Version 2024.2

New Features

• Additional Languages for AI Dialogue (3D Character and Helper Companion) and Text-To-Speech

  • Choose German, French, Italian or Spanish as language to talk with 3D Characters or the Helper Companion

  • Generate Text-To-Speech assets with voices for German, French, Italian or Spanish spoken text

  • Use the new action Speak, to play generated text-to-speech audio files on 3D Character or Helper Companion with lip-sync animation

• Start a soft skill training with AI dialogues in the web browser

  • Use the computer’s microphone input to talk to 3D Characters or the Helper Companion in the Webapp

  • Lip-sync and talking animations are fully supported in the web browser

• Get AI Dialogue notation to access spoken dialogues within actions

• AI settings with voice and speaking style selection to Helper Companion

• Simplified Control and Support for Learning Records in the Webapp

  • Just click and drag with the mouse to look around and double-click to teleport

  • Press C to switch viewing height

  • Learning records are collected and synced when using the Webapp

  • Launch VR units from an external Learning Management System (LMS) directly in the web browser

• New category Free Library in the sections Courses and Units

  • Find free content and ready-to-use training in the new category Free Library

  • Samples, templates and meeting spaces can now be found in the Free Library

• New trigger Variable Changed

  • Use this trigger to react when variable values are changed

• Beta action Pro Script to create custom actions with scripting language

  • This is a pro feature intended for users with coding experience only

  • Authors can open a console from the menu bar while editing in the app

• Automatic enrollment for courses

  • New option to make a course available to all users automatically or restrict it to enrolled users only

• Courses and units can be opened and started directly with a click on the cover

• Number of enrolled learners is shown on the course tile

• New 3D character animations (Yes, No, Thumbs Up, Wave Hand) added to the Action Play Character Animation

• Open a preview in the Webapp while editing a unit in WMS

• Courses can be duplicated

• Export and import users from the current team to CSV file (team administrators only)

• Number variables support a wider range of values

• Added support for using variables in the base knowledge for the AI component

• When set, system proxies are used for all requests, including web requests

Changes

• The Helper Speak Action is replaced by the Action Speak

• New groups and sorting in the Action Dropdown

• Press C to switch viewing height, instead of ALT

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where videos were not playing correctly in the Webapp

• Fixed an issue where an invalid unit revision file would cause the app panel to not show any units

• Fixed an issue where screen tearing occurred in the desktop application

• Fixed an issue where parsing a unit with an unconfigured compare variable condition caused errors

• Fixed an issue where lip-sync did not work when character was disabled on scene load

• Fixed an issue where the first message in a SnackbarMessages Stack would not be shown

• Fixed an issue where 360 environment videos were not visible when changing scene in edit mode

• Fixed an issue where Snackbar messages did not get deleted when leaving a unit

• Fixed an issue where changing the passthrough mode would cause the app to not display environments correctly on subsequent app-starts

• Fixed an issue where enter/leave triggers were invoked when handing over control to another user

• Fixed text-to-speech failing when containing some special characters

• Fixed Learning Record Export failing because of invalid auth parameter

Coming Soon

• Authoring with Webapp