Release Notes v3.9
NEW
- Launched the School of AI - where users can talk with 20 different historical figures whose lives spanned from the ancient world to the US civil rights era. As part of the launch, all ENGAGE users will have access to the School of AI during the month of October. To arrange access after this time, please contact sales.
- Replaced the keyboard that appears for VR users with a version that has an improved layouts for each language, custom layouts for specific input types, easier access to common keys and commands, and can be repositioned in 3D space.
- Set events that are associated with a persistent session to automatically start at the designated time. This removes the need for an event organizer to manually start the event. The event will also automatically be removed from the event list at the designated end time.
- Added an option for hosts to set all users who are in a session, or join later, to appear as basic avatars.
- Updated session creation so that all sessions created by a member of an Enterprise group are owned by an Enterprise group. This enables Enterprise features and services to be available in standard Sessions.
- Added the ability to replace the public list of outfit options with a custom collection for a specific Enterprise group.
IMPROVED
- Increased the maximum resolution for YouTube videos to 1080p in standard locations and 4k in UHD locations.
- Implemented progressive download of outfit thumbnails to reduce the possibility that a slow connection will cause the application to become unresponsive.
- Replaced gender labels with body shape options in the avatar editor.
- Implemented a more efficient process to distribute audio returned by text-to-speech services. For example, when users interact with an AI agent.
- Set persistent sessions to reset their location to the ENGAGE Hub if there is an error loading the current location.
- Updated the location anchor to appear in front of a user when they choose to reset their anchor's placement.
- Standardized the presentation of dates and times shown in the application.
- Improved consistency in the sequence of dialogs that a user may see when they join a plaza from the ENGAGE LINK map.
FIXED
- Fixed the display of 2D 360 YouTube videos.
- Fixed an issue that caused users who joined a session after a YouTube video was muted to still hear the audio.
- Fixed support for YouTube videos loaded through a /live or /short URL.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some users in a session to not hear an AI character's responses.
- Fixed an issue that caused Remember Me settings to be lost when a user lost their network connection during use of the application.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent a user from changing their height when they used imperial units.
- Fixed an issue that could cause an avatar to appear in the wrong pose and position when it first loads in a session.
- Fixed an issue that caused a height entered as 5 ft. to be displayed as 4 ft. 12 in.
- Fixed an issue that caused the attendees and interested counts to show as zero when events were viewed on the Attending or Interested tabs of the Events page.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a user's microphone to cut out if they were recording and had an unstable network connection.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a warning about recording more than five users to appear when less than five users were selected.
- Fixed an issue that could cause host and microphone icons to be incorrectly positioned within a user's nameplate.
- Fixed the button to leave the mixed reality room and set up room space that appears when a user s device isn't fully set up to use mixed reality.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent a user from being able to log in when their device used the Hijri calendar.
- Fixed the tooltip text on the session creation screen.
- Fixed an issue that caused the in-session microphone icon's visibility to be turned off after a change in location.