How to take a screenshot on Oculus Rift (after the 2.0 update)

Rift Core 2.0, the in-progress software overhaul for Oculus Rift, has made it much easier to navigate the system using only Touch controllers, and it has added some personality to your Home area. There are a bunch more than neat features — similar a quality congenital-in desktop viewer — but in that location nonetheless isn't an obvious style to snap a screenshot. Until Rift Core 2.0 gets a truthful screenshot button, there's a workaround that volition let you capture what y'all're seeing.

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How to take a screenshot with Oculus Rift

In order to come across on your standard monitor what's being displayed within the Oculus Rift, y'all tin can apply an Oculus Mirror tool that'south included with the Rift install.

Launch File Explorer from your Start carte du jour, desktop, or taskbar.
Click Windows (C:). If the primary install is on a different bulldoze, click that bulldoze instead.
Double-click Plan Files.
Double-click Oculus.
Double-click Back up.
Double-click oculus-diagnostics.
Double-click OculusMirror.

Rather than showing both optics at in one case, the Oculus Mirror now shows a consummate view, just as you lot'd be seeing within the headset. You tin click and elevate this window to brand it larger, but call up that it might non wait as crisp equally you change the dimensions.

With Mirror open and showing the view inside the Rift, you tin can now nab a screenshot as you normally would, using the Windows key + Prt Scr shortcut on your keyboard. If the window isn't fullscreen you'll accept some cropping to do, but if you lot record footage with something like OBS, yous'll be able to specifically cull the Mirror window.

How to alter the Oculus mirror

The 16:9 default Mirror view works wonders for grabbing screenshots or recording video, just y'all might desire to instead show both eyes separately or but the view of one eye. Here's how to brand those changes.

Launch File Explorer from your Starting time carte, desktop, or taskbar.
Click Windows (C:). If the primary install is on a different drive, click that drive instead.
Double-click Programme Files.
Double-click Oculus.
Double-click Back up.
Double-click oculus-diagnostics.
Right-click OculusMirror.
Click Create shortcut.
Click Yeah.
Right-click OculusMirror - Shortcut on your desktop.
Click Properties.
Click the Target field so that your cursor is at the finish of the cord.
Type a command.
Click Apply.
Click OK.

For step 13, there are a few commands you tin attempt:

--RectilinearBothEyes — Both eyes are shown split up from each other.

--RightEyeOnly — You see simply the right eye's view.
--LeftEyeOnly — You run into only the left centre'southward view.

Always launch the Oculus Mirror with the desktop shortcut you created and modified in order to run across the changes. At any time, you tin can remove the command from the Target field in order to return to normal.