In-game media content capture in a virtual environment with inspect and buy features

A non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a processing device, causes the processing device to perform or control performance of operations to capture and manage storage of in-game media content in a virtual experience, the operations comprising:

• receiving, at a user device, a request to capture the in-game media content while an avatar associated with a user of the user device participates in the virtual experience;
• capturing the in-game media content on the user device, wherein the captured in-game media content is associated with a temporary content identifier (ID) and includes one or more pieces of the in-game media content;
• storing the captured in-game media content in a temporary storage of the user device, the temporary storage configured to provide a storage location to store the captured in-game media content until the user of the user device instructs the user device to store the captured in-game media content in a persistent storage of the user device;
• detecting an overflow of a storage capacity of the temporary storage of the user device;
• in response to detecting the overflow of the storage capacity, prompting a developer to select a particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove from the temporary storage wherein the developer selection is via a callback function that has as a parameter a content ID of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove;
• in response to receiving developer selection of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove, removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content from the temporary storage using the content ID of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to access the particular piece of the captured in-game media content when removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content;
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• in response to no developer selection in response to the prompting, automatically selecting the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove and removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content from the temporary storage.

A system comprising:

• a memory with instructions stored thereon;
• and
• a processing device, coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to access the memory and execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the processing device to perform or control performance of operations to capture and manage storage of in-game media content in a virtual experience, the operations comprising:
• receiving, at a user device, a request to capture the in-game media content while an avatar associated with a user of the user device participates in the virtual experience;
• capturing the in-game media content on the user device, wherein the captured in-game media content is associated with a temporary content identifier (ID) and includes one or more pieces of the in-game media content;
• storing the captured in-game media content in a temporary storage of the user device, the temporary storage configured to provide a storage location to store the captured in-game media content until the user of the user device instructs the user device to store the captured in-game media content in a persistent storage of the user device;
• detecting an overflow of a storage capacity of the temporary storage of the user device;
• in response to detecting the overflow of the storage capacity, prompting a developer to select a particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove from the temporary storage wherein the developer selection is via a callback function that has as a parameter a content ID of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove;
• in response to receiving developer selection of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove, removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content from the temporary storage using the content ID of the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to access the particular piece of the captured in-game media content when removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content;
• and
• in response to no developer selection in response to the prompting, automatically selecting the particular piece of the captured in-game media content to remove and removing the particular piece of the captured in-game media content from the temporary storage.