Head-Mounted Electronic Device with Display Recording Capability

A method of operating an electronic device, comprising:

• with a graphics rendering pipeline, rendering virtual content;
• with one or more tracking sensors, obtaining user tracking information;
• with a virtual content compositor, compositing virtual frames based on the virtual content and the user tracking information;
• with one or more cameras, capturing a video feed;
• merging the composited virtual frames and the captured video feed to output merged video frames having a first quality;
• and
• with a recording pipeline, recording content having a second quality higher than the first quality.

A method of operating an electronic device, comprising:

• generating a first composited frame based on virtual content and user tracking information;
• displaying a first frame that is formed by merging the first composited frame with a passthrough video frame;
• creating a compositor descriptor listing a plurality of image correction functions or parameters applied when generating the first composited frame;
• generating a second composited frame based on the virtual content and the compositor descriptor;
• and
• recording a second frame that is formed by merging the second composited frame with the passthrough video frame, wherein a first portion of the second frame is different than a corresponding first portion of the first frame while a second portion of the second frame is identical to a corresponding second portion of the first frame.