How to take even better Meta Quest 3 screenshots and recordings

Whereas XR headsets just like the Meta Quest 3 allow you to immerse your self in new worlds, or to see fantastical objects overlayed onto the true world, I can not present you that right here as a result of we’re not in a 3D atmosphere. We will, nonetheless, present you screenshots and display screen recordings that may show you how to think about what the expertise is like.

Additionally: Meta Quest 3 review: The VR headset most people should buy 

At present, I am going to stroll you thru the fundamental steps of capturing a screenshot or a display screen recording. I am additionally going to indicate you a couple of inventive strategies I’ve discovered that make a few of these captures extra usable by your readers.

The way to take a screenshot

Utilizing one in every of your meta controllers, press the Meta button and pull the set off.

The Meta button is the concave button on the controller. I discover that urgent that first after which shortly pulling and releasing the set off does the job fairly properly.

That was the science. Right here comes the artwork.

The way to take screenshot

Oddly sufficient, screenshots on the $500 Meta Quest 3 are a lot larger decision than screenshots on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro. The Imaginative and prescient Professional captures screens at 1920×1080. The Quest 3 captures them at 2160×2160.

A screenshot with a decision of 2160×2160 has 4,665,600 pixels, whereas a screenshot with a decision of 1920×1080 has 2,073,600 pixels. Which means the 2160×2160 Quest 3 screenshot has 125% extra pixels than the 1920×1080 screenshot. That is greater than twice the decision.

That is each a profit and an obstacle, relying on what you are making an attempt to seize a screenshot of. For articles like this, my assumption is you need to seize consumer interface screenshots — and people are deceptively difficult.

Check out the picture under. That is the web page within the Settings interface that gives the model quantity for the present software program.

It was taken by urgent the Meta button and pulling the set off when the window was at its default viewing distance. When utilizing the Quest 3, that window is kind of straightforward to see and skim. However as you possibly can see, there’s much more of the Quest atmosphere round it, with the atmosphere taking over nearly 90% of the picture you see.

Now take a look at this one:

It is a lot simpler to learn the model quantity, is not it? That is as a result of I moved the window ahead, utterly filling up the sphere of view. It was annoying, as a result of it felt like my nostril was urgent up in opposition to the window. However the good thing about that inconvenience was that the method allowed the main points I wished to fill the display screen and, subsequently, fill the body of the screenshot.

Additionally: I recorded spatial videos to view on Vision Pro and Quest 3 and you can download them

It is good to apply till you get the picture you need. This one is pulled ahead, however to not the purpose the place the picture was planted proper in my face.

As a result of the screenshot itself has a good variety of pixels, the picture above may very well be cropped and distorted in Photoshop.

The consequence is a reasonably clear screenshot:

In fact, in case your aim is to seize one thing apart from only a primary screenshot, do your finest to compose your shot by inserting your head simply so (as you’ll for those who had been capturing with a bodily digicam), and take the shot. That is the Blue Hills Gold Mine atmosphere, with a bit of Ranges adjustment offered by Photoshop.

That is my favourite atmosphere, so I’ve it set as my default.

The way to seize a display screen recording

There are two methods to seize a display screen recording. The primary is the one I normally use as a result of it’s miles sooner. Simply do precisely the identical factor you do to seize a screenshot, besides maintain the set off longer.

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So, maintain down the concave Meta button in your controller, after which maintain the set off till you see the crimson dot that signifies that you simply’re recording the display screen. As soon as that dot seems you possibly can launch the button and the set off. To finish the recording, as soon as once more maintain the button and the set off, this time till the crimson dot disappears.

The opposite means is to provoke it by way of the Digital camera interface. Faucet the digicam icon in your dashboard bar (proven at 1, under). We’ll come again to the merchandise indicated at 2 after we discuss display screen seize settings.

In any case, when you click on the digicam icon, you will see the Digital camera interface. Discover the Report button. Additionally, discover that many of the clips under the report button say “synced.” That signifies they have been synced all the way down to the Meta app on my iPhone. We’ll come again to that later, as properly.

For now, although, go forward and faucet the Report button in your digital view. You will see this immediate.

As you possibly can see, the above dialog has an “Embody mic audio” choice. That is the one actual purpose I can see for utilizing the the longer strategy of going into the Digital camera icon, hitting Report and confirming over simply hitting the Meta button and pulling the set off. It permits you to add commentary proper over your recording.

The way to enhance display screen recording decision

By default, the Meta Quest 3 creates sq. display screen recordings at 1024×1024 decision. I do not know why, but it surely does. You possibly can bump that as much as the identical 1920×1080 decision that the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional makes use of for its display screen recordings by tweaking a couple of settings.

Additionally: Meta Quest 3 vs. Apple Vision Pro: How accurate was Zuckerberg’s review?

First, go into the Quest’s settings by clicking within the mini management space on the dashboard, as proven in (2) above. Then click on the gear icon you will see within the higher left nook of the principle management panel display screen. That provides you with the principle Settings interface. Click on Digital camera.

There are fairly a couple of digicam settings you possibly can tweak; for now, simply scroll down till you see Facet Ratio and alter it from Sq. to Panorama. This variation sticks, so you will not have to return and do it once more the subsequent time — until you need it sq.. It is hip to be sq., however the movies aren’t fairly as good.

The way to switch screenshots and recordings off the machine

That is the place screenshots on the Apple Vision Pro work rather more easily than on the Quest 3. Once you take a screenshot or seize a display screen recording on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, that media drops into the Pictures app, which is mechanically synced to iCloud, after which to all of your different Apple units. As soon as iCloud syncs, you possibly can copy a number of screenshots or recordings without delay to the desktop, just by choosing a number of gadgets and dragging and dropping.

Additionally: Apple Vision Pro tricks: How to take perfect screenshots and recordings (and avoid weirdness)

Against this, the method for transferring recorded screenshots and video is a ache on the Quest 3. As soon as the media syncs to your app in your cellphone (iOS or Android), you will see your photos and recordings within the Gallery interface of the Meta app.

However you possibly can’t simply choose a set of photos you need and save them to a folder. No, you need to choose every one individually and switch it. On the iPhone, I take advantage of the customarily annoying AirDrop to perform this.

For this text, I collected 33 screenshots and movies, which I needed to then filter by means of on my pc to determine which I wished to make use of. By the point I used to be achieved… properly, let’s simply say my profanity function received a reasonably good exercise and my annoyance meter had entered properly into the “cranky” zone.

But it surely works, so there’s that.

Some pattern recordings

You’ve got seen the screenshot high quality all by means of this text, however I believed you may need to see a few video captures as properly.

This primary video reveals the few frames after I began a display screen recording by way of the digicam interface. It gives a brief go searching on the Blue Hills Gold Mine atmosphere.

This second video reveals a accomplished puzzle from the Puzzling Places recreation. You possibly can kind of see the snow texture within the video. However contained in the Quest 3, that appears like actual snow. It is fairly wonderful.

And there we’re. You now know methods to seize screenshots and make display screen recordings. What do you assume? Have you ever taken any screenshots or made any display screen recordings inside your headset? What was your expertise? Tell us within the feedback under.

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