Features

Nameplate, Profile Changes

We've completely revamped two very large parts of our UI: the User Profile and the Nameplate.

So, let's talk about what's changed!

User Profile

Not that long ago, we updated the User Profile on the VRChat website. This change to the client brings it in-line with those stylistic changes. If you've seen what the website looks like, none of this should come as a surprise!

This design should make everything in the profile a lot more readable at a glance. It also opens up some extra customization options. More on that in a second...

Name Plates

The big one -- we're updating Name Plates. They look different now!

Our goal has been to try to reorganize a lot of the information that was presented by the previous nameplate, while also modernizing the design and providing additional customization options.

To that end, you'll notice the User Profile Icon is now always visible. That's because it's no longer a VRC+ feature -- now everyone can have an icon. For now, those without VRC+ will be limited to using the in-game camera to create an icon.

We expect you might have a lot of feedback! We want it! This design has room to evolve. While we've tried to think of everything we can, we know you'll likely have some great ideas.

Profile Decorations

So, speaking of additional customization...

Alongside the redesign, we're offering users the opportunity to customize their Nameplate, Icon, and Bio in a brand new way: with Profile Decorations!

These are animated! And cool. And we're giving you two sets of them if you participate in the Open Beta: Reference Cube, Teal and Purple.

To acquire said Reference Cube Decoration Sets, you'll have to pick them up from the Shop. They're free -- grab them! Only Beta users will see them, though. Also, you can equip them via your Profile!

Changes & Fixes

• We've added "Laser User Selection" (AKA, right click selection) for PC.
  • You can enable or disable it via User Interface Settings. It's enabled by default.
  • The reticle changes when hovering on selectables before making the right click to show users what objects are selectables.
  • Along with the reticle change a hint image appears below the reticle showing that the selection activates using the right click, this hint disappears after 3 uses for each type of selectable (sticker, portals, users, items, etc).
  • Users can now press the mouse right click on selectables to highlight them, releasing right click will selecte them and open the corresponding menu.
• You can now report bugs from within the client!
  • You can do so via the Quick Menu. Click the Report (!) button, located in the top right corner, then click "Bug Report."
  • This feature supports automatic uploading of your client log file.
• Introducing Signed Distance Fields (SDF)!
  • Stickers and Emoji now get a gpu-side check to see if they're 'cutout' friendly. That is, only have partially transparent pixels close to edges.
  • If they are, we run our own SDF calculation that turns their alpha into infinitely scalable images that look more like vector art.
  • SDFs increase both legibility and performance!
  • These images get pixel-perfect antialiasing and clipping at any distance and from nearly any angle, even on Android!
  • Emojis have been upgraded to utilize this new tech and get a facelift, they'll no longer be super aliased from a distance, even if animated.
• Fixed a menu soft lock bug triggered by switching to a performance-gated avatar via a pedestal in the instance.
• Previewed Accessories in the Accessories tab of the Shop are now shown on their own rather than attached to your current avatar.
  • You might not see this change, but most users will.
• Some camera additions!
  • Added a black and white filter to the Camera.
  • Added a "Dog Vision" option to the Color Filters settings in the Quick Menu Settings page and the Main Menu Settings Accessibility tab.
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  • "Apply To World" now applies the selected filter settings to the world for the Desktop Steadycam view when that option is enabled from the Camera menu in PCVR.
• Changed uses of the word player with user for clarity in several strings.
• Fixed some overflowing texts on QM Selection menus and localized some strings that were unlocalized in various areas.
• Fixed an issue where the max Prop spawning distance in relation to your current avatar size was sometimes wrong in third-person view.
• Improved position and timing of entry Warp Effects.
• Updated styling for compact user cells across the UI.
• Reintroduced precisely highlighting pickups that can change shape, in other words SkinnedMeshRenderer support for VRC_Pickup.
  • We reverted this one in the last release due to it affecting some content. We've now added a field to specify which meshes exactly to outline.
  • The SDK that will allow them to fix that is not shipping with this patch, however. Next release will have it!
  • We feel that the amount of content this affects is extraordinarily small, but we still wanted to note this here anyway!
• Users with slower connections should no longer appear at world origin before moving to their correct spawn location.
• Prop Abilities have been enabled in the client.
  • We previously mentioned this change for world creators in the last release.
  • Instance creators can now do the same thing, giving them the ability to disable certain Props from being spawned.
• Recently Used avatars section in the wings now works properly on fresh installs.
• Updated the design of user cells in the Friends and Groups wings.
• World category buttons no longer have clickable/hoverable regions extending above them to steal focus from the other buttons.
• Shiny/metallic materials now render correctly in the Avatar Accessories editor.
• Greatly improved the reliability of VRCObjectSync, specifically around ensuring that the final state after motion is the same between all players in an instance.
  • Déjà vu? We had that one in 2026.2.3, but needed to revert it for internal reasons. This release brings it back!
• Fixed loading screen preview inconsistencies.
• Slightly improved instance loading speed.
• Performance and memory optimizations.

July 24, Build 1879

Changes & Fixes

User Profiles

We've made several adjustments to the User Profile's layout, based on testers' feedback.

We also made several optimizations to User Profiles, including a fix to an issue that caused Profile textures to download at much higher resolution than necessary.

• Avatar info will appear in the Profile again for users in the same instance.
• Updated tooltip text seen when hovering the current avatar.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented User Profiles from loading properly in the menu.
• Fixed some regressions affecting status text.
• Added a confirmation modal when unfriending a user.
• The Boop button no longer appears when the feature has been disabled by a user.
• Clicking your own pronouns in the User Profile will now open the edit modal.
• Added a hover effect to the Status button on your own profile. (You can click it, by the way.)
• Invite/Request Invite buttons no longer appear for other users when you're already in the same instance with them.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Profile Effect icon to be tinted a random color.
• Fixed an occasional desync between the status icon's color and the displayed status.
• Fixed a bug that could cause saving changes to your profile to fail.
• The mic volume slider for other users in the Quick Menu no longer resets when closed and opened again.

Nameplates

As with Profiles, we've made significant changes to the new Nameplates based on your feedback.

• Friends' names are once again yellow on Nameplates.
  • Other UI elements in the menus will not have the yellow color returned at this time.
• The yellow border on friends' Nameplates is now only shown in Icon-only mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Age Verification icon would always be seen by the local user on their own nameplate, even if they set it to hidden.
• Fixed an issue where pronouns, status, and Age Verification could fail to update on the local user's own Nameplate when changed.
• The chatbox's arrow no longer clips through the top of the Nameplate.
• Fixed chatbox positioning using the 3D location vs. a 2D offset, which led to clipping when viewing the Nameplate from above or below.
• Added a "Below" chatbox position mode (in addition to "Above" and "Forward") which makes it mimic the way it worked on the old nameplates.
  • The default will remain "Above", but you can switch if you find it clipping the world in tight spaces.
• Fixed non-latin characters not showing up in status text.
• Switched the icon used for indicating a user's platform (Quest/Android/iOS), and made it bigger.
• Added back the "Friend Pin" shown over Nameplates for people that are very far away.
• Nameplates now correctly cut off very long names.
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• Increased pronoun cut-off length.
• Fixed group banner opacity and made them no longer ignore opacity settings when the QM is open.
• Various minor layout, text size and alignment adjustments.
• Fixed the color of the status icon so it matches the actual status color used in the menus.

Known Issues

• Friends' offline duration does not appear in the menu.
• User's profile may not update after submitting changes. Resolved when navigating away and back.
• Adding a language and link at the same time may cause both sections to appear misaligned. Resolved when navigating away and back.

July 29, Build 1880

Changes & Fixes

Desktop Selection

The right-click selection feature on Desktop has been pulled from this release.

We made this change with the intent to make things a little easier for newer desktop users, who might expect certain behavior. We especially thought it might help them make their first friend!

Unfortunately, this change ended up impacting far too many worlds, so we're taking it back. We'll try something else at a later date.

User Profiles

• A "Creator" tag will now appear for users who have uploaded content to the marketplace.
• Separator characters are no longer affected by palette choices.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused small icons to tinted the wrong color.
• The "View All" buttons for Badges and Groups have been changed to have a smaller footprint.
• The user's Represented Group should now consistently appear at the top of the "Groups" section.
• Fixed an issue that caused the whole page to scroll when trying to scroll through a user's bio.
• Mutual friends now display the correct icon images.
• Added a maximum length for user notes.
• The "Send Invite" button now uses the correct icon.
• Fixed the spacing in the "More Options" modal.
• Fixed the border radius of the hover effects shown on world lists.
• The Gift VRC+ button is now always visible when viewing the More Options modal on another user's Profile.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Profile theme names from being edited.
• The option to show/hide Age Verification status in the Edit Profile modal no longer appears for users younger than 18.
• Fixed a known issue where selecting "Other" when editing your own pronouns would do nothing.
• Fixed an issue that caused the user icon to not appear on the "Change Icon Frame" button when selecting an Icon Frame in the Edit Profile modal.
• Fixed issue that caused the "Change Profile Effect" icon to appear low quality.
• Fixed a bug that caused an already selected language to appear when choosing languages to display on your profile.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent profile changes from being properly saved.
• Fixed an issue that caused layout problems in the Profile after adding a link and a language at the same time.
• Further layout adjustments, tweaks, and polish.

Nameplates

• Added back an indicator for Earmuff Mode on nameplates when in an expanded state.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Age Verification icon to appear, when it was set to hidden.
• Improved rendering quality of Voice FX (glow effect).
• The chatbox no longer overlaps the nameplate when in "Below" mode.
• The opacity setting will now default to 100%.
• Removed the Show Fallback Icon and Show Earmuffs Icon options from nameplate settings.
• The Fallback icon has been removed, and the Earmuffs icon will always show when the nameplate is expanded (Quick Menu open).
• Age Verification status on your own nameplate will now update immediately after you show/hide it via Edit Profile.

Other Menus

• Performance optimizations to new user identity elements across the UI.
• Dedicated "Friends" and "Other Users" sections have been added to the "In Instance" tab of the Social menu.
• Friends in the Quick Menu Here tab are now marked with a yellow icon.
• Fixed voice level indicator for remote users in the Quick Menu's profile tab.
• Adjusted layout and amount of information shown in the Quick Menu's user details panel.
• Fixed the border radius of the hover effects shown for the Quick Menu user details panel.
• Reduced spacing between users in the Friends Wing.
• General alignment fixes across the Wing menu.
• Layout adjustments to the Profile Wing.
• Fixed a bug that caused Discord icons to appear squished in compact User cells.
• Profile Decorations will now render correctly on Quest in the Preview modal.
• Fixed some layout issues when previewing Profile Decorations.

An Additional Note about Group Nameplates

We've heard your feedback regarding the Group Nameplate and we are working on adding an additional upload slot to the group management system for them.

We will improve our nameplate image cropping behavior to be more consistent and will include the template in this upload flow so you can be sure that your nameplate looks exactly like you'd like.

This is not in this patch, but given that it's been a major feedback item, we wanted you to know we're on it.

General Fixes

• Fixed transparent Emoji and Stickers appearing broken.
• Android devices will now replace rtspt:// URLs during video player loading with `rtsp://`` to work around a limitation of ExoPlayer.
• UDP-based RTP playback is now disabled on Android devices, since it was not functional. Instead, TCP will now always be used.
• Minor internal networking improvements.
• Fixed due to removal of right-click selection:
  • Fixed an issue where a user standing in front of World UI could block interaction with it.
  • Fixed an issue preventing left-click interactions with Companions.

Unity 6 Fixes

• Fixed collisions with non-uniformly scaled MeshColliders.
  • This affected player collision as well as world props.
• Improvements to WindZone not behaving in some worlds.
  • The underlying bug is not fixed entirely yet, but it may behave differently/better than before at least. We're working on it!
• Improved stability around world loading.

Known Issues

• Friends' offline duration does not appear in the menu.
• Sometimes icon frames appear as white rectangles when loading. They're haunting you.

August 4, Build 1881

Changes & Fixes

User Profiles

• Avatar Details will now appear for users you're in the same instance with, even if they're using a private avatar. (They were already accessible via the Quick Menu.)
• Found and fixed another bug that could prevent Profiles from loading.
• Groups, Badges, and Location panels are now clickable if they lead to additional details.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Bio text to cycle endlessly between scrollable and non-scrollable.
• The main scrollbar no longer clips out of the menu during the transitional animation.
• The "Get Age Verified" button now opens the actual Age Verification page on the web, instead of a blog post about it.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Badges panel to not display its header text.
• Removed the "Creator" tag.
  • It needs more time in the oven! It didn't necessary convey what we wanted it to, so we're pulling it back... for now.
• Adjusted the font size and text wrapping inside the Location panel.
• Added a visual hover state to the "Join VRC+"" button on the VRC+ callout that appears when a non-VRC+ user is editing their Profile Decorations.

Nameplates

• Fixed an issue that caused Icon Frame decorations to fail to load on Nameplates, leaving behind a white rectangle instead.
• Increased name cutoff on nameplates by 2 characters.
• User icons on Nameplates now update immediately after changing Shield Settings to blur/unblur them.

Other Menus

• Added dedicated "Friends" and "Other Users" lists to the Quick Menu's Here tab.
• Fixed the header text of the Wing Menu's Profile tab.
• Double-clicking users in the Wing menu will open their Profile in the Main Menu again.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong user's Profile to open from the Wing menu.
• Fixed an issue where avatar gallery images could sometimes appear out of order.
• In the Wing's Profile page, clicking your banner will now open the main Profile menu instead of the Change Banner modal.
• Fix the alignment of text on the Quick Menu's boop button that's shown when a user is selected.
• Fixed an issue that caused bios to overflow out of the Quick Menu user details panel that appears when hovering a user.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the Report Here menu to show broken user cells.
• The "User Icons" button on the Quick Menu's VRC+ tab now opens an icon selection dialog in the Main Menu.
• The icons used in the Item Ability settings now use your selected UI theme.
• Removed Nameplate Icons from the list of benefits on the VRC+ tab, because they are now available to everyone.

General Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could lead to softlocks after using "Switch Account" from the menu.
• Fixed the Drone safety toggle.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the keyboard UI to get stuck open.
• The "boop" sound effect that plays when you get a notification is now decoupled from your HUD visibility mode, meaning that you can still hear notification sounds even if your HUD is turned off.
  • If you'd prefer not to hear notification sounds at all, you can turn off the "Play Notification Audio" setting.

Unity 6

• Fixed Build & Test not loading for some world projects using Animation Events.

August 6, Build 1882

Changes & Fixes

Nameplates

• Nameplate layouts have been updated.
  • Pronouns have been moved down to share a line with the status.
  • Pronouns now have a background pill.
  • Muted and Deafened icons have been added.
  • Pronouns and status will now grow to minimize unused space.
  • The status icon was moved to overlap with the user icon.
  • Mutuals have been removed from the nameplate.
• Group Banners have increased in size.
• Group Banners align and scale much more consistently now, as the banner grows.
  • We recently shared plans to introduce a new upload slot for Group Nameplate Banners. This is not quite ready yet, but we wanted to get the nameplate changes out to you as soon as possible so we are using the Centered mode for now.
  • When the new upload slot is ready you will be able to upload a much tighter group banner.
  • You will also be able to select between the previously mentioned Anchored and Centered modes.
  • Our goal is to give groups a consistent canvas space so that they know where to put the most important information on their nameplate images.
• Group IDs are no longer displayed when the Hide Group Banners setting is enabled.

User Profiles

• The tab buttons have been removed to save some vertical space (i.e. Profile/Wallet/Inventory).
  • Wallet and Inventory are still accessible via their buttons at the top of the menu.
• Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistent menu behavior when launching into a user's Profile via the Quick Menu.
• Current Location's instance capacity now displays accurately.
• After opening the Profile menu via a notification, the back button now correctly leads to the Notifications menu.

Other Menus

• Friend and Discord icons on user cells now appear next to the username (to avoid being covered by decorations).
• Clicking the immediate area around a user's Mic Level slider in the Quick Menu will no longer launch their profile.
• Selecting a user in the Quick Menu's Report flow will no longer open their profile instead.
• The Inventory page defaults to the Bundles & Packs tab again, like it does on live.
• Fixed an issue that caused System Notifications to display a user icon.
• Notifications in the Quick Menu and Main Menu now use the same background behind their icon.
• Fixed an issue that caused some users' bios to truncate too early in the Quick Menu.
• Corrected the aspect ratio of world thumbnail images in the Friends Wing.

General Fixes

• Optimized image loading from the local cache.
• Fixed a few places where information was not being correctly hidden by Streamer Mode.