Hello VRChatters!
First off we had some big news last week as we announced a key partnership with HTC who led our Series A investment round of $4,000,000. You can read more about it here on HTC Vive's Blog.
Our most recent patch comes with a ton of optimizations. Our Video Sync has also been updated, adding support for a huge number of video sites including Dailymotion and Vimeo. We are continuing to improve upon our video player in future updates. Ethan, the standard avatar in our SDK, has left us and been replaced with a new very special custom avatar!
Features
Note: For a full technical breakdown see the VRChat 0.12.0p1 Release Notes
- VRC_SyncVideoPlayer works with lists of YouTube urls (SDK change)
- Optimized some avatar animation components
- Optimized performance for dynamic bone on avatars
- Added VRC_CustomRendererLogic in SDK (adds RealtimeGIUpdated) (SDK change)
- Video sync supports Vimeo and Dailymotion links in addition to YouTube
Halloween Builders Contest "Scared to Reality"
There's still time to win some great prizes, including a HTC Vive and more, with our Halloween Contest "Scared to Reality". The deadline for submissions on worlds and avatars is October 21st.
Click here for official details on the contest.
Going Forward...
Stay tuned as we are inching closer and closer to the release of our new Hub. We are excited to share it with you soon.
Thanks and Enjoy!
The VRChat team