Features

World Favorites Increase

This beta includes support for doubling the amount of world favorites for VRC+ subscribers! While it's likely that this will make it to live, it will probably be disabled at first -- so please keep in mind you might not have access to all your additional favorites when 2026.1.1 releases.

We also added in some QoL changes for organizing your world favorites. Go look at Changes & Fixes to see them.

Group Progress Bar

We're experimenting with a new progress bar for users who have joined fewer than 15 groups. If you haven't joined that many groups yet, you'll see a bar on the Groups page that tracks your progress.

Essentially, we'd like to encourage newer users to try out features like Groups, so we're trying to gently nudge them to... well, do exactly that!

There is no "reward" for completing this, uh, challenge. The stakes have never been lower! (There is a little fanfare for completing it, though -- but, like, that's just for fun.)

Group Auto Invitations

Another experiment! If you hang around in a Group instance for a long enough period of time, you may receive an automatic invitation to join that particular group.

This only applies to groups that are public with open invitations enabled. You (and the group!) will have to be in the test cohort for this to trigger.

Likewise, if you make a friend in a Group instance (under the same conditions!) you might also receive a group invitation.

If you'd rather not see these automatic invitations, you can toggle them off! Go to Settings -> User Interface -> Notifications -> Automatic Group Invitations.

Live Now... for Everyone!

The Main Menu "Live Now" tab and Quick Menu Launchpad redesign has been rolled out to all users!

This was introduced in the previous patch, but should now be turned on for all users.

Changes & Fixes

• Added a "Quick Join" button for Groups in the Explore Groups tab.
• Made tweaks to Shop text, explaining listings with more clarity.
• Fixed the IsAnimatorEnabled avatar parameter not being set back to true when it should be, in some cases involving particle systems.
• Updated both the client and the website phrasing to help users understand what cancelling a subscription immediately entails.
• Fixed PhysBones regression which caused bones resting on PhysBone colliders to jitter.
• Various world favoriting improvements!
  • Added the ability to move worlds between favorite lists.
  • Improved the design of the world favoriting modal in the Quick Menu and Main Menu.
  • Improved the design of the world favorite lists sidebar elements.
  • Improved the design of the UI used to edit a world favorites list.
  • Soon. 👀
• Fixed a bug that would prevent users from being able to select other users while using the Quick Menu.
• Warp effects are now spawned when closing the client.

Android Mobile

• Added support for added favorites.
• Localization updates.
• Face mirror settings should work correctly now.
• Quick Menu "Select" button now works correctly.
• Users will not be stuck in focus view anymore.

January 14, Build 1781

Changes & Fixes

• Added the Performance Debug Dashboard. Use Right shift + ~ + 1 to open the debug menu, then click the new "Performance" tab.
  • This allows you to create and customize a performance dashboard, which can chart a wide variety of useful metrics.
  • This was actually in 1780, it just wasn't mentioned!
• The "Error World" has been updated. It's cool now.
• Fixed a bug that would reset the Worlds tab back to VRCat's Variety Box after removing an unavailable world from a favorites list.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the Worlds tab from re-populating after editing favorites via the World Details page.
• Fixed a regression related to Warp Effects that could cause nameplates to be hidden on other users when they shouldn't be.
• Fixed a regression that prevented some worlds from loading properly.
• Prints are now easier to drop gently in place, without drifting.
• Fixed an issue that caused Main Menu tabs to fail to load, after switching between them very quickly.

Known Issue(s)

• Sometimes, when editing your favorited worlds lists, you might experience hitching.

January 20, Build 1782

Changes & Fixes

• World Favorites lists 5-8 are now selectable in the Wing menus.
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the Main Menu's background to disappear.
• While filling out a report in the Quick Menu, clicking outside the keyboard to dismiss it will no longer leave you stranded in the Main Menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Quick Menu's report page to not close correctly when pressing Escape.
• Fixed an animation issue that could cause the keyboard to get stuck outside the menu's frame.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong information to display after clicking an Event's Join button.
• The radio buttons in the Quick Menu's Report flow make noises again. (They will not be silenced!)
• In the Debug menu's Performance tab, the data fields now show the latest sampled value (Cur).
  • Also, the Min/Max fields now display the limits of the displayed data, rather than the edges of the graph.
• In the Debug menu's Log Viewer tab, the header is once again anchored to the top of the window.
• Portals now display properly when they lead to a world with an empty name.
• Fixed an issue that caused placeholder text to appear in the info banner displayed for locked Avatar Favorites lists.

January 22, Build 1783

Changes & Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing framerate hitches every couple of minutes, which would get progressively worse over the course of a session.
  • Especially on Quest.
• Performance sampling is now disabled by default, and can be toggled directly from the Performance Debugging UI.