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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by bitL on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:50AM (#27539542)
A little off-topic - does anyone know why Steam takes screenshots of VR content played in a headset? I've noticed multiple times that Steam's Screen Capture process ended up hanging with HP Reverb G2 and am wondering why do they need to take screenshots? I'd have expected that from Facebook (privacy lol) but don't understand why Steam bothers with it?
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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by june11 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:21PM (#27545080)
Its for the in vr steam overlay to display your desktop. Steam compositor also takes a copy of the vr view to display within the little steamvr window, in the PIP view.
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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by rightbyte on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:03AM (#27539670)
Is it a multiplayer game? I know eg. Battlefield 2 took screenshots for game server admins to look for cheaters. In the good old days where I wouldn't suspect the screenshots to be used for big data spying ..
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