NEW
School of AI
- Launched the School of AI, where users can talk to AI-powered representations of historical figures in authentic environments. For more information, go to https://engagevr.io/school-of-ai/.
Persistent sessions
- Moved the functionality to create and manage persistent sessions from the web manager into EAP.
Single sign-on (SSO)
- Added Google Workspace as an identity provider for SSO.
Enterprise Admin Portal
- Added a new Account status field to user profiles to indicate whether a user’s account is enabled or disabled.
Host controls
- Added an option to prevent non-hosts from inviting their connections to a session.
Connections
- Added a list of sent but pending connection requests on the Invitations tab of Connections.
- Added the ability to search for users to add as a connection while in a session.
Content Editor
- Added the ability to create experiences for mixed reality.
IMPROVED
Controls
- Remapped some of the shortcut keys on desktop devices. Muting and unmuting microphones are now mapped to the m key instead of F1.
IFX
- Added the ability for Enterprise group owners who have purchased custom branded IFX to be able to manage the graphics that appear on those IFX through the Enterprise Admin Portal.
Enterprise groups
- Changed the user’s profile page in the web manager to display only their default group. A user can go to the Groups page to view a full list of their groups.
- Reordered the list of a user’s groups so that their default group is first, and then all other groups are listed in ascending alphabetical order.
Sessions
- Increased session IDs to six characters and removed characters that could be easily confused. Specifically, O, 0, I, and l. Old session IDs will continue to work.
- Updated the public listing of live sessions so that newly created sessions are listed first.
Connections
- Replaced the red dot that indicated pending connection requests with a numerical indication of how many requests are pending.
- Added the ability for a user to filter their list of connections to show only other users who are online.
- Renamed the “Online” status for a user to a more accurate status of “In the menu”.
Security and performance
- Implemented email notifications that are sent to users when changes are made to their method of authentication. Specifically, the use of 2FA or SSO.
- Applied important updates and improvements that benefit the stability of the platform.
Enterprise Admin Portal
- Added a new column to the invitations page to show who sent each invitation.
- Increased the amount of horizontal space that is used on pages.
UI
- Improved the interface used to select people in the application so that it is easier to use and provides more information. For example, when a user chooses who to record or who to deliver forms to.
- Applied new colors to loading bars in the ENGAGE application so that they are WCAG compliant.
- Added more specific error messages for when invalid information is added to the profile page in the web manager.
Avatars
- Improved the avatar bone system to allow more natural lip movements. This necessitated removal of the lip size adjustment control in the avatar editor.
Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Defaulted the mobile phone country code to a user’s profile region when they set up SMS authentication.
SSO
- Added a confirmation dialog for when a user chooses to delete SSO configuration settings.
FIXED
Recordings
- Fixed an issue that could cause grabbed network objects captured in a recording to be offset when played back.
iOS
- Fixed an issue on iPads that could cause the application to close or fail to load certain locations after a user logged in and out multiple times.
Persistent sessions
- Fixed an issue that could prevent users from joining a session because they were incorrectly determined to be using different versions of the application.
Host controls
- Fixed an issue where a user could avoid being affected by a seat all command by using controller inputs during the countdown.
Cloud file manager
- Readded image previews to the Details panel.
- Fixed an issue that caused dates on the Details panel to show only months instead of full dates.
- Fixed an issue that enabled a user to grant others a higher permission over cloud files in the ENGAGE application than their own permissions should allow.
- Fixed an issue that caused the option to copy a file to cloud files to incorrectly appear for files that were already uploaded to Cloud File Manager.
Sessions
- Fixed an issue that caused the application to timeout when loading a large location.
- Fixed an issue that prevented a LITE user from being able to create a session.
2FA
- Fixed an issue where if a user entered the wrong SMS verification, they could not continue with set up.
- Fixed an issue where if a user set up 2FA with SMS messages as the chosen method to receive passcodes, and were a member of an Enterprise group that subsequently disabled use of SMS, then the user could not log in.
- Fixed an issue that prevented use of the Enter key to submit a 2FA authentication code in the web manager.
Meta Quest Link
- Fixed an issue with Quest 2 Link, where if a user took off their headset, tracking would not resume when the user put their headset back on until they moved their mouse.
Events
- Fixed an issue where a user who did not have a time zone set for their account could not see date selection fields when they created an Event.
- Fixed an issue that caused a blank page to be displayed after a user duplicated an event.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a non-authenticated version of the events page to be displayed to a user who used SSO to log in.
- Fixed an issue that could enable a LITE user to create an event.
- Fixed an issue that could cause events to remain listed as live after their designated end time.
- Fixed an issue when creating a new event that could prevent start and end times from defaulting to the nearest half hour.
- Fixed an issue where non-breaking spaces pasted into an event’s description appeared as HTML code instead of whitespace.
SSO
- Fixed an issue where if a user that failed to log in through SSO because it was not set up correctly in EAP, they did not receive a meaningful error message.
Remember Me
- Fixed an issue where a user that had selected Remember Me, but needed to reauthenticate because of a change to SSO or 2FA settings, didn’t receive an appropriate error message.
Enterprise Admin Portal
- Fixed an issue that could cause the date when a user accepted an invitation to join the group to not be displayed in the application.
- Fixed an issue that enabled owners and admins of a subgroup to modify some settings in the parent group when they should not have had permission.
- Fixed an issue where on rare occasions, a user who created an invitation saw the option to invite someone to a top-level group as an owner.
UI
- Fixed an issue that could cause a page from the web manager to appear briefly in the ENGAGE application.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the cookie settings panel to overlap parts of the website.
- Fixed the tracking mode icon shown in the in-session menu to accurately reflect the current tracking mode.
Network
- Fixed an issue that could cause the application to become unresponsive if the network connection was lost.
Localization
- Fixed an issue where if a user changed their language in the web manager and then went to the 2FA page, their language selection reset.
- Added some translations in areas where they were missing.
- Fixed an issue that could cause country and time zone names to display in a different language.
- Fixed overlapping French text in the Scalable Session Manager.
Cloud connections
- Fixed an issue where a user was presented with a 404 error page after they removed a cloud connection.
Forms
- Fixed an issue that prevented the list of questions from being updated when a user added a new question.
- Fixed an issue that prevented a user from removing a question.
- Fixed an issue that prevented a user from adding more than three options to a question.
Subscriptions
- Fixed an issue that prevented a user from interacting with the page after they cancelled a subscription.
Enterprise groups
- Fixed an issue that could cause a user to be a member of one or more Enterprise groups but have no default group selected.
- Fixed a miscalculation of the maximum membership size when a user created a subgroup.
- Fixed an issue where a user that is prevented from leaving a group because they have an owner role saw an incorrect error message.
Portals
- Fixed an issue that could cause a user to lose access to the in-session menu, as well as the ability to travel through portals, after they cancelled travel through a portal.
- Fixed an issue that caused the destination name to not be displayed when travelling through a portal.
Uploads
- Fixed an issue that caused the menu option to upload IFX to appear to users for whom the permission was not enabled.
PLUS
- Fixed the Try PLUS links in the application to directly open the PLUS account creation page.