What changed in VRChat in 2019

Explore new creepy worlds and unnerving locales created by VRChat creators.

Enter your spooky World or Avatar into the Spookality contest with four categories.

Something's up with the VRChat Hub; players are encouraged to investigate.

VRChat's yearly Halloween event featuring spooky worlds and avatars.

Lots of updates to Full-Body Tracking functionality.

Sit/Stand button changes into a 'Calibrate' button when using Full-Body Tracking.

Improved the behavior and fidelity of Full-Body Tracking in many situations.

Implemented numerous fixes for the SDK, including a UI overhaul.

Grip no longer triggers OnInteract, affecting chair sitting and Interact triggers on Rift/Rift S/Index.

Significantly enhanced the speed at which avatars load.

Resolved an issue where Index controller wireframes would sometimes get stuck in user's hands.

The system now hides avatars less often when enabled.

Major update including changes to audio systems and SDK for creators.

Creators can download the latest SDK named VRCSDK-2019.07.31.13.58_Public.unitypackage.

Updated Unity version for improved performance and compatibility.

Improvements made to the Valve Index Controller functionality.

Refinements made to Networked Inverse Kinematics.

New feature to choose a minimum performance rank to hide poorly performing avatars.

The ability to swap microphones in-app has returned due to the Unity upgrade.

Support for Valve Index Controllers including finger tracking functionality.

New Advanced Settings in the Settings Menu to clear cache and local preference store.

Further optimizations and work on Networked IK, voice, and other systems.

New feature to disable/enable Gesture Overrides on the fly, currently only for Valve Index Controllers.

Several major optimizations to many of our systems like voice and UI.

Preparation for launch on the Oculus Quest.

Changes to the Notification system to speed up sending/receiving notifications.

Limit the number of Dynamic Bones on an avatar and customize limits with a configuration change.

You can now search Community Labs worlds if you've opted-in for Community Labs at least once.

A new SDK is available for uploading content to Community Labs.

A new way for creators to quickly get their worlds into public view.

You can now save up to 128 total worlds in your Playlists.

This release focuses on fixing some standing bugs with VRChat.