Ever sinceFacebook purchased Oculus VRin 2014, theOculus Rifthas been one of the most talked about virtual reality headsets in the world. It and theHTC Viveoffer room-scale VR that allows you to move around in some of the most dazzling sights and sounds. The Rift also allows you to take a screenshot of a piece of those immersive experiences.

Taking a screenshot on the Oculus Rift is a bit similar totaking a screenshoton theSamsung Gear VR, but with its own set of wrinkles. Before we show you how to take a screenshot in VR with the Oculus Rift, you’ll need to getSteamVR.

Step 1 – InstallSteamVR

Open theOculus desktop appand click on the gear icon at the top to enter theSettingssection. On the left-side menu, selectGeneral.The first option at the top of the next screen saysUnknown Sourceswith a switch next to it. Click on the switch, and then click theAllowbutton once prompted. Now, you can run apps from outside of the Oculus store ecosystem.

Do not close the Oculus desktop app, but instead open up yourinternet browser of choice. Go to the officialSteam storeand click on theInstall Steam Nowbutton to download the program. Once you are done installing Steam on your computer and have opened the program, a pop-up should appear giving you the option to installSteamVR. If that does not appear, click on theLibrarybutton at the top. Then type “SteamVR” into the the search box next to the phrase “Tools.” Once SteamVR appears in the search results, right-click on it and then click “Install.”

Once the installation process is over, you should see a “VR” icon at the top next to the game controller icon. Click on the VR icon and SteamVR will be launched.

Step 2 – Find something good to screenshot

Your SteamVR is all setup and now you’re ready to capture some VR goodness. But, first you have to find something to be the center of your screenshot. On the desktop Steam program, click on the magnifying glass icon next to the search box at the top. This will take you to the the library of everything available on Steam.

To find the right VR experience for you, scroll down until you seeNarrow by VR supportoption. Click both theVR SupportedandVR Onlyboxes, and then scroll down toHeadsetsand click theOculus Riftbox. From there you can sift through the pages of VR experiences and/or further narrow your search by types of content and other filters.

Once you’ve found something worthy of your eyes, click on your selection, launch the experience, and put your headset back on.

Okay — now that most of the heavy clicking is over, you’re almost ready to get a good screenshot in VR on your Rift. Once you find the part of your VR experience you wish to screenshot, simply hold down themenubutton on yourleft-hand Touch controller, and quickly afterwards hold down thetriggerbutton. Hold those two buttons together for a few seconds and a “screenshot taken” notification will appear on your desktop. Congratulations, you have now taken a piece of VR and made it a screenshot that you may share with the world.

Step 4 –Locating Your Screenshot

Taking a screenshot in VR on the Oculus Rift is relatively simple. Finding it? Not so much. You’ll need to click on the folder icon on you desktop toolbar to enterFile Explorer.From there you click on theThis PCoption found on the left-side menu of options. This will take you to a collection of folders on your computer’s hard drive, you want to click on theProgram Files(x86)folder. Afterwards, click on theSteamfolder and then theuserdatafolder.

This is where things get complicated. The data from the SteamVR experiences are organized in folders with long strings of numbers. You will need to keep clicking through those folders until you find ascreenshotfolder. This is what the file path normally looks like:userdata > String of numbers (1) > String of numbers (2) > remote > String of numbers (3) > screenshots.But, once you find the folder, viewing your screenshot will be as easy as clicking on the image.