EON-XR

General bug fixes and stability improvements
Support for 360 spheres for hard skill lessons

Avatar Interaction Enhancement:
- Advanced Animation & Sentiment Analysis:
Upgraded inverse kinematics system for more natural avatar animations. Avatars now exhibit context-sensitive gestures and speech modulation (English only) based on sentiment analysis, particularly during role-playing training modules.



Lesson Markup Expansion:

- MVB Lesson Edit Mode Enhancements:
Broadened editing features in Metaverse Builder (MVB) Lesson Mode. Users can now implement a wider array of 3D objects and markers, facilitating the creation of more engaging and visually instructive models and environments.

Interactive Procedural Guidance:
- Empower Learning with Interactive Steps:
Tools for creating detailed procedural training. These features allow instructors to build step-by-step guides using 3D models to demonstrate complex tasks, enhancing practical skill development and comprehension.

Soft Skills Training Customization:

- AI-Generated Atmospheres:
AI creation of immersive environments for soft skills Xperiences. These tailored atmospheres complement the theme of each training session and support customizable evaluation metrics.

User Experience (UX) Enhancements

- Enhanced Usability:
Refinements for a more seamless platform interaction. Updates include options to streamline the interface by toggling AI Portal and avatar visibility, clearer visual guidance systems, enhanced documentation, and the added functionality to retake quizzes for improved learning.

Multi-Object Lesson Configuration:

- Freedom to Create:
Simplified creation of multi-faceted educational content. The platform now supports the development of multi-object lessons without the need for complex AI-driven processes, fostering an environment conducive to focused learning experiences.

Implemented fixes for knowledge portal movie playback issues.
Added general stability fixes.

This is a maintenance release to address a few issues in:
- The new language implementation.
- Annotation display in 360 Xperiences.

- Multilingual Support: Create Metaverse Builder Xperiences in any of the 20+ supported languages. Elements like knowledge portal content, narration, and more are tuned to your chosen language.
- AI Ready Lite: Import Xperiences from any catalog and effortlessly transform them into full-fledged Metaverse Builder Xperiences with our guided AI assistant.
- New Category Handling: Simplified category selection with AI-driven suggestions, eliminating manual navigation.

- Marketplace Improvements: AI reports, mobile access, and Xperience previews boost buyer confidence, ensuring informed decisions before purchase.



Upgrade now for an enhanced Xperience creation journey!

New features:

Course Creator
- Transform any course from any educational institution into an immersive 3D training experience effortlessly
- The courses are curated and picked by AI to be ideal for 3D and XR (hard skills types) or suitable for interactive role-play training (soft skill types)


Avatar Narration Manager
- Edit, regenerate, and reorder AI-generated lectures for a personalized learning experience



Jeopardy Customization
- Questions and answers from generated Jeopardy assessments can now be edited for a tailored experience


Role Play Customization
- Specify custom scenarios, roles, and opponent AI personas to customize your soft skill training experience even further


Batch Quiz Import
- Streamline workflow by importing multiple quizzes from CSV files



360-Environment for Soft Skill Experiences
- Enhance realism in soft skill training with matching 360 environments


Bug Fixes:

- Resolved an issue preventing double tap/click to zoom into lower hierarchy levels
- Enhanced handling of model annotation mismatches for a smoother user experience
- Improved the behavior of floating annotations for 3D objects
- Fixed a bug where sometimes none of the answers were marked as correct for autogenerated quizzes

- EON SoftSkills: Engage in immersive role-play with a 3D AI opponent to horn and assess your soft skills
- Contextual and Interlinked Knowledge Discovery: Further explore sub-topics from a chosen main topic for in-depth knowledge discovery
- Custom Sub-Topic Exploration: Add your own custom sub-topics to the main subject
- Enhanced MVB Play Mode Experience: Improved play mode with multimedia presentations, interactive quizzes, and Jeopardy games

- EON Interact Move, Rotate and Color actions: Inject life into your models using these easy to use actions
- Color customization of Annotations: Added option to customize color scheme for annotations
- Custom background color: Can be set to any color

- QR code sign-in: Conveniently login to EON-XR using QR codes
- Various enhancements and fixes for Metaverse Builder
- Various fixes and enhancements specific for Desktop Spatial AI (MVB desktop mode)
- Various fixes and enhancements for 3D and 360 Xperiences

New Features:
- Spatial UX: Redesigned UI with translucent panels and streamlined user experience for the spatial environment
- Train AI: Create learning Xperiences with generative AI that are truly adapted and customized to your organization data
- Introductory and ambient audio for 360 Scenes: Customize each 360 scene entry with unique audio and ambient sound for improved learning experience

Updates:
- Improved on-screen button readability in all background conditions
- Faster loading time of 360 Scenes for seamless scene transitions
- Improved process for importing scanned models from Scaniverse
- Expanded AI Persona support: Chosen AI persona will be applied to all AI generated content and not just conversations
- Dynamic Help screens: More comprehensive infographics and onscreen tooltips that are adapting dynamically to each application mode for better guidance
- QR Code login: Convenient mobile login using QR code scanning

- While playing back a 3D recording (in play mode), the Follow Camera option is now working again
- Improved the avatar head animations
- Fixed UI layout problem when editing 360 lessons with portals
- After finishing the AI-assisted creation process, the + button won't be disabled anymore

- Introducing AI persona: choose a distinguished teaching and response styles of the AI assistant, such as primary school level teacher or university level professor, or customize it using your own prompt.
- Skip segments of the AI generated presentations.
- Multi-anchor support for improved precision and stability of annotations in Explore mode.
- In multi-object procedures, objects can now be selected in any order or skipped.
- Upload/embed videos directly from the Knowledge Porta editor.
- Option to ignore model hierarchy, allowing grab interaction with any part of the model.
- Newly added objects are automatically scaled to correct size using AI.
- Shorter answers in AI-generated quizzes to avoid text truncation.
- Truncated annotations can be revealed in whole using new expand button on the annotation.
- Enhanced launch instructions for landscape mode usage on iPad.
- Usability and bug fixes

Changes:
- To download Sketchfab models, you now need to create your own account and link it to the EON-XR app
- Added reset button to annotation voice input dialog

- Pick & Ask and Suggested questions always use English voice regardless of keyboard language
- Improved Identify validation by trimming white spaces

- Improved image retrieval in Knowledge Portals
- Improved Explore learning experience with real world annotations

- Fixed header alignment of 360 asset upload screen

- Fixed Digital Twin options unable to expand and collapse when no model is in the scene

- Added two new AI Assisted Learning Experiences:
* Create: User chooses a topic (from a pre-defined list or custom), and the AI assistant generates a multimedia presentation of the subject and its subcomponents, and provides assessments to test the knowledge at the end.
* Explore: User tags an object in their physical environment with a name and the AI Assistant gathers information and generates a multimedia presentation of the annotated object.

- Enhanced Show & Tell presentations that supports both 3D models and Real World Annotations.
- Pick & Ask: Pick any object or part in the scene and start a context aware conversation with the AI to learn about it.
- Improvements and bug fixes.

* EON AI Assistant now supports over 20 languages and can switch between multiple languages in a single session.
* AI responses can be replayed by tapping on conversation bubbles in the AI Portal.
* The AI Assistant now points to both parts of an object and real-world annotations with matching names.
* Avatar download speed has been improved.

* The Interact portal can now be accessed using a new button to the right of the AI Portal toggle button.
* The text element in the Knowledge Portal is now generated by AI for higher quality output.
* New 3D assets can be filtered by category when adding them on the Sketchfab tab.

* The EON AI Assistant has been enhanced with exciting new features that will elevate your AI experience to the next level:
- AI Portal: Your conversation with the AI assistant is now transcribed as chat messages
- Show & Tell: While the AI assistant responds to your queries, it will highlight specific parts of the 3D object (if the part names match)
- Suggested Questions: getting a list of intelligent questions to ask the AI is only a click away
- AI-assisted Quiz generation: automatically generate quiz questions about the subject to test your knowledge
- AI Report: Get a comprehensive overview of your AI experience, including transcripts, activities, knowledge portals media, lesson plans and more.

* The new Interaction Portal makes it easy to manage and preview your interactions.
* You can now create persistent annotations that stay in place even when you leave the experience, making it easier to collaborate with others (requires a LiDAR enabled device).
* Exiting the EON Metaverse Builder Xperience now provides access to options such as publishing to the Market Place.

- EON AI Assistant bug fixes
- 360 Xperience bug fixes

- EON AI Assistant, a digital tutor powered by AI that can answer any questions you have in your learning quests almost instantly.
- Improved preview and simplified workflow when creating interactions with EON Interact.
- Bug fixes.

New add-on features:
- EON Interact - create interactions to enhance your learning experience
- EON Illuminate - create shared AR experiences that can persist between sessions and used with co-located users



Major updates to EON Metaverse Builder:
- Simplified creation of Knowledge and Assessment Portals
- Rename annotations
- Anchor, rotate, scale and move all objects simultaneously
- Turn on/off the Knowledge Portals with a separate toggle button
- Anchor an object on another 3D object already in the scene
- Sound cues on important events



Other major updates:
- The Locate and Identify activities in touch mode now works the same as in AR mode.
- Select part when creating activity in Assessment Portal
- New look and feel on lesson browsing interface with personalized contents, faster search with more options, social media functions such as comment, like and follow

This is a maintenance release, for correcting issues found after the initial 9.5 release.

Highlights in this release:
- Metaverse Builder with multi-object support and assessment creation in AR mode
- Avatar customization and lip sync with Ready Me Player
- Play video from a custom URL
- Closed captioning of YouTube videos
- Inline editing of part names in the hierarchy view
- Portals in 360 lessons
- Add a background sound to a lesson
- Improvement and fixes in animations
- Import Sketchfab objects on Windows and MacOS

- Fixed so certain old lessons created with EON-XR classics can be loaded properly
- Fixed so the annotation activities are not auto-renamed when renaming the annotation

- Added more shader variants for better support of so glb files exported from Microsoft Paint3D.
- Fixed audio playback issue for By-Reference 3D Lessons.

- Fixed a transparency issue where objects with transparent parts were opaque.

- Fixed a lighting issue on scanned meshes where the ambient lighting was missing resulting in darker than usual shading.

- Fixed an animation issue where separate animation sequences with different starting time were played all at once.

- Improved the UI on 3D assessment for single mesh objects. You can now use touch in addition to laser buttons to pick the annotation dots while doing 3D assessment.



- Added 49 additional languages for the Audio Text-to-Speech activity such as Bulgarian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and more.
- Fixed an issue where lessons with some Chinese/Japanese characters on the lesson name cannot be loaded.

- Sketchfab import in the mobile app
- Faster browsing for lessons both on the web and in the apps
- Play mode preview while in edit session
- Delete all annotations without activities
- Multiple-answer quizzes
- Merged XR: AR mode is now the default at startup
- 3D assessment for single mesh objects
- Texture compression of assets (lowering graphics memory usage and allowing more textures/objects to be used for a lesson)
- Many other productivity improvements and bug fixes

New accessibility features:

- When uploading your own audio files or doing live audio recordings, they are automatically transcribed so close captions can be shown at playback.
- Use arrow keys to rotate around in 360 lessons.
- Shortcut keys to trigger commonly used commands.

Other new features:
- Experimental iPad multitasking support.
- Improvement in Merged XR.
- Added localization support for Hindi, Polish and Tamil.

- Set lesson initial view from options menu.

- Tooltips are shown when hovering over certain UI elements.

Important bug fixes:
- 1:1 button in AR mode will no longer disappear when switching between Touch and AR mode.
- Avatar animation in 3D playback is not jittering or jerky anymore.

- Global Activity (+) add button is no longer showing up in AR mode.
- Animated models imported from Sketchfab will not flicker anymore.