8.8.8
2023-05-17
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.8:
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that may have had resulted in some users experiencing the Create screen's basic editor menu sometimes not displaying when the menu button is tapped.
8.8.7
2023-05-16
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.7:
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that may have had resulted in some users experiencing slightly incorrect sizing of the camera video feed in the Home screen under certain rare conditions.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that may have resulted in incorrect timing of app update informational alerts to users.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that had resulted in the loading screen not displaying progress percentage in written form as expected.
⍟ Performance Improvements: Optimizations were implemented for the process of handling VR video files.
8.8.6
2023-05-16
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.6:
⍟ Performance Improvement: Implemented additional checks to conserve energy and reduce memory usage in the Home screen.
⍟ UI Optimization: Home Screen automatic flashlight will refrain from turning on if the loading screen is displayed or if the EULA/Privacy-Policy screens are displayed.
⍟ UI Optimization: Create Screen project editor has been improved such that the custom editor tabs are not visible while the loading screen is visible.
⍟ UI Optimization: Create Screen project editor tooltips were improved such that the tooltip associated with saving the project is displayed after the tooltip associated with image rotation is displayed.
⍟ UI Optimization: Create Screen project editor added additional checks to ensure that native toolbar doesn't appear in front of custom toolbar.
⍟ UI Optimization: Create Screen project editor rename button layout was optimized for all models.
⍟ UI Optimization: Home Screen camera output feed frame was optimized for all models.
⍟ UI Optimization: Navigation bar appearance was optimized for all models.
⍟ App Metadata Optimizations: App Store app description and promotional text improvements were implemented.
8.8.5
2023-05-15
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.5:
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for a rare intermittent issue associated with the Back button in the Projects screen.
8.8.4
2023-05-12
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.4:
⍟ New Feature: Free Unlimited - All users can now create for free. Unlimited creation for one business card or other printed item with no subscription necessary. Thank you Lite and Premium subscribers for supporting AR & VR Viewer.
⍟ New Feature: A new feature was implemented for the Home Screen that adds a responsive viewfinder exclusively for the scanning of text from the environment. This ensures the best possible performance for the most scenarios and devices.
⍟ New Feature: New Automatic Responsive Flashlight feature analyzes environmental lighting and detects when conditions may benefit from the built-in flashlight. The light may automatically turn on one time during QR/text scanning if necessary to ensure the best-possible AR experience. It only activates one time.
⍟ New Feature: The Create screen has been re-designed with a stylish animated tab bar featuring unique button icons.
⍟ New Feature: The Create screen button icons now display stylish animated button flags alerting user if they have not completed an essential step of AR card creation.
⍟ New Feature: The Create screen's Projects screen now gives the user three options when the Create New option is tapped. These options are "Reserve QR Code", "Reserve Text" and "Smart QR Code Only"
⍟ New Feature: The Create screen's Modifiers pane now includes an option for video quality. Try seeing if setting a lower quality can drastically reduced file size and drive performance for. your card.
⍟ New Feature: Tap-to-focus in Home screen QR/Text scanner.
⍟ New Feature: Improved auto-focus in Home screen's QR/Text scanner.
⍟ UI Optimization: Optimizations to the Subscription screen are implemented displaying responsive subscription status that displays briefly while the subscription request is processed.
⍟ UI Optimization: An optimization was implemented for the Create screen so that after selecting video it goes directly to EZ-Scan for expedited application.
⍟ UI Improvement: Responsive coaching and viewfinder are now implemented for the EZ Scan screen.
⍟ UI Optimization: Create screen 'Help'/'?' buttons were moved to the main menu.
⍟ UI Optimization: View AR screen's record button responsive coloration feature has been optimized so that the color of the button is now green when not recording and red during recording.
⍟ UI Improvement: Create screen's AR Recognition Image import button now has a pull-down functionality the shows three ways to import when tapped: "Photos", "EZ-Scan", "Still Frame".
⍟ UI Optimization: Create screen's EZ-Scan screen title has been optimized.
⍟ UI Optimization: Loading screen optimizations were implemented related to the Create screen video selection.
⍟ UI Optimizations: Loading Screen optimizations were implemented related to hiding and showing tooltips during loading screen.
⍟ Performance Optimizations: Improved website address text recognition and verification logic.
⍟ UI Optimizations: Menu UI optimizations including removal of the "Reserve QR Code" and "Reserve Card Text" were implemented to prevent redundancy due to new Create New button functionality.
⍟ UI Optimizations: Menu UI optimizations were implemented to prevent user interaction with menu while Loading screen is active.
⍟ Performance Enhancements: Loading performance enhancements were implemented
⍟ App Store Page Optimization: The description was updated to be easier to read.
⍟ UI Otimization: Offline mode optimizations were implemented relating restringing access certain screens while offline.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for a rare intermittent issue relating to the Create screen's Advanced pane associated with the wrong alert description message appearing when tapping an unavailable feature.
8.8.3
2023-04-21
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.3:
⍟ UI Improvement: The Files screen now uses the new stylized loading overlay during VR video downloads.
⍟ Performance Enhancement: Text detection capabilities were improved to process only email, phone number and website URL text on a business card.
8.8.2
2023-04-20
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.2:
⍟ UI Improvement: Loading screens have been made more uniform app-wide.
⍟ UI Improvement: Loading screen text was made easier to read and aesthetic.
⍟ Performance Enhancement: The 'Authenticating' component of project saving has been removed.
⍟ Performance Enhancement: View AR screen optimizations enable better XR performance on older iPhones such as iPhone 6S.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that sometimes resulted in incorrect card edge-roundedness in the 3D Preview screen.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that sometimes resulted in incorrect 3D model rotation.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix was. implemented for an issue that sometimes resulted in VR video buttons not displaying.
8.8.1
2023-04-17
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.1:
⍟ New Feature: QR scanner overlay flashes green when a QR is detected. The overlay flashes for a total of 2 seconds to ensure sufficient time for all visible QR codes to be accounted for.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an uncommon intermittent issue that may have resulted in some users experiencing the autofocus not working correctly in the Home Screen QR code scanner.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an uncommon intermittent issue that may have resulted in some users reserving the same qr multiple times.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an uncommon intermittent issue that may have resulted in the incorrect AR project being displayed when multiple valid QRs were found on the same card.
8.8.0
2023-04-16
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.8.0:
⍟ EPIC NEW FEATURE: Website and email address functionality! Provide a website URL or email address from your business card in the Reserve QR Code screen to make it activate your AR experience instead of a QR code. This makes the app more accessible for people whose business cards do not have a QR code.
8.7.9
2023-04-09
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.9:
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix is now implemented for an intermittent and rare issue that had resulted in newly created projects not showing in the Create screen’s project selection pane.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix is now implemented for an issue that had resulted in the save button not responding to tap gestures under certain uncommon circumstances.
⍟ UI Optimization: The Create screen's project editor now says "Card Image" instead of "Card" for clarity.
⍟ UI Optimization: The Create screen's 3D model selection pane has been enhanced with a tip that tells the user the recommended file type for 3D graphics.
⍟ UI Optimization: The Create screen's 3D model selection pane has been enhanced with a tip that tells the user how to see a 3D preview of the card with the selected model.
⍟ UI Optimization: The Create screen's 3D model selection pane has been enhanced with a tip that tells the user how to expect their 3D graphics to appear with the default scale value of '100%'.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen menu was improved such that it now displays an option to go to the Help Center on the AR & VR Viewer website instead of linking directly to the tutorial videos channel.
⍟ UI Improvement: The loading overlay in the Create screen was improved to have a bit of text telling the user that it may take a minute to authenticate new records through iCloud.
⍟ Performance Enhancements: Various other performance enhancements were implemented.
8.7.8
2023-04-04
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.8:
⍟ UI Improvement: The Reserve QR Code feature now checks the availability of QR codes before leaving the Scan to Reserve screen. This was implemented to prevent situations where users spent valuable time selecting and adjusting image and video assets just to be told that the QR code they scanned is unavailable due to a prior reservation.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Reserve QR Code feature now goes directly to the Scan to Reserve screen and allows users to enter a QR code AIN manually by tapping a keyboard button at the top of the Scan to Reserve screen.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Scan to Reserve screen now displays a viewfinder, coaching image and coaching text to help the user intuitively know what to do on that screen and when to scan.
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: An issue was resolved that had resulted in the Home Screen sometimes double-scanning a QR code resulting in the QR code not working.
⍟ Bug Fix: An issue was resolved that had resulted in error message sometimes displaying incorrect information in certain rare circumstances.
⍟ Bug Fix: An issue was resolved that had resulted in error message alerts sometimes not displaying long enough for users to read the message and tap the OK button.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Home Screen flashlight is now turned off immediately upon successful scanning of a QR code to save energy.
8.7.7
2023-03-31
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.7:
⍟ New Feature: A new and improved update status checker has been implemented. This new feature informs the user if they have opened an outdated version of AR & VR Viewer. A green checkmark button can be tapped that takes users directly to the proper App Store page for updating AR & VR Viewer.
⍟ UI Optimization: The shape of the Create button that is displayed on the Main Screen has been optimized. It is now more of an oval.
⍟ UI Optimization: The icon of the Create button displayed on the Main Screen was changed back to a magic wand.
8.7.6
2023-03-29
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.6:
⍟ CRITICAL BUG FIX: A fix has been implemented for an issue associated with reserving QR codes.
⍟ UI Optimization: The Create button on the Home Screen now says "Create" in order to make it more clear what the button does.
8.7.5
2023-03-27
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.5:
⍟ Important Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in QR codes sometimes scanning two or more times when one scan of the QR code was intended by the user.
⍟ UI Optimization: People occlusion is now disabled by default but can be enabled in the main menu.
⍟ UI Improvement: Coaching image and text in the VR viewing screen is now hidden if the user is only viewing a VR video and is not entering an AR experience.
⍟ UI Optimization: Permission to send push notifications is now requested before moving to the View AR screen in order to avoid the temporary screen freezing that occurs while the alert requesting permission to send push notifications is displayed.
8.7.4
2023-03-25
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.4:
⍟ Bug Fix: An issue was resolved that had resulted in some users sometimes experiencing the video selection pane automatically appearing even after a video was selected for that project.
8.7.3
2023-03-23
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.7.3:
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: An issue has been resolved that had resulted in duplicate projects being spawned when attempting to use the new Reclaim QR Code scan and AIN entry features. Please delete duplicate projects. We apologize for any confusion the software bug may have caused.
8.7.2
2023-03-22
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 87.2:
⍟ New Feature: Now you can choose to display your AR video above the card or to the right of the card. Go to the Modifiers section in the Create screen and adjust the video placement controls to try it out.
⍟ UI Optimization: The UI for the AR button creation section of the Create screen was improved so that the '+' and '-' buttons were replaced with newly designed buttons more consistent with the overall appearance of other buttons in the app.
⍟ UI Improvement: The UI for the AR button creation section of the Create screen was improved so that buttons can be re-ordered on the fly by tapping up and down arrows next to the button selection pane.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a minor bug that had resulted in the Crop button in the image selection pane of the Create screen being incorrectly labeled with the word "Trim".
⍟ Critical Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in image cropping not actually being saved after tapping the save button.
8.7.1
2023-03-20
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 87.1:
⍟ Epic New Feature: The new "Capture QR Code" feature lets you easily scan any QR code to be associated with an AR experience created in AR & VR Viewer. If you already have a card with a QR code and you would like to just scan that to display AR in the app then this is the feature for you.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen pull-down menu option for claiming a QR code has now been given a submenu with the two options for claiming.
⍟ UI Improvement: Tapping the Learn More buttons in the Subscriptions page will now go to a general purpose pricing page instead of specific page for each subscription.
⍟ UI Improvement: Smart QR codes generated with AR & VR Viewer will now go to a special page that specifically describes the process of scanning QR codes to experience AR if the user does not have the app installed.
⍟ UI Optimization: "Store" and "Shop" were renamed to "Subscription"
⍟ UI Optimization: A UI optimization was implemented that resizes some tooltips.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a minor issue that had resulted in some helper tooltips being displayed even after selecting 'Disable Help' option in the main menu.
8.7.0
2023-03-06
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.9:
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a recent store-related issue that had caused some purchase attempts to result in unknown errors.
8.6.9
2023-03-06
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.9:
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a recent store-related issue that had briefly resulted in some purchase buttons not accurately reflecting purchase status.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a recent store-related issue causing the possibility of new subscription purchase attempts to sometimes not complete successfully when done inside the app.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a recent store-related issue that had resulted in the "More Info" button sometimes not displaying the web page corresponding with the product for which the button was tapped.
8.6.8
2023-03-06
Here's what's new in AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.8:
⍟ AR & VR Viewer "Basic AR" subscription will now be called "Lite".
⍟ AR & VR Viewer "XR Pro+" subscription will now be called "Premium".
⍟ AR & VR Viewer available subscriptions now include "Lite" and "Premium" only. Tier 2 and Tier 3 are no longer available for sale. Users who have purchased Tier 2 and Tier 3 subscriptions will be given full access until the subscription expires.
⍟ The screen where you create your custom push notifications was given better design with more text fields and buttons matching the app's general style.
⍟ The screen where you upload your VR video was improved with a text field making it quicker to enter or edit your VR video name.
⍟ The screen where you adjust your AR video settings was improved with better clarity about what the corner rounding setting does and simpler UI controls.
8.6.5
2023-03-02
AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.5 includes the following improvements:
⍟ New Feature: The Create screen's 3D model selection screen has been improved to display a thumbnail of the selected 3D model after it has been saved locally.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen now checks all project settings for unsaved changes in order to warn the user any time they have changed their project and they are attempting to navigate away from the project editor.
⍟ UI Improvement: The AR Button prompt/information text alert has been removed in order to simplify the process of creating AR buttons.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen's 3D model selection screen has been improved to have a more appealing visual appearance consistent with other screen UI.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen's 3D model selection screen has been improved to use steppers instead of '+' and '-' buttons in order to improve usability and appearance.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in temporary files remaining in the app's documents directory after no longer being needed.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in chosen font not being displayed in the Create screen's button editor.
⍟ UI Improvement: The VR section of the Create screen was improved so critical controls are in view without needing to expand the pane.
⍟ UI Improvement: The VR section of the Create screen was improved with an example button right next to the button color selection controls.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue with the image selection pane of the Create screen that had resulted in the app needing to be saved before images could be cropped. You can now crop the image to perfection without needing to save the project first.
⍟ UI Improvement: The image selection pane of the Create screen was improved so the app no longer needs to automatically sync the project's AR video when the image crop button is pressed.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in the View AR screen no longer playing AR video after a user interacts with the contact info button.
⍟ UI Improvement: The file size of the selected image is now displayed below the image in the Create screen's image selection pane.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in push notifications not being received when expected.
8.6.3
2023-02-26
AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.3 includes the following improvements:
⍟ UI Improvement: The wording for the Reclaim QR Code feature has been improved.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Video Trim screen was improved so that the timeline automatically resizes the mini-images to best fit the spread of the timeline. This improves the appearance of the Video Trim screen's timeline in situations where the video being trimmed is portrait orientation.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Video Trim screen was improved so that the video automatically resizes to optimally fit the screen.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for a rare issue that had sometimes resulted in users needing to wait for two asset download cycles in order to preview their project.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an uncommon issue that had resulted in the Preview screen sometimes displaying no project assets.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that had resulted in needing to save a project before going to the Preview screen in some rare cases.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that had resulted in needing to save a project before going to the AR Demo screen in some rare cases.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that had resulted in needing to save a project before going to the Video Crop screen in some rare cases.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix has been implemented for an issue that had resulted in needing to save a project before going to the Video Trim screen in some rare cases.
8.6.2
2023-02-23
AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.1 includes the following improvements:
⍟ New Feature: Video crop feature has been added to video selection screen.
⍟ New Feature: Video trim feature was added to video selection screen.
⍟ New Feature: Image crop feature has been added to image selection screen.
⍟ UI Optimization: Project name button was given two lines of text in order to be able to display longer project names without truncating.
8.6.0
2023-02-18
AR & VR Viewer Version 8.6.0 includes the following improvements:
⍟ Awesome New Feature: A new feature called the "Reclaim QR Code" feature has been implemented for the Create screen. The Reclaim QR Code feature lets users create a new project associated with an existing AR & VR Viewer QR code for which the project was accidentally deleted. This feature is intended to prevent any excessive reprinting of printed materials resulting from accidental project deletion.
⍟ Bug Fix: A fix was implemented for an issue that had resulted in potential app unresponsiveness in certain rare circumstances involving users attempting to use the 3D preview feature on projects that had no saved image or video.
⍟ UI Optimization: The QR code section of the Create screen has been improved to make the QR code easier to see in dark mode.
⍟ UI Improvement: The QR scanner now displays the AIN number when a deleted project's QR code is scanned.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen's contact info section has been improved.
⍟ UI Improvement: The Create screen's contact info section now displays a preview image that shows what the selected contact info AR button will look like with the selected colors.
⍟ UI Optimization: The placement of tooltips in the Create screen was fine-tuned.