Have you ever been in the middle of a cool virtual reality experience and suddenly wanted to take a picture of something that just came in view? You’ll likely fiddle your fingers around your Samsung Gear VR headset until you give up in frustration. Don’t worry, there is actually a simple way to take a screenshot in virtual reality on your Gear VR and share it with your friends on social media.
The screenshots taken on the Gear VR will be JPG files with a 1024 × 1024 resolution. Your full panoramic view in the experience will not be captured, so you have to make sure you get the right shot. While it’s not as easy as taking a screenshot on a PC, taking a screenshot in virtual reality on the Gear VR isn’t all that difficult either.
Step 1: Find what you want to capture
Taking a screenshot in VR is a bit more complicated than pressing a few buttons quickly, so your best bet to getting a good one is to find what you want to capture and press pause on the experience. Even if you pause the experience right at the moment you want to capture, the experience will resume once you are readying it for a screenshot.
There will be a five second timer before the screenshot is taken, so you will have to be quick to click the pause button. I suggest pausing the experience a few seconds prior to the moment you wish to screenshot, giving yourself more time to pause it at exactly the frame you want.
Step 2 : Capture the image
Once you’ve got the image in VR you wish to capture, hold down the back button on the upper-right hand side of the headset for three seconds. That will take you out of the experience and into the settings page. From there, hover the cursor over the Capture & Share tab and click. In this section, you’ll see the screenshot button, which is located right above the Screenshot Galleryof all of the images taken in VR.
Once you click on the screenshot button, you will be taken back to the experience in progress. A red dot will flash for five seconds in the upper right hand corner of your view. Once the five seconds are up, the screen with briefly flash black. You’ll even hear a camera shutter sound, indicating that the screenshot was taken.
Voila! In no time at all you were able to capture a screenshot in VR.
Source: Digital Trends