Features

Camera Drone

Introducing the Camera Drone! This is a new feature for VRC+ subscribers.

The Camera Drone is a fully-functional drone that you can fly within VRChat. You can use it as an additional recording tool, or you can simply fly around with all of your friends!

Not an expert at flying? That's okay! The Camera Drone features a handful of control and flight settings that can change the way it behaves, meaning that no matter your experience with flying (in VRChat or otherwise), you should be able to get the hang of it!

(You can find the Camera Drone in the Quick Menu Camera section!)

(As a note, we're looking for worlds to fly the Camera Drone in -- generally, they should have accurate colliders and be fairly scenic. If you have suggestions, tag us on social media with #VRCDrone!)

Camera Dolly

This has been in beta since the last major release, but will ship to live with 2025.1.3!

If you have been using the Open Beta previously for Camera Dolly, please check the small section under Features & Changes that have a few notes relevant to you.

Selfie Expression

Seflie Expression enables you to use your webcam to add tracking to your desktop avatar! As a note, this feature is in Early Access VRC+ for subscribers, although it's likely it will eventually become a general-access feature.

Yes, that's right -- this feature allows desktop users to track their facial expressions, head and eye movement, and even their hands.

This system uses built-in visemes and your webcam -- meaning that it should work for most avatars with no additional effort required!

Selfie Expression adds an entirely new level of interaction for desktop users. Wave to your friends! Smile! Give them a high-five! Pat them on the head! You can do it all, baby.

Because Selfie Expression requires the use of your webcam (and because everyone has a different environment/system), there are new options related to this feature in Settings, under Tracking & IK. Likewise, because it requires the use of your webcam, you have to enable it here before it will work.

All webcam data is processed locally -- the image is never sent to us or other users. This does, however, mean it can be a little heavy on some systems. Beware!

(Note: if you notice your avatar's eyes aren't tracking, it's likely you haven't set up eyelook in the SDK! Go fix it!)

Changes & Fixes

• The Safety Settings Menu has been completely redesigned.
  • All of the old Safety Settings can now be found alongside the regular Settings, instead of in their own menu.
  • This allows us to add more options for users, giving them more customization over their experience.
• We've updated the instance creation flow.
  • Instance creators can now choose to enable or disable a bunch of features.
    • This includes Emoji, Stickers, Sharing Pedestals, Prints, and Drones.
    • These can be adjusted on-the-fly after the instance has been created.
    • If they are disabled while content is in the world, that content will be removed.
      • Ex: If there are Prints or Stickers in the world and you disable them, they will all be removed from the world.
  • You can do this via the client. World authors can also choose the defaults for their world from the website.
  • Public instances not owned by any group will always use the defaults chosen by the world author.
• Hover states over the entire UI have been improved, making them more consistent across platforms.
• User Details Status, Trust Rank, and Age Verification are now inside a field that can be scrolled through, giving this section a little more room. This is useful for languages that needed the space.
• Fixed being able to sit in stations on distance or personal space hidden avatars.
  • If you're in a station on an avatar, you will now be removed from the station if that avatar becomes hidden by distance.
• Improved the visual quality of the loading screen.
  • Things were blurry. We called the optometrist.
• Fixed an issue that would cause others to hear a pop if you muted yourself while you were still transmitting audio.
• In some rare cases, the transparent microphone icon would pop up on the loading screen. This has been fixed.
• Fixed alignment issues in the Instance Creation menu.
• PhysBone Tweaks!
  • PhysBones now run in order of dependency. This means you can put a VRCPhysBone/VRCPhysBoneCollider on an object under another PhysBone component, and they will run in the proper order. The max dependency depth is set to 8 levels deep.
  • Fixed issues related to when PhysBone gravity falloff is calculated. Now it should no longer mater what position the player is in when switching to a new avatar, the gravity falloff will be calculated the same each time.
  • Minor optimizations for PhysBones.
• Notification events on top of the Quick Menu should now always display the proper image.
• Fixed Print images that are saved locally during creation.
• Fixed an issue that could lead to disconnects if spawning more than 50 prints in one instance.
  • But, like, stop.
• Fixed inconsistent ability to interact with the "Show badge on profile" and "Hide badge" options.
• Improved messaging if an error occurs while attempting to buy VRC+ on Steam.
• Fixed spacing issues with the Main Menu affecting localization.

Notes for the Very Special Open Beta Folks

All of the above stuff is new for 2025.1.3! But if you've already been using Open Beta for the Camera Dolly, we have a few specific changes for you:

• The Camera Dolly Advanced Settings have been tweaked.
  • Adjusted the Camera Dolly menu a smidge: The Audio from Camera, Export, and Import buttons have been moved into an expandable group, similar to Emoji camera mode buttons.
  • Also fixed a bug where camera menu expandable groups didn't rotate in and out of portrait orientation correctly.
• Fixed camera dolly import menu not working when OSC is disabled.
• When you hover over UI elements for the Camera Dolly, you will now see tooltips.

March 13, build 1602

Changes & Fixes

• Added a help button to the Camera Drone's UI.
  • This links to an extensive in-game documentation about the Camera Drone.
• New Drone controller visuals!
  • The design of the controller now matches the drone itself better, including antenna ears and a new color scheme!
  • Improved the Drone model's texture to match.
• The drone controller's position now restores more reliably when leaving FPV mode.
• The camera and drone controller will now spawn in the opposite hand for a more natural orientation when opening them via the Quick Menu.
• Fixed a timing issue that could cause instance settings to mismatch between users in the same instance.
• Fixed issues with worlds using GetTrackingData for the Head position in combination with Selfie Expression.
  • It will match the Camera's position again.
• Fixed a variety of UI regressions:
  • The avatar cells on the wings will once again only display their text on hover.
  • Increased the size of the "hamburger" menu button on the wings menu.
  • Increased the size of the Quick Menu back button and made sure it was consistent across all pages.
  • On the User Details pages the "Block User" and "Hide Avatar Globally" buttons should now use the correct color.
  • Updated the hover image on the represented group to fit the more square shape.
  • Removed the underline from "By" in the world details page.
• Fixed camera lens becoming invisible after closing the drone controller with Spout enabled.
• Fixed handheld camera showing a white screen when traveling while having it open.
• Handheld camera should no longer be visible on loading screens.
• Stream Camera and Spout output will now show black instead of random colors and images from world origin while loading a world.
• Fixed performance regressions with OnTriggerStay in some worlds.