We’ve relaunched Spatial to focus on being the Metaverse for culture events such as NFT exhibits, brand experiences, and conferences. Check out the all new Spatial including the following features:
🖼️ Auto Gallery - Quickly pull in your NFTs with your MetaMask integration, or any of your content, and let Spatial layout your works in your gallery or curate it yourself. The options are endless, our goal is to make it as simple as can be.
🥡 New Gallery - (coming later this week) We love this new gallery space, another option for our users looking to curate their art in the metaverse. You can also align art to the walls in any custom environment.
🌳 Spatial Park - (coming later this week)This new environment is both aesthetically and functionally beautiful. Designed as a meeting commons for our users to meet and peel off into different corners of Spatial together. We will feature rooms here and display a rotation of art. Plus we added Moderation to the space so you can report or block people who are causing trouble!
🚀 Performance Boost - Upload models that are twice as large on a Spatial that loads twice as fast! The fastest and lightest Spatial ever!
🎩 Improved Host Tools - Not only can you finally access host tools from the web, we also now allow anyone to lock their content in a room! Easier experience on all the levels.
🔭 Zoom - View NFTs up close from the web app, read the artist description and any sub text. Then click to view the product on another web page.
🏠 Spatial Home - This is a VR only feature, a space to land when you don your device and travel into the Metaverse. Decorate it, personalize it, invite your friends. Or keep it as a quiet reflective place where you can return from wherever your adventure takes you.
& Many More Changes:
Allow free users to restrict others from editing
Align content with walls on all environments
WEB New Content Menu
WEB New Improved Loading Screen
WEB New Environment loading effect
WEB New Host Tools UI
WEB Avatar Emote: Improved Claps and Emojis
WEB Easy Replace Content; Use the edit button on the selected object to select a replacement asset
WEB MetaMask Login Option
MOBILE Battery Saving Mode; Enabled from Settings Menu
MOBILE Template saving functionality added
HMD User Profile Menu; Accessible from subdock
HMD New first-time user tutorial
& Improvements:
- WEB Minimum WebGL requirements updated to 2.0+; Create separate WebGL1 build for unsupported browsers
- Performance & Speed: Bundle Size Reduction, Runtime Performance Improvements, Major runtime performance improvements in spaces with a lot of videos and gifs, Major memory optimizations for 3D models, Memory optimization: Completely unload videos that are not playing
- WEB Load Time Improvements
- WEB React layer performance improvements
- WEB Improved first-time load speed
- WEB Improved varying render pixel density to maintain consistent FPS
Voice
- Improved voice UX across all platforms: Mic levels anim, better permissions warnings, clearer UX
Screenshare & Webcams
- WEB User can now screen-share and have their webcam enabled
- WEB Flipped local webcam feed
- WEB Improved FPS of webcam feeds in the 3D scene
- WEB Screenshare modal is now bigger
- WEB Fixed: issues when reconnecting to RTC
- HMD MOBILE Improved connection reliability
Content Support
- Fixed: Some 3D Model textures use point filtering, resulting in low texture quality
- Fixed: Support for KTX/Basisu texture compression
- WEB Improved lighting on 3D models; Switch to linear color space
Environments
- Gallery: Improved teleport hotspot positions on benches
- Gallery: Fixed colliders on some walls being misaligned
- WEB Fixed: Model’s lighting is dark when being set as custom env
- MOBILE Fixed: Error when switching to AR-mode
Avatars
- Improved avatar load times
- Improved look of generic avatars when user hasn’t generated one
- Runtime performance optimizations
- Fixed: Avatar load progress errors that will result in avatar fail to load
- Fixed: Avatar load progress indicator did not function as expected
- Fixed: Memory leak with participants list avatar textures
- WEB Avatar emote Thumbs-up, Thumbs-down animation keys changed to ‘Y’ and ‘N’
- HMD Fixed: Avatar heads rendering in front of dialog
Input & Interaction
- WEB Improved camera zoom sensitivity
- WEB Smooth camera rotation with Q and E keys
- WEB User can now move up and down steeper slopes
- WEB Fixed: Unable to move or teleport with mouse or WASD keys
- WEB Fixed: User teleports when pressing next/prev buttons on search results
- HMD Adds ability to press A/X on Oculus controllers in the Dock to open Content Browser
- HMD Adds ability to press B/Y on Oculus controllers to cancel
- HMD Adds thumbstick scrolling to Speech Caption Settings Menu
Portals
- Portals to rooms that don’t exist anymore show that unavailable state
- Skip join-confirmation dialog when jumping through a portal
- HMD Don’t move user to space portal when triggering via teleportation
UI
- Consistent naming for “Spaces” across the apps
- Main wall dots no longer render from the back so they don’t get in the way
- Toast Messages
& Fixes
- Fixed: Prevent too many toast messages from appearing during room join
- Fixed: Some toast messages disappear too fast, making it hard to read
- Fixed: The “Joining ...” toast messages sometimes doesn’t disappear
- Video Player
- Fixed: Videos can be played/paused even when content is locked by host
- WEB Fixed: Video audio is too loud on web
- HMD The video player UI can now be near-interacted with
- HMD WEB Added volume slider to Videos
- Join Confirmation Dialog
- WEB Fixed: The back arrow in the join confirmation dialog overlaps the room name
- WEB Fixed: Don’t allow unauthenticated user to join without a name set
- Spaces Menu
- Improved thumbnail capture for spaces
- WEB Share any room directly from the Spaces Menu “...” button
- MOBILE Added ability to Share/Rename/Delete rooms from the rooms menu
- Share Menu
- Default share setting now set to “Anyone with a link”
- WEB Only show “Team” sharing option when you are part of an org
- WEB Misc layout improvements
- WEB All modals have open & close animations
- WEB Fixed: “No spaces yet” text in empty results state is tiny
- WEB Fixed: If user has an active subscription, redirect to billing instead of showing the upgrade page
- WEB Fixed: The user name input field for an unauthenticated user in room is misaligned
- WEB Fixed: Improved error message when inviting a user to an organization that they are already part of
- WEB Fixed: Controls Cheat Sheets can be clicked and dragged which brought up Drop Content UI
- MOBILE Change environment UI modal improvement to prevent overlap with other UI
- MOBILE Fixed: Style of “+” button is incorrect when disabled
- HMD Fixed: Info, Pedestal, and Animation button visible even when object is locked
- HMD Fixed: Custom skybox doesn't render correctly in the selfie camera
- HMD Fixed: Login screen account display name renders behind avatar
- HMD Fixed: User is able to perform search with a gesture even if content add is disabled by host
- HMD Fixed: Host tools toggle style looks “on” for both on and off states
- HMD Fixed: Z-Fighting effect on participant avatars in the subdock
- Misc
- Fixed: Only the room administrator or hosts should be able to change the spatial audio setting
- Fixed: Rare issue when two users spawn a template at the same time
- Fixed: Error spam caused by modifications to an object that was already destroyed
- WEB Fixed: Some objects are able to be scaled through the transform panel, when they shouldn’t be able to
- WEB Fixed: Tutorial shouldn’t show up for an existing user in a new browser
- MOBILE No longer requesting push-notification permission on startup
- ANDROID MOBILE Fixed: Back button on Android quits app when in room
- STEAMVR Fixed: Dictation is not working