Ver 1.8.0a release

• Overhauled the voice system
  
  • Added 3D audio feature for voice chat (direction and distance decay)
    
  • For details, refer to the "About the voice system" section below.
• Added in-VR Quick Start menu in the title.
  
• Items now glow when you touch them
  
• Emoticons in comments can now be spawned

• You can now change the roughness of the mosaic
  
• You can now straighten the handy camera and guest camera by holding the grip button
  
• You can now paint on a whiteboard with your fingers when your finger is in the "finger gun" pose
  
  • To change the color, grab any pen to have the color of the pen copied to your fingers
• Added black to the chroma key background
  
• Field of view limitation can now be changed in the ring menu
  
• You can now turn on/off the chroma key setting for external input monitor
  
• Volume settings in the ring menu are now categorized
  
• Volume settings in the ring menu had only three steps. Now they can be adjusted gradually (101 steps) using new slider UI
  
• Mic input volume can now be adjusted in the settings screen
  
• Strength of the vibration can now be changed
  
• Instructional illustration for the calibration scene is changed to T-stance when you have trackers.
  
• You can now move the eyes with ViveProEye while using facial expressions. This feature can be turned on in the settings.

• Fixed the issue where the name on Twitter comment board could overflow from the window
  
• Fixed the issue where a guest could destroy the external input monitor item when initialization fails on the guest's side
  
• Fixed the issue where the head of an avatar gets placed on the ground hight when gigantic avatar model is loaded
  
• Fixed the issue where the position of the hip gets weird when you change from a short avatar to a tall avatar
  
• Fixed the issue where comment cards sometimes could not be deleted
  
• Fixed the issue where options for external input monitors are not displayed correctly.

• Camera FOV can now be controlled from VCI scripts
  
• For details, refer to this page.

• Fixed the issue where different versions of a VCI is loaded between the room owner and the guest.
  
• After this fix, the version of VCI at the time of the initial load will continue to be loaded even after updating the VCI file on THE SEED. To load the latest VCI on THE SEED, delete the VCI in the room, and re-enter the room, then reload the VCI. You can also reload the VCI with the Reload feature in the context menu.

About the voice system

A new setting to change the studio audio to 3D is added to "Ring Menu" > [System] > [Studio settings] (Currently, this affects voice only)

• 3D audio
  
  • Add spacial audio effect to the sounds in the studio (Currently, this affects voice only)
• Voice Distance Rolloff
  
  • When 3D audio is enabled, you can specify the distance at which sounds starts to get softer and the longest distance to which sounds can reach
    
    • Min Distance: Sounds start to get softer from the specified distance (in meter)
      
    • Max Distance: Specify the maximum distance that a sound can reach to (in meter)

New voice features are added with the renovation of the voice system

• Audio pre-processor
  
  • Removes environment noise to make the sound cleaner
    
  • By enabling, you can use the following features
    
    • Reverb reducer
      
      • Removes reverberation (Room echo, etc.) from the input
    • Voice detection
      
      • A feature to detect your speech
        
      • It detects your speech and turns on/off the input accordingly
    • Auto gain adjustment
      
      • Automatically adjust the mic input to the appropriate volume
    • When the pre-processor is enabled, stationary noises such as wind blow from an air-conditioner or sound from a light source will be reduced
  • Echo canceller
    
    • Reduces residual echo
      
    • It also has the feature to reduce the volume of output while you are talking