Version 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0

New Features

• User Heads Up Display (HUD) doubling as a quick menu
  • Size and position configurable
• Emojis pane - sixteen emojis to display for you
• Passwordless authentication
  • Secret key in a file in your device
  • No password eavesdropping!
  • Public key to identify your friends across the servers
• Text messages button in the 'People' panel (if the receiver wants it to)
• Flying!
• Privacy panel: Hiding the user ID, or blocking text messages for strangers, and more
• Camera drone. Place it, or toss it high up, and snap a photo.
• Microserver for providing web links. Place a link in Discord to invite user into your server
• Kicking and banning users (if the user has sufficient privileges)
• Controller configuration
  • Disabling controllers let your avatar's hand be at rest - not in your face!

Fixes and improvements

• Merging the voice and the world server -- one less port to be opened.
• User privileges and capabilities
• Massive improvements to authentication
• Nameplate improvements
• Virtual keyboard improvements
• VR look & feel improvements
• Various stability and bug fixes

Version 0.5.5

Interim release

Version 0.5.0

Version 0.5.0

New Features

• Offline scene - dedicated scene to stretch your (metaphorical) legs and to make yourself comfortable.
  • You can switch to the host mode for a quick meeting, though. :)
• Additional virtual keyboard layout: en_US (full)
• New teleport mode: Blink - Fade out, move, Fade in.

Fixes

• Fixes a bug where the avatar occasionally has misplaced to (0,0,0), not the designated spawn point(s).

Version 0.4.0

Version 0.4.0

Breaking change - not backwards compatible prior to this version

New features

• People Panel: Incoming and outgoing friend requests - keep track of your outstanding friend requests
• Text messaging - send messages to online users.
  • Full end-to-end encryption, no snooping!
  • Online status setting - if you don't like to be disturbed, the messages will put on hold when you change your mind.
• Virtual Keyboard support
  • Always, VR only, never (if you can blind type with wearing a VR headset...)
  • Additional keyboard layouts? More to be added soon
• Control configuration
  • Separately left/right (in VR) configuration
  • Completely switching off the individual controller
  • Ray type: Straight line, Arc
  • Ray visibility: Always (red/white), only valid (white)
• Movement configuration
  • Snap turn / Smooth turn (slow, fast, as you like)
  • Instant teleport / Sliding "Zipline" teleport (the same...)

Finally, the system menu panels are filled, no more "Reserved for future use" placeholders!

Fixes

• People Panel: Hide buttons, not just disable them.

Version 0.3.0

Version 0.3.0

Breaking change - not backwards compatible prior to this version

New features

• Embedded avatar creation
• Avatar gallery to store and retrieve your avatars
• Nameplates
  • Button for muting/unmuting
  • Button for blocking
  • Offering and accepting friendships
• User lists
  • Online in the current server
  • Friends
  • Blocked users
• Privacy bubble, with adjustable size
  • For friends
  • For strangers

Fixes

• Added Network Authenticator for access control and version check

v0.2.0

Version 0.2.0

New features

• Browser integration
  • Starting Arteranos just by clicking a link in web page
  • Link provides the server address and/or the targeted world.
    • Good for publishing, like for an event's contact details
• Setup wizard
• Audio system menu pane functional
  • Master/Voice/Environment volume sliders
  • Microphone device selection
  • Microphone gain slider
  • AGC (Automatic Gain Control) to adaptively adjust the microphone gain

Fixes

• Major code cleanup
• Addad a notification for failed server connection
• UPnP NAT traversal now on-demand
  • Now you can use the dedicated server and the desktop client at the same time.
• New server entry improved - a simple server like 'localhost' should suffice in the default cases

v0.1.0

First public release