Improved grabbing system + Gizmo

After several iterations and a relentless collection of all your feedback, we are proud to announce a new and improved grabbing system + Gizmo. We strongly believe this is going to further streamline the creation process while making it more intuitive for all new users. To make this transition less abrupt while we keep collecting feedback, we decided to release this an experimental mode so everybody can just opt-in under the settings menu and experience all the improvements. Try it out because it will soon become the default.

Here is what to expect:

• Grabbing now works with the trigger button instead of the grab button effectively separating object manipulation from user locomotion.
• We have added a pointer selection system (super powerful especially in Mixed Reality) that allows you to point and manipulate assets that are far away from you as well as more accurately select thin objects such as buttons or “stacked images”.

• We redesigned the gizmo and combined the various modes in a more visually appealing and easy-to-use package.

• Multi-selection of separate objects and duplication is now done by using the trigger on your non-dominant hand. Think of it as the alt or ctrl modifier on your keyboard 😉

Check out a quick tutorial we put together to guide you through the main changes.

Try it out and let us know your feedback by joining our Discord.

Shared Team Folders

We are also releasing a very requested feature for all our “Team” and “Enterprise” customers: Shared asset libraries. This allows teams to have common asset folders in your ShapesXR dashboard and streamline collaboration in your team.

Design Blog

We are also very excited to announce the launch of our Design Blog. It is a leaving XR knowledge database that will keep growing over time and that teaches spatial design concepts SPATIALLY helping designers and XR teams ideate and prototype their spatial computing apps and games.

Full release notes:

• 3 Amazing templates to start designing for VisionOS
• Lyp Sync optimization
• Pico SDK Upgrade
• Avatars SDK Upgrade
• Improvements importing resources
• Fixed offset for grabbing objects when returning in 1:1

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