Release Notes

New

• A new immersive environment. With this release, we say farewell to our original dark background and welcome a simpler, brighter environment that feels more like the real world
• Meeting Admin menu is now accessible on iOS.
• FBX and OBJ files are now converted to GLB before upload in the editor, giving faster loading and much more reliable material reproduction on FBX files.
• Undo and Redo buttons and menu items.
• Scrolling now increases movement speed in FreeLook/WASD mode.
• New editor shortcut: Home resets the camera view to the origin.
• CAD Optimiser Experimental Section:
  • Remove small objects
  • Smart Collapse Lead Nodes
  • Orient faces
• Download recordings as MP4

Improvements

• Improved performance when entering part editing.
• The stats window now matches the colours and recommended values used in CAD Optimiser.
• Optional updates now prompt you when a new version is available for better visibility
• Skinned meshes now use a static mesh collider instead of having no collision at all.
• Added a Microsoft Store download link to the downloads page.
• Updated the pairing instructions in onboarding to show iPad instead of Magic Leap 2.
• Duplicating a slide now keeps the original name and appends “Copy”.
• CAD Optimiser
  • JXR is now listed first among output formats, with descriptive text on when to use each option.
  • Statistics bars now use solid colours instead of gradients, for improved clarity.
  • VRay material support for FBX files
  • Switching to an alternative importer in CAD Optimiser no longer requires re-uploading your file.
  • Alternative importer options in CAD Optimiser are now only shown when supported by the file format, and the list has been streamlined.
  • Improved retry logic

Fixes

• Fixed hierarchical hiding and unhiding of model parts, restoring part isolation.
• Fixed small animation movements being lost when the parent was scaled to zero.
• Fixed the text cursor not always being visible in input fields.
• Fixed recording playback breaking intermittently.
• Fixed the Change Password page.
• Fixed FBX files with certain cyclic node hierarchies (for example those created by VRay) failing to import.
• Fixed model pivots being reset during CAD Optimiser conversion.

Security

• Various security hardening improvements across the web platform.

Known issues

• Very large JXR models (over roughly 8.3 million vertices) may not register collisions, which can prevent grabbing or interacting with them directly. We’re continuing to work on a fix.

New

• Kiosk Mode now supports iPad and Windows. iPad and Windows devices can be added to a kiosk group alongside headsets. These devices receive audio from everyone in the session, so mute the microphone and speakers, or use headphones.

Improvements

• A warning now appears during base placement if your floor height looks incorrect.
• In Kiosk Mode you are now told when you appear to be joining from a different location, rather than the app searching for the anchor indefinitely.
• Pico headsets can now join meetings with every other platform. Previously, Pico devices could only meet other Pico devices.
• CAD Optimiser conversions that fail because of capacity are now automatically retried.

Fixes

• No Clip now works if you turn it on before enabling the clipping plane.
• Clipped JXR models no longer show stray geometry between slides.
• The clipping plane now behaves correctly when moved with the centre gizmo.
• 2 fixes for Pascal based GPUs

Security

• Continued security hardening across the web platform.

New

• CAD Optimiser has a redesigned interface, with a clearer layout, better polygon and draw-call feedback bars, and guidance when a model is over the recommended limits.
• Snap to floor. Objects now snap to the nearest horizontal surface when you drag them within 25cm of it — turn it on in Preferences on device. The desktop editor gains a matching Place on floor button in the inspector.

Improvements

• Improved texture compression quality, and normal maps are now compressed.
• Models are no longer rotated 180° when imported, so they arrive facing the right way.
• The hierarchy now expands automatically when you enter part edit mode.
• Middle-click panning in the desktop editor is smoother and more predictable.
• New editor shortcuts: Ctrl+S to save and H to hide a part.
• Adding content in the desktop editor no longer auto-fits the view.
• New editor icons and assorted interface tidy-ups.

Fixes

• The installer no longer launches two copies of the app.
• Duplicating a slide during a multi-user session no longer resets part transforms.
• Scrolling over the slide contents panel no longer scrolls the scene view behind it.
• Fixed a visible lag between opaque and transparent JXR geometry when moving a model.
• Fixed the spatial anchor staying active in VR mode, which prevented teleporting.
• Fixed renaming devices from the My Organisation page.
• Fixed model orientation handling when adding GLB models through the Desktop App.

New

• Part manipulation. Individual parts of both JXR and standard models can now be moved on their own, with a new interface for setting the render state of each part.
• iPad support. JoinXR now runs on iPad.
• Sharper textures. GLB models uploaded through the Desktop App now use KTX compression, raising the effective maximum texture size to 16k.
• The device name is now shown on the user and More menus.
• CAD Optimiser adds a Z-up option, applied automatically for the file formats that need it, along with a reworked conversion settings screen 

• Added Pico support

Fixes

• .jpeg files can now be selected in the editor.
• The Uncompressed setting is now respected when loading models.
• Fixed objects not being grabbable when your hand was inside them.

Fixes

• Fixed large documents failing to open or synchronise between participants.
• Kiosk Mode: if saving a kiosk group fails you now see an explanation of what went wrong, instead of the group silently reverting.
• Kiosk Mode: you can no longer select a device and user combination that cannot be saved.

New

• Kiosk Mode (Beta). Set up shared devices that automatically join a meeting in a fixed physical location. Kiosk Mode is enabled per organisation; owners and managers create kiosk groups and can then share them with any member of the organisation.
• CAD Optimiser leaves Beta. Model Conversion has been renamed to CAD Optimiser, and now accepts zip files for multi-file assemblies.

Improvements

• The Windows Desktop App now supports Intel GPUs.
• A profile badge in the top right links straight to your account page.
• Clearer layout and labelling on the organisation devices page.
• Magic Leap has been removed from the downloads page.

Security and reliability

• Document access errors caused by a brief loss of connection are now far less frequent.
• Various security hardening improvements based on a recent independent security review.

Fixes

• JXR models are no longer left stranded in the meeting if you close a document while they are still loading.
• Greatly reduced the chance of a session becoming unresponsive when a headset joins while the host headset is asleep.
• Worked around content appearing tilted on an individual device.
• Fixed an edge case in viewer licence allocation.

New

• JXR V3. A substantial rendering upgrade: continuous level of detail rather than a single fallback level, faster and more accurate rendering of clipped geometry, double-sided rendering while clipping, and roughly half the wait before hidden geometry appears.
• New GLB and GLTF loader. All .glb and .gltf files now load through a new loader, giving faster load times, lighter runtime meshes, better compatibility with the GLTF specification, and improved image quality.

Improvements

• Edit mode now opens in the advanced layout for new users.
• Removed the blue clipping border from models.
• Images now show their filename alongside their button target.
• Slide numbers now appear in the slides list and in the target slide dropdown for buttons.

Fixes

• Notes and labels now appear in the correct place on environment slides.
• The hierarchy window now closes with the document, and shows clearer file names.
• Fixed the scene view becoming unresponsive after switching to another window.
• The delete button in the hand menu now shows its confirmation prompt.

New

• Organisation device management. A new Devices view under My Organisation, available to owners and managers, lists every device paired by anyone in your organisation and shows who each one is paired with.
• Device status at a glance. For each device you can now see whether the app is running, who is signed in, whether they are in a meeting, the status of their anchor, and which app version they are on.
• Device naming. Devices can be renamed from any view, and a newly paired device now has to be given a name rather than defaulting to something like “Quest 3”.

Improvements

• Upgraded core platform libraries for improved stability and performance.
• The environment mode placement widget keeps its OK and Cancel buttons reachable, even when the widget is above head height.
• Larger, more consistent scroll bars across the app.
• Fixed the layout breaking when the desktop window is resized.
• Device and organisation tables now cope with very long device names and email addresses.
• A new sound when joining a meeting.

Fixes

• Anchor uploads now retry after an intermittent failure.

Changes and fixes

• Remote rendering data and views have been retired from the web platform.
• Fixed JXR models failing to load when the same model was duplicated on a slide and the document was cached.
• Added support for the KHR_materials_emissive_strength GLTF material extension.

Security

• Fixed a security vulnerability in the underlying game engine runtime.

Changes

• Remote rendering retirement begins. Remote rendering controls are now hidden, and edit mode shows an unsupported content warning for remote rendered objects.

Improvements and fixes

• Updated the measure tool gizmos.
• Hierarchy states on local models are now applied as soon as a model loads.
• Added support for networks with restrictive proxy configurations.
• Fixed slide navigation showing “0/9” instead of the current slide after two people had both navigated in the same meeting.
• Fixed the teleport pointer not registering against GLB and FBX models.
• Fixed slide contents disappearing when using Replace to swap a model’s source file with the hierarchy window open.
• Files with an ampersand in the name now upload correctly.
• You can no longer start a second upload while a conversion is still running.
• Fixed the tutorial video on the home page failing to play.
• New video, layout and copy on the landing page.