that you hold your head still. I was taking a screenshot last night and it did not come out right.

It also works in private groups.
The image taken is portrait, so to avoid this enter free camera mode, turn the camera 90 degrees and press alt+f10.

 

[The Lawful]

FWIW, I use plain F10 and assigned a Voice Attack command to it, so that I can just say 'take photo' while looking at the thing to picture. It's far from optimal because of the FoV and the low resolution (don't know whether the pic is actually taken from the Rift or the control window instead) and definitely won't win a price, but it does the job for simple shots. Might try ALT-F10 instead, but that takes rather long and the image swirls around, not too nice in VR.

EDIT: It seems to be possible with SteamVR as well, as described here:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-the-oculus-rift/

Menu button + trigger on the left touch controller it seems to be, but as I use neither the controllers nor SteamVR, I can't say anything more.

O7,
[noob]

 

[TorTorden_VR]

FWIW, I use plain F10 and assigned a Voice Attack command to it, so that I can just say 'take photo' while looking at the thing to picture. It's far from optimal because of the FoV and the low resolution (don't know whether the pic is actually taken from the Rift or the control window instead) and definitely won't win a price, but it does the job for simple shots. Might try ALT-F10 instead, but that takes rather long and the image swirls around, not too nice in VR.

EDIT: It seems to be possible with SteamVR as well, as described here:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/virtual-reality/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-the-oculus-rift/

Menu button + trigger on the left touch controller it seems to be, but as I use neither the controllers nor SteamVR, I can't say anything more.

O7,
[noob]

It uses the control window which is left eye only, cropped to what aspect ratio the displayed window is set to.
And by default that's a fairly low res image, and being cropped what you see as dead ahead in the rift is top right corner of the picture.

The high res capture I think takes the whole left panel image and quadruple the resolution.

 

[Kellan Fell]

Voice Attack