Release Notes.

.holo Rendering and Properties Updates

Upgrades to materials, shaders, animations, sounds, particles and properties system combine to deliver incredible looking and true-to-life experiences! Enjoy the freedom to design completely custom experiences that look, feel and interact the way you want with ease!

The rollout of our new roles and policies system provides the power virtual world builders and their audiences need to create and experience new spatial realities! Cavrnus 2023.2.0 introduces default organization roles, default space roles and default guest roles.

With ease, any administrator can invite a space member to their space with a specific setting for what functionality you want them to have. Now, in a spatial internet context, you hold all of the keys to your virtual world or digital content. Apply parameters to users, spaces and objects to regulate how all three interact with each other.

For White Labeling brands, you can now create your very own roles and policies outside of our Cavrnus Default roles and policies! This means more even opportunity for how you envision gamification, community social experiences, virtual production teams, creative agencies and more.

New Gizmo Scalar in Move Mode

Instantly visualize the scale you were envisioning! Now, Creators have more freedom to choose how they want to scale objects or digital assets in their 3D environments. With the special new Gizmo Scalar, anyone can scale in real-time right in front of your view without having to type or access the properties panel. Get ready to supercharge content population for your spaces!

Updated Content Journey

Included in the new Content Journey is the ability to see File Details with the addition of the new Information icon. Now, you can toggle between the Details View and your List View or Icon View when you need to reference the details or size of your content. Importing content into your scene just got a lot easier and seamless with the new Insert File ability to drop the content directly to a space.

White Label customers can take it up a notch and set up custom logic plus roles and policies to determine how the content library operate across teams or community groups.

Updated Global Navigation

New Global Navigation includes a more intuitive treatment of the top level information as well as the dropdown content. This new categorization, organization and flow allows for an even easier experience to create and share.

Updated Native App Lobby and Web App View All Spaces Page

There are new filters and ways to navigate your spaces with the utmost ease and elegance.

Updated Users Panel UI

Get the best view of everyone with the beautiful new Users Panel UI. Updated for a more streamlined and dynamic experience to connect in the best way possible.

Bug fixes

In the span of this major production release, the Cavrnus team fixed countless amounts of bugs making this the strongest Cavrnus yet.

New intuitive XR UI.

An all-new, user-friendly XR UI makes it easy to connect and create in the metaverse. Access the complete voice, video and screenshare experience. Easily find your content and quickly add it to a space. Create and share in spatial 3D in real-time.

Authenticate your way and easily integrate your preferred Single Sign-on (SSO) solution with OpenID Connect (OIDC) support. OIDC joins Cavrnus support for Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and Active Directory (AD) to empower enterprise-grade authentication, user and group access management and security.

Drag and drop file import for Windows and macOS.

Drag and drop 3D, image, movie and .pdf files from your desktop directly into a space. Intuitive, fast and easy for the 3D novice and the immersive expert, creating personalized metaverse experiences in Cavrnus is for everyone.

Improved UX/UI for materials library.

Easily add and modify materials to parts with the new material library user interface. Modify a material directly on a part. Grab a material from one part, duplicate it, modify it, and apply it to another part. Build an asset library of your favorite materials. Pick a material and quickly add it to multiple parts with updated link selector converted for material-fill mode. Achieve the exact look for your vision.

Property update for world pause.

Bug fixes.

• Fix for OKTA login.
• Fix for material library link selector.
• Fix for directional light shadows in VR in performance mode.
• Fix for thumbnails post-processing.
• Fix for library file promote/unpromote to shared sources.
• Fix for white label assets properly showing in the native apps.
• Fix for white label assets properly showing in the web apps.
• Improvements to the lobby lighting.
• 100s more fixes.

White label support.

The whole of the customer and end-user platform features can be custom branded with a logo and brand colors in the native apps, in the web portals, even in the system emails. The white label solution works cross-platform on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Meta Quest, HTC VIVE Focus, Pico Neo, Magic Leap and more to come. A simple online manifest enables a customer to add their branded elements and publish their custom build to their Cavrnus domain.

For more information on how to customize Cavrnus for your brand, contact sales@cavrn.us.

See a new Cavrnus with an updated user interface making it the easiest and most intuitive metaverse builder.
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Updates | login menu, lobby menu, user panel, consolidation for UX, navigation bar, light dark mode, quick settings, easy access to profile settings, new material fill, new tool bar with floating new look and feel.

New Material Properties.

Cavrnus 2023.1.0 now integrates materials into the properties system via the Cavrnus Creation Toolkit, enabling animated textures, streaming to textures and post-processing effects to materials. For creators, this means more ways to connect and convey meaning in every interaction.

New scripting functionality.

2023.1.0 includes new interactive scripts and script examples. As always, Cavrnus allows developers to write one script to work across a single metaverse experience on the desktop or laptop, and in VR, MR and AR.
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‍Examples | Materials configurator that allows someone to change the materials in the scene in real-time, planetary orbit simulator showing the shadows of the sun and orbit travel, set any 3D object to open a web browser page from any hyperlink you input.

Complete overhaul and upgrade of Cavrnus Unity Package.

At the press of a button export any 3D content as a .holo file for seamless imports into Cavrnus. Take existing content, open in Unity and use the Cavrnus Unity Package to export .holo files.

The Cavrnus Creation Toolkit is comprised of the fundamental features that power creators and developers to easily build interactive experiences within the Cavrnus Platform.

‍Scripting | Holoscripting is even more developer-friendly than before. Built using Typescript, holoscripting now makes it easy to build life-like interactions with well-defined types.

‍Properties | Dynamically access and modify standard properties such as position, rotation, scale, behaviors and animations. Even define your own! Properties can be adjusted on a room, object or part level.

‍Particles | Easily import any of the Cavrnus default particles including: ground fog, snowflakes, rainbow rain, fire and more! Alternatively, export particles from Unity with the Cavrnus Unity Package.

‍Journal | The Cavrnus Journal is updated to support the Cavrnus Creation Toolkit. This allows creators to easily add and define their own properties. Additionally, this update optimized the speed of journal reading, making spaces load even faster!

All-new avatar system.

The all-new Cavrnus avatar system supports rigged and animated avatars!Import a custom avatar using the Cavrnus Unity Package. This release also lays the groundwork for full Ready Player Me support coming soon!

All-new camera system.

Feel like you are living in the scene with the new camera and controls system.Cameras now support the ability to take selfies, interact in third person and be visible in Holocams! Thoughtful takes on standard controls makes for easier and more intuitive navigation as you move around to gain different perspectives.

Experience optimizations.

Interface and feature optimizations throughout Cavrnus deliver a more seamless and effective experience.

‍Chat | Copy, paste and delete! Click a hyperlink in chat to open your web browser.

‍Video | Now videos can be configured with the option loop and play.

‍Guest Links | Guest invite code snippet copy now includes the link expiration date for the space.

Co-presence system upgrade.

Improvements to the co-presence system mean the system now utilizes 50% less data to still deliver smooth, low-latency human-to-human interaction.

SDK Update.

The Cavrnus SDK has been updated to support all of the new system features. The Cavrnus Unity Package is updated to support particles, avatar creation and easy .holo exports.

Bring your metaverse to life faster than ever. The new Content Library system places all of your digital assets into one place, accessible by context, and on every device!  With the new Content Library you can customize avatars from your .holo objects, add image notes to any object, set new skyboxes, and manage content.

Avatar Scaling and Customization.

Make more room for personality in the metaverse. Cavrnus 2022.1.1 enables custom scaling for avatar bodies and hands directly in the avatar profile editor.

Updates to SDK, Unity Plug-in and UE Plug-in.

New improvements and bug fixes deliver a faster and more intuitive development experience. Metaverse builders can now integrate the Cavrnus SDK, Unity Plug-in and Unreal Engine Plug-in with ease into any 3D workflow while bringing components of the multi-person platform functionality into existing templates.

Fixes to HDR Lighting.

Lighting is now more realistic in spaces with the latest enhancements to HDRs. Set the tone for meeting inspiration, interactive virtual experiences, and online NFT collector hubs. While Cavrnus comes with 7 preset for skyboxes, the joy is uploading your own HDR images, or any .jpg, .png and .gif, to be the light. The skybox is the limit!

Additions to UX/UI.

Subscriber members and guests now have a new curated welcome email and link journey providing more clarity and intuitive navigation to join Cavrnus in the 3D experience for the first time. The new customer journey makes it easier than ever to jump into the extended reality with the utmost ease.

Upgrade from Unity built-in render pipeline to Universal Render Pipeline (URP) and new materials deliver highest image fidelity with life-like light and shadows, improved resolution and better performance across devices.

The new materials include more intuitive standard parameters along with advanced options such as emissive intensity, fresnel strength, normal map, smoothness map, and ambient occlusion map to customize each object’s appearance in the metaverse.

Unity Plug-in and Unreal Engine Plug-in Releases.

Build your metaverse with more ease than ever while maximizing your existing 3D data workflows with our most robust SDK yet. The SDK now includes plug-ins for content setup with Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a cross-platform WebRTC voice and streaming video plug-in.

Holoscripting adds Power and Finesse.

Working directly with customers, we improved holoscripting to make it even easier to create the most immersive, multi-person extended reality experiences in the metaverse. Write one script that delivers the contextually correct experience for a microverse across desktop, tablet, VR and AR. Fixed bugs to now deliver stable multi-person experiences.

Key UX/UI Improvements.

Avatar selector has been integrated into the library and now allows a user to choose any .holo as a custom avatar. Bugs associated with the avatar selector have been fixed.

Inserting and using an AR Tracker is more intuitive. Tracker accuracy and precision are more consistent.

VR menus have been simplified creating a more comfortable experience for users.

Device Improvements.

Oculus Quest 2 .apk supports Vulkan and now runs at 60 fps.

Upgraded to Unity 2020.2.7 and OpenXR for unparalleled XR functionality.

Introduced Cavrnus UI builder 3.0 leveraging Unity Input Manager for faster iteration and product development.

Improved device performance, especially for mobile devices.

Added ability to switch XR device providers in the Windows application.

Performance and Improvements.

New image and .pdf thumbnails make it even easier to insert 2D and 3D data.

Data ingestion pipelines improvements for faster space and object load times.

New spatial loading progress indicators create a welcoming entry into a space.

AR Mode now has the rear clipping plane set to 2 km for industrial scale mixed reality.

AR Mode multi-tracker system now switches between trackers at different angles and different heights to help place objects spatially in the metaverse.

New .holo scripting features and functions are included with examples in the SDK.

XR Device Support.

Now supporting the following devices for immersive XR experiences:
- HP Reverb G2
- HTC VIVE Cosmos
- Tilt Five (beta)

Security.

Enterprise-grade user authentication in the Cloud and On-premises installations.
- Active Directory (AD)/LDAP Single Sign-on
- Okta/SAML Single Sign-on
- Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

Uploaded content can be permanently deleted from the server, both in the Cloud and On-premises.

Cavrnus™ RT (beta).

Now available in beta with ray-tracing and browser-streaming capabilities. Designed for high-end rendering built on top of Unreal Engine.