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

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

Wow you read all that?!?! Are you impressed? That was a lot!

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