We are proud to announce that we have just released The Universe in Neos! In this narrative educational experience you'll travel from the simplest elementary particles to the entire observable universe.
Education is something that's always been close to our hearts and where Neos has its roots. Back in 2015...
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With Halloween upon us, we have been preparing a special livestream for everyone, with some fun games where you can win some free space. Make sure you don't miss it this Sunday if you'd like some Neos spooks!
On the development side, we upgraded the Lite...
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With the conclusion of the Metaverse Maker Contest, we're excited to bring you the winners and honorable mentions this year!
But first, everyone has done an outstanding job. The level of creativity, imagination and skills you have brought in this year has made it very difficult to pick the winners ...
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First of all, congrats to everyone on finishing your MMC 2021 projects! Whether your project is big or small, you should be proud of the work you've done and the creativity you've shared with the rest of the community. We can't wait to check all the awesome submi...
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While we are internally finalizing one of the educational experiences for public release, there's a number of general features and improvements that have been sprouted from this work, that should benefit anyone using Neos.
You can now bake rigged (...
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While we continued our focus on educational experiences this week, we added a number of general features and improvements along the way. Notably we now support importing arbitrary animation files from JSON!
This makes it easy to create animation tracks (eit...
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This week we have a number of smaller, but hopefully very useful additions. Notably, you can now sample colors from static 2D and 3D textures from LogiX! This opens up new options for content creation, by letting you encode various data into texture assets and then r...
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Last week we have released one of the biggest updates to Neos yet, upgrading the physics engine from BEPUv1 to BEPUv2, with a greatly improved performance and re-engineered how the integration works with Neos and has been one of the top requested changes ...
Come take part in the excitement with the biggest contest in Neos ever—Metaverse Maker Competition. More prizes, More categories. More fun. Work collaboratively or alone. Create whatever you wish: worlds, games, avatars, effects, code, gadgets, tools…
Since MMC2020 Neos’ community h...
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First, sorry for being a bit more sparse with them recently. Majority of my (Frooxius) focus went into finalizing BEPUv2 upgrade. This has now reached an exciting stage, where it has feature parity with the old build and we are working out bugs and issues...
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This week things were a bit quieter, as most of the effort goes to the BEPUv2 upgrade now, but regardless we have released a few smaller additions, tweaks and bugfixes, mostly some small quality of life improvements.
Notably desktop mode now has Pr...
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We have some exciting news for you. Based on increasing community requests, feedback and votes, we have implemented two factor authentication for the accounts! You can now secure your account with Time-Based One Time Password (TOTP), using an app like Aut...
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This one is going to be relatively short, as we were busy with the VBLFC over past week, the first official online convention held on our platform. It has broken the record number of concurrent users, reaching 432 peak on Steam.
We also look at some of the...
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This week has been pretty quiet in terms of Neos updates as BEPUv2 implementation has ramped up, but we still have some interesting things that have happened around Neos!
If you missed our June community showcase livestream, check out the recording below, we showed off some awesome maps, game...
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This week has been quieter in terms of development as the last, as the main focus is on integrating BEPUv2, but we have added some useful features regardless. Notably, Neos now supports nested sessions!
Those are ideal for setting up hub worlds, when hosti...
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Since our major focus is on integrating BEPUv2, we have mostly smaller additions, tweaks and bugfixes to talk about, but hopefully still good ones. We also have some big news for the team itself!
Canadian Git and Raith have now joined the official ...
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This one is a bit lighter on features as I was on my break for the last week or so, but we still have lots of cool goodies for you! One of the fun projects I did was a functional importer for Minecraft worlds, which can import even pretty large maps with ...
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With the first phase of desktop complete, we have focused on clearing up a bunch of smaller additions, tweaks and bugfixes. The desktop Freeform camera now automatically outputs your voice when applicable and we added more notes for accessing the user's v...
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We have finalized the first phase of our desktop mode support with addition of Freeform Camera mode! This lets you decouple the view fully from your avatar and freely fly through the scene and use freeform cursor to interact with items and gizmos.
The came...
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Last Friday we showcased the community creations from the month of April, we had quite a good crop of games and interactive worlds! From the incredibly polished narrative escape room experience Cabin Of The Seasons, to MurderX game from the Japanese community with...
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We have very exciting updates for you. This week we have released our Cloud Variable system, a new powerful tool for persistence independently of objects and worlds, allowing you to sync settings across worlds and avatars, build world with progression system, sync...
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This week we have some work in progress developments for you. We have made more improvements and tweaks to our desktop mode, adding occlusion handling to third person camera mode to avoid the camera clipping through walls, improving input and camera handling and ...
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NeosVR can now be played in third person mode in desktop! Simply press the Alt key (this will change soon, check the release notes for latest binding) to toggle between first and third person on the fly. This mode makes it easier to see your own character...
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We have some more good news for the desktop users! Building in the new desktop mode is now significantly easier, with gizmos and LogiX now being much more friendly to mouse and keyboard operation. Not only that, but VR users benefit from those changes as ...
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We have several very exciting news this week - the first phase of our new desktop mode has been finished and released to public! Simply launch Neos without a VR headset to use it! It has all the core interactions for casual use implemented - you can grab things, click,...
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We have some exciting news this week! HTC has released the VIVE Facial Tracker to general public, giving everyone access to full realtime facial tracking inside of VR. Neos has had native support for this hardware for a while, but with the release we have added an extra level of polish and automated...
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This week we have some more important progress to share on the new desktop mode, which now has core interactions implemented! You can click, grab, interact with UI's and scroll with your mouse after you switch to the new desktop mode. The system will also pose your avatar...
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We have some exciting progress to share on the development of our proper desktop mode. Thanks to several additions it has reached its first usable state for VR users for dynamic switching. There's still lots of work to do to bring it to feature parity and allow to use it ...
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This week we have some exciting news on the progress on the desktop mode. One of the major pre-requisites, the first phase of an input binding system, has been completed, finishing a large rework of Neos' internals in order to support new functionality. T...
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A quick note before we get started, we’re now officially moving the weekly update from Sunday to Monday to make it easier on our schedules (especially with Creator Jam going on Sunday) and to keep our weekend more free.
We have a few important things to a...