How to set up OBS for VR recording and streaming
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- This tutorial will cover how to set up OBS to bring in your game play from VR. This includes configuring audio sources as well as which eye view you will want to use. From there you can either stream or record. This will be the first in a series of how to start streaming in/with VR, so make sure to subscribe to get future videos.
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Download OBS: obsproject.com/download
Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Adding a new scene in OBS
01:34 - Configuring Steam VR for OBS
02:23 - Which Steam VR Eye view to choose
04:39 - Adding a new source in OBS for VR
05:12 - Configuring Audio sources
05:54 - What are default audio devices
07:10 - Verifying audio sources are working
08:27 - Streaming and Recording settings
Clearly a natural instructor. Looking forward to the other guides.
Out of the dozens of videos I’ve watched during this rabbit whole deep dive, THIS is the most informative and cohesive video hands down. Thank you! This is a huge help.
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Thank you!
Agreed bro nobody talks about all this information😭 she made it simple and informative!
Thank you so much !
Y’all CZcams algorithm is so weird. My friend just told me to use SteamVR and before I could even search on CZcams this popped up. Thank you!
I wish I had you for everything OBS. So nice and clear. I was able to pay attention without skipping a beat. Very informative!
Thank you so much!! Your guide was like the only one on YT I found that actually explains how to set it up completely. Cheers!
This was such an easy to follow video that was really helpful. I'm surprised at how this isn't more popular. Thank you!
Perfect video! Thanks a lot for the clear explanations. This is exactly what I needed to record HP Reverb G2 at 1440p resolution instead of the WMR 1080p display!
Great guide! Thank you for sharing!
This Is perfect! Super helpful and detailed information! Gonna use this to play now
This was a VERY, VERY DETAILED review! Kudos!
I have a tip regarding quality when capturing the SteamVR VR view window, especially if you use lots of supersampling in SteamVR, like 300% and above.
The capture quality will depend on the size of the VR view window, meaning, if you fullscreen it on a 4K display, the captured quality will be better than if you fullscreen it on a 1080p display, even if the OBS canvas is 1080p.
The reason for this is that the VR view window point-samples from the VR image, leaving most of the rendered pixels unsampled to the VR view window since the VR image is of a lot higher resolution.. So the larger you make the VR view window, the more samples are retained.
OBS can then downsample the 4K window using high quality filters like Lanczos or Bicubic that take all samples into account, effectivly supersampling a 1080p image from a 4K source.
The performance penalty of capturing in 4k vs 1080p is about 3% on my 3080.
yup, I dont recall this in the video but it explains why my capture looks like 320x240 lol
@@MtnXfreeride There is a plugin for OBS called OpenVR input plugin. It captures the headset view directly at full resolution. Its much better. I didn't know about it when writing my previous comment.
Wow, this was way more in depth than the others I’ve seen, thanks this rlly helped!
Thank you!!
What I I am actually looking for is the 3:15(Both eyes streaming), because if you have a 3D TV all of your friends in the same room can activate the Side-by-side 3D mode, and than everybody on the room can enjoy on TV what someone is playing on VR, which is super fun!
THANK YOU So DAMN MUCH!!!! I wasted over 3 hours today trying to figure this out and all the videos i saw were talking about a ton of random bs that didnt matter, so once again, THAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
love the vid and i'm happy you're posting tutorials!! great idea :) love your cat headset as well
Thank you! I love my cat headset as well :) I might have to get another one in black.
omg. I searched up entire internet to find out how to get steamvr to showup as a full window, glad that I finally stomp upon your video. thank you
Awesome work! Good to find this!
Very helpful video, thank you!
Super handy! Thanks Sky Candy!
Thank you for this, it was very clear and concise.
Great video. Very clear sound and great content. Good job. Keep it up
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Omg your the only clear one about this video thank you so much it helped a lot and good job keep up the good work😃
This was super helpful and straight to the point, thanks!
Glad you liked it!!!
Very needed lol. Thanks!
I'll echo the sentiments of the comment section - this is the best guide for how to set up VR recording.
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OMG THANK YOU! This vid is super helpful! 😃
So easy to go by and setup. Thank you
Very helpful! Thank you!
Excellent tutorial. Going to try this.
awesome tutorial, you're a natural, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Sky Candy you rock nice tutorial!
Great Tutorial - to the point ! Perfect
Thank you for the awesome tutorial!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! You saved my half-life 2 vr playthrough!
Great tutorial! Thank you so much!
very informative! thanks!
thank you so much, subbed!you are a legend
This was great, thanks
Great video. Thanks for the help
Thank you! another great tutorial!!
thank you so much! this was super helpful for someone who wants to stream for the first time :)
thanks so much for this! i'm just starting to get into streaming but i didn't realize its different for VR so this is helpful!
Great video, very useful info. Thanks!
Great video! Fast and right to the point!
Thank you!
Great video thankyou so much !!
The only video that really helped me. Thank you!
Great tutorial. I just ordered a Quest 3. It arrives first thing in the morning! When OBS was new, I tried it and had all kinds of issues. I had a difficult time removing it. But this was over 10 years ago and I may have downloaded a bogus version. Now that I know it's the standard and want to produce more content, I'm giving it another shot.
This was too helpful thanks
thank you for helping me keep up the great work
finally a good explanation thanks!
Thank you and you slayed it girl
THIS VIDEOS HELPED ME SO MUCH, ive been struggling with the ovr toolkit not showing up
Glad that it helped out!
Perfect. Thank!
Bro this helped sooo muchhh
Thanks love this is just the right information I have been looking for. And believe me when I say I have looked at many videos before I found this. 👍👍👍😛
Fantastic video!!!!!
Thank you so much!!! You saved me hours of trying to figure it out alone. Very thorough video helped me tons! 💛
Thank you! i was looking for a good tutorial for good performance for recording with OBS.
great video it helped me thanks !
Thank you for this I just got my Quest 2 head set yesterday and your videos have already help me
Glad to hear it!
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God bless this woman and giver life to continue making this tutorials.
Thank you for this sister. Twice the information in half the amount of time than any other video offered. Appreciate you. Sky Candy. Mind Candy. Eye Candy. Would say you got the candies covered, sister.
Thank you! I'm glad it helped out! I do love the candies!
tyvm was helpful
Thanks a lot 🙏
Halleluja!!! Thx for your Video. Exactly what I needed and after Hours of Watchtime not found. Thanks for helping me👍
thank you i want to record some of my H3vr gameplay because i play on my quest 2 with airlink and i thought i couldnt but thank you for the great turtorial
thanks for the video it helped me learn how to use obs cheers
THANK YOU for this video omg. I love you. This video made it so quick and easy for me, now I can go evacuate these dang plane passengers on air stew sim 🙏
thanks for the informative video. But the settings you went over in the last part of the video is the thing I wanted a more in-depth help with. I can do all the other stuff no problem but I always lag in vr when I stream so I wanted to see if there was a video that could help me.
Thanks 🙏 👍❤️
sky candy, you are an absolutely BEAUTIFUL and MAGTNIFICENT human being, thank you so much, i just started vr recording, and could not for the life of me figure out how to fix this, you saved me, thank you, i'm giving you a shout out in my next video!
Glad it helped :)
Thank you so much. About to go to the next video how to bring in chat
nice tutorial
I never realized you can use vrminitor as a game capture source! I've only used display capture in past, but I keep hearing game capture is better performance wise. Thanks!
phenomenal instruction. now i need to figure out if i need to implement liv or not. i think it looks good as well. Also, now i need to figure out why no mans sky is showing both eyes during game play on my pc lol
EXCELLENT! This helped a lot! Is the video on how to assign Index Controller Hotkeys out?
Thank you very much, that has helped me a lot! When recording is always the base screen resolution of the primary monitor used, which has me only 1920x1080? The VR glasses HP Reverb G2 would have a higher resolution of 2160x2160 pixels per eye. Is the VR image always recorded at 1920x1080? How is that with you? Could you change that - recording 1:1 from the VR image 2160x2160? Would this increase the field of view in the video? I use only VR for simracing. greetings Nik
Thank you
Wow I think this is it why I always get a weird view in shooters always the scope isn't in the middle and half on the screen. So steam view is the way to stream you're game now nice. I just did monitor game capture in obs
Amazing thank you :) Note, I had to run OBS as administrator to get rid of black screen.
I ran obs as administrator and it didn't fix the issue
awesome this was amazing tutorial I’m actually having a issue with the display footage overlapping any fixes for this ? Happens when it’s both eyes right eyes dominant ?
This was very helpful. Ihave this when I try starting up a stream the vr starts lagging really bad. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix that?
SUBBED!!!!!!!!!!!
I looked for a while for a solution to record the L4D2vr mod and had no luck. Finally i just messed with the settings myself, i was listening to 2-3 videos that said to use window capture but it just kept freezing up or recording the mods broken monitor and not my headset lol, i finally changed it to game capture. Could have saved myself the trouble if i just watched this instead.
The only issue i face now is stabalization in this janky, yet incredible mod. I think i need LIV, which is next on my radar from your catalogue. But i dread running all these programs on top of programs lol. It's so cumbersome to record quality VR content atm.
Thank you so much, appreciate your video. Do you know, how we can stabilize the VR recording when using Steam? There is a way to stabilize when using the Oculus Mirror App, but not sure how this works with Steam. Thanks a lot and keep rocking, cheers
I dont know off hand how that would be done.
THX
So I followed you instructions and got my OBS set up to stream my VR gaming. However When I looked at the playback of the stream I’m getting the semicircles on the edges and the bottom of where the edges of the VR are. How do I adjust this in OBS to only display the area that is actually visible and isn’t cut off ??
I know this a bit old by now, but I'm trying to record MSFS2020 on a reverb g2, using OBS. I followed your tutorial, but I'm running into a problem. OBS mirrors vrmonitor.exe the entire time - UNTIL I switch into vr mode (ctrl+tab in msfs2020). as soon as I do that, vrmonitor.exe shuts down, and all I record is a black screen. Have you encountered anything like this? And is there a solution?
I just started having this problem where when I Record or Stream on Obs while playing a VR Game on Steam VR the camera always looks to the left of where I'm Facing so in the recording you can only see whatever is to the left of my face and not what's in front of me. I have never had this problem before and this just randomly started happening today. I use an Oculus Quest with Virtual Desktop to Play Steam VR on Quest and I play it on a Gaming Laptop and I usually have no Problems.
Is there a way to make head movement smoothing like it does natively in the Oculus recording?
I have a few problems with this procedure. First when I capture the VrView window on OBS, I can see my steamVR Home perfectly, even on OBS, but when I get into the actual game, my OBS screen gets stuck in the VRview void with the game image in the middle of it, for some reason it doesn't record the actual game.
The second problem is that when I open OVR toolkit, I can see the twitch window chat in the SteamVR Home, but when I get into the game it doesn't show up at all. How can I fix?
Have you found a solution yet? I've been having the same problem, though it seems inconsistent. I'm trying out liv rn, but I have some issues with it.
Is there also a video for non steam, ie streaming VR from Oculus quest headset? I do have OBS already
This does work but i have a problem i bought my games on the oculus store and not steam is there still a way i can put my vr screen in to obs
Can this be done for Microsoft Flight Sim 2020, using HP Reverb, with OBS?
hey i need help. i had everything vine until i put my vr screen on obs. on obs, you could only see a little bit and it didnt capturn the full screen. all there is is a square, please help me.
So when I use the VR View, the framerate is much lower then what I actually see, is there anyway to uncap the FPS limits set in place by steam
how to do that for games run natively on the headset like Asgard?
Hey, whenever I tried to record on Steam VR on my Oculus Quest 2, the audio was messed up and sounded like a microwave, do you know how to fix this
I have a HP Reverb G2, but my Microsoft flight simulator is not through Steam VR. Can you use OBS without Steam? Thank you