Explore your new “home space” in Sansar.

As always, we are bringing you another one of our monthly updates. Each month we do our best to deliver one major, and one minor update — and this one is pretty major!

Not only are we adding a much better tutorial for Sansar controls, as well as streamlining a number of other features across the board, but we are also bringing emotes (custom or default) to VR and releasing “Project PewPew”.

What’s Being Added

Project PewPew

This is a whole suite of APIs and features that will allow for creators to explore gun-play in Sansar!

Scripts can now detect VR inputs, mouse clicks and what the player is targeting when any input is hit.

Even more script APIs for Ray/shape casting have been added.

Grab Points can be toggled to stay held when picked up (so you don’t have to hold your pewpewer the whole time)

Check out the new Game.Gun, Game.Target and Selector simple scripts to add these features to your scene!

Mouselook mode: allows desktop users to switch to a mode where you do not need to click and hold right-mouse to look around. You can instead hit the ESC key and just move your mouse round.

Avatar Emote Menu

New emote menu which is accessible in Desktop mode AND IN VR!

Full support for emotes in VR !

! Moving your arms or head will no longer cancel an emote. To cancel an emote in VR, walk in any direction.

Desktop mode: keyboard shortcut CTRL+E to open the emote menu

Friendly reminder that CTRL+T opens and closes chat.

Better sitting camera support for “/sit” and “/sit2”

The /commands in Chat are still supported e.g. “/dance”

Sit Points

Much like “Grab Points” creators can now designate “Sit Points” on object, while in Edit Mode.

This works with Static objects only.

Clicking on a sit point will teleport your avatar to the location of the sit point, and the orientation that has been set.

Scene level settings

Free-Cam for Desktop users can be turned off in an experience in Edit Mode

Teleportation (VR & Desktop) distance can be limited or turned off in an experience in Edit Mode.

Both are available in Scene Settings in Edit Mode

What’s Being Fixed

Teleport to Friend

Teleport to a Friend will not be available if your friend is in an “unpublished” experience.

If a user is in an unpublished experience, or is in an experience where they have limited user access to the experience (Ban list / Allow list), then the experience name will not appear in your profile.

Experience names are now correctly formatted.

Chat improvements

You can now start a new conversation with a Friend directly from the Chat app

The Chat app now displays the name of experience you are in, as well as the name of the Friend you are chatting with

Timestamps have been added to Chat

The Chat app now supports 72 more languages. You can now freely type in Japanese, Korean, Greek and even Klingon. Qa’pla!

Tutorialization and Onboarding

All users now land in a home space when logging in.

Controls and UI have a new tutorial that will start in the home space when first logging in, you will also receive one-time prompts as you visit experiences.

This will impact both new and existing users.

Passing objects between VR users

Re-enabling the old behavior where people could grab things out of the hands of another VR user.

Cancel loading

Users can now cancel loading into an experience by clicking the “X” near the loading bar.

What’s Being Added to Scripting

There is a lot, so for notes our scripts please visit our webpage.

Highlights include: