Description And Controls
I've been looking around for a minimal way to record video footage when in vr. I didn't want to run OBS because I'm lazy and figured I should be able to using Nvidias built in recording stuff. It took a fair bit of looking around for the easiest way to do it inside VR but this is it.
The controls I use are; squeeze the 'Left Controller Grip' and mash the 'Right Thumbpad' to start/stop recording, and squeeze the 'Right Controller Grip' and mash the 'Left Thumbpad' to save instant replay. I don't have an AMD gpu but I imagine their Relive recording stuff should be able to do the same thing through system hotkeys.
The setup is slightly tedious and requires nvidia experience to be installed, the overlay to be active, and SteamVR to be mirroring the headset feed. If you use other recording software just replace the hotkeys with the ones you use.
Here we go:
Pre Setup
Setup Step 1: Hit 'Alt+Z' on your keyboard to ensure you have the Nvidia Experience Overlay running with instant replay enabled if you want that (I enable instant replay manually before gaming but you could also set a hotkey binding for it with the third custom keyboard entry if you wanted). I changed the default directories for mine so they save to a different ssd than the one I play vr games on to hopefully minimize performance impact.
Setup Step 2: Have OVR Advanced Settings installed
Setup Step 3: To activate SteamVRs 'Display View' by right clicking on the headset in the SteamVR Taskbar and clicking 'Display View'. For best results fullscreen it, right click on the video feed and select 'Both Eyes (Left Dominant)'. It pops up in fullscreen for me everytime though I do seem to have to minimize the SteamVR dock everytime as well annoyingly.
Setup Step 4: Open SteamVR > Open Settings > Startup / Shutdown > Manage Overlay Apps > Enable OVR Advanced settings at startup, restart SteamVR then shutdown VR when down (Making sure OVR creates its settings page).
Main Setup
Step 1: Navigate to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\AdvancedSettings-Team and open OVR Advanced Settings.ini. Scroll to line 93 [keyboard shortcuts] underneath that is keyboardOne and you need to replace it with 'keyboardOne=*F9' without the quotes for the start stop recording and then replace keyboardTwo with 'keyboardTwo=*G0' for the instant replay save hotkey. Save and exit. More info on keyboard bindings here https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings/blob/master/docs/keyboard_input_guide.md
Mine looks like this;
[keyboardShortcuts]
keyboardOne=*F9
keyboardTwo=*G0
followed by the rest of the default [keyboardShortcuts] lines underneath
Step 2: Start VR. Bring up the SteamVR Menu > OVR Advanced Settings Menu (Icon is on the leftside of the bar) > Bindings. This will open the OVR Advanced settings SteamVR Controller Bindings Menu. (You can either back out of this page and find "Brocks easy video capture bindings" in the custom controller bindings page or you can do the next few steps. I made the bindings for Index controllers so they may not show up for other controllers.)
Step 3: Inside the menu click the Misc tab. Scroll down the left side until you see 'Grip', hit the little '+' beside it, and hit 'Button' on the prompt. On the right side scroll down until you see 'Trackpad' and hit the '+' and then 'Button' again.
Step 4: Hit the 'Add Chord' button, then 'Keyboard Shortcut One' at the prompt. This will dump you to the controller chords page with keyboard shortcut one hooked up to one of the commands you setup. For me its 'Keyboard Shortcut One' > 'Left Hand Grip'. You need to click 'add input to chord' and add the 'Right Hand Trackpad' (or whatever you setup). Both of them should have 'Button Click' beneath them.
Step 5: Add another chord for 'Keyboard Shortcut Two', by repeating the steps 3 and 4 but for opposite hands.
Should look like this;
Step 6: Try out your the hotkeys.
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2582318740