Spatial 2.0 Changes: Host Abilities, LiDAR Scanning, Spatial Audio, Selfies & More!

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3 min readFeb 24, 2021

🔐New Pro Features: upgrade here

Spatial will be adding special new features that will require upgrading to Pro

🎤🖖 HOST TOOLS: Room creators will now have greater control over the room and its participants with the abilities to mute users, remove participants, enable feature specific permissions, & revert the room to its last save.

🙌 New Free Features:

📱LiDAR Scanning: With Spatial’s mobile app on an iPhone 12 or iPad Pro use your LiDAR and TrueDepth cameras to create point clouds & meshes you can add directly into Spatial.

👂Spatial Audio: Turn on Spatial Audio & the farther you are from someone the harder it becomes to hear them. Cocktail parties & breakout sessions here you come! 💃

🎥 Moveable Spectator Camera: Control the view of those watching from the web app. Show them what you’re talking about, give them a tour, & look right at them.

🤳🏾 Selfie Stick: Take pictures in Spatial, of yourself, of a friend, of your co-workers, or any of the content in the room!

Duplicate Content: Easily create a copy of any piece of content in the room.

📚Content menu: Curate your content from the web app, click the x to hide any content you don’t want to appear in headset. From the web app you can now also add this recent content to the room.

Additional Features

Scribble color and brush size customization
Change your Team’s name
We added a loop button to videos
Bulk invite emails to rooms from the web app
PointCloud .PCD File Support
upload GLTF models from Mobile
Webcams & Screenshares can be duplicated

Improvements;

Email/Password Login Flow for Mobile
Improved Mobile AR Mode Calibration UI
Improved CloudSpectator feed quality
Videos play automatically when re-entering the room if saved video was playing previously
Disable hotspot if there’s a person already in the spots
Speakers are visualized with a radial effect in the Participant Bar
When clicking 1:1 button, align object horizontally
Added loading indicator to Mobile Quicklook
Added Haptic feedback to Quest and Mobile interactions
Improved Fist Bump responsiveness
Spawn content from various integrations immediately without delay

& Fixes:

3D Scribble on a downscaled object would result in really thin lines
RTC feeds flicker back and forth between each other
Camera on Mobile can end up below the floor in the Auditorium environment
Some elements on the main wall overlap
When a reconnect is triggered, the highlight and menu colors aren’t updated to the new user color
Crash caused by GLTF Load error
Exception in ContentBrowser.ContentBrowserMediator.HandleDockModeChanged
Exception in UserIntegrationsService.UpdateIntegrationsPeriodically
Exception when Slack user doesn’t exist in message/thread
Exception caused when destroying an object that had a scribble attached