1.4.1
First minor release of the 1.4.x series. Includes several important fixes and improvements specially in the media playback of different streaming services. We keep shipping hand tracking improvements (and some more about to come soon). Last but not least there are several changes on the UI side of things and also important stability fixes.
BTW, the app will no longer be called "Wolvic VR Browser" as it was unnecessary long, from now on it's just "Wolvic" as everybody call it.
Highlights
- Fixes and improvements for many popular streaming services: Youtube, Apple TV, HBO Max, Paramount+, AirPano, etc.
- Drastically improved the precision of hand tracking.
- Introduced a new gesture to exit the application when using hand tracking.
- Improved Wolvic's Android app lifecycle, specially on application finalization.
Streaming media
- Fix media events in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/
- Fix playback of DRM protected content on Apple TV+ https://tv.apple.com/
- Fix video playback on AirPano https://airpano.com/
- Added support for video playback on Max https://www.max.com/
- Added support for video playback on Paramount+ https://www.paramountplus.com/
Hand tracking
- New gesture to exit Wolvic when using hand tracking: simply look at your right hand palm, then pinch your thumb and index finger together and a dialog will come up.
- Compute a better aim ray for hand tracking on systems that don't support the XR_FB_hand_tracking_aim extension.
- Use the "1€ filter" to remove jitter from the hand tracking aim; see https://gery.casiez.net/1euro/ for additional details about this filter.
UI
- Change the application name to "Wolvic", replacing "Wolvic VR Browser".
- Increase the size of tooltips so they are easier to read.
- When the user triggers the Back action but the navigation history is empty, we will show a prompt to exit the app.
- New versions of the app icons with white background and 50% size reduction
- Use localized welcome page
- Updated translations: Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil)
Stability
- Reorganize the code managing the Android lifecycle of the application; among other benefits, this allows us to properly close the OpenXR resources when Wolvic finishes so that other apps in the system are not affected.
- Fix crashes due to an unchecked recursive call.
Expanded availability
Going forward we will use the services of AppInChina to publish Wolvic in mainland China. Among other things, this required us to make small changes to our build system and to include the appropriate user agreement and privacy policy documents.
Build system
Clean up and refactor CMake includes for flavours using OpenXR.
Lynx-R1
Remove some corrections which are now unnecessary with the new way to compute the aim ray.