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Vuforia Studio AngularJS Update AngularJS has been updated to version 1.8.11. This release includes minor enhancements; no new features were added in this version. For more information about the bug fixes, see Fixed Issues in Vuforia Studio 10.3.0.

Vuforia Studio New Permission API A new Permission API now supports public experiences. When asset permissions are configured appropriately, the Product widget and data loading via the Product API are available in public experiences. For more information about the new Permission API, see the API documentation in Swagger available on your Experience Service (https://<your_es>/ExperienceService/api-docs). Product Widget Now Supported in Public Experiences The Product widget is no longer restricted to private experiences. The newly available Permission API enables access control for all assets uploaded or created in the Experience Service via the Product API. Support for ThingWorx 10.0 ThingWorx 10.0 is now supported. macOS Support Update: Future Deprecation of Intel-based macOS Systems Support for installing Vuforia Studio on Intel-based Mac machines is planned for deprecation in a future release. ARM-based Macs will remain supported. The specific release version in whi

Vuforia Studio Generate On-prem Model Targets Locally On-prem Model Targets can now be generated locally. Zinc Widget Redirects to Contacts The Zinc widget now redirects to the Contacts page. Vuforia View New Security Prompt for Deep Links and QR Codes in Vuforia View To enhance security, Vuforia View on Android and iOS now prompts users to confirm that they trust the Experience Service the first time they access it via a deep link or QR code. This helps prevent unintentional access to untrusted or unknown Experience Services. Experience Service Product API Now Supports SQLite DB SQLite DB is now supported for the Product API. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Vuforia Studio Vuforia Studio Product API The Vuforia Studio Product API is now available to enhance flexibility and efficiency when working with product-based data models and runtime experiences. For more information, see the following topics: Vuforia Studio Product API Vuforia Studio JavaScript Concepts Supported Runtime Functions New Product Widget The new Product widget allows you to retrieve information from the Experience Service and dynamically load or compare product assets at runtime. For more information, see Product. New Dynamic Target Widget The new Dynamic Target widget allows you to load various target datasets from both local and remote resources, and can dynamically load required targets at runtime. For more information, see Dynamic Target. New Use Cases in the Help Center Three new powerful use cases have been added to help you get the most out of the enhanced Product API, Product widget, and Dynamic Target widget. These examples show how to dynamically

Vuforia Studio New Contour Shader A new contour shader is available for outlining objects. For more information, see Shaders. New virtualMode Parameter for Highlight Shader A new virtualMode parameter is available for the highlight shader that renders highlighted parts as opaque. For more information, see Shaders. New Opacity Parameter for Flow Shader A new opacity parameter is available for the flow shader. For more information, see Shaders. State-based Model Target Updates General UI improvements for state-based Model Targets in the Model Target Editor A new targetState API is available for state-based Model Targets that provides the estimated state of the model. For more information, see JavaScript Event for State Changes in State-based Model Targets. Specify New Source Directory for Projects and Assets Users can now specify a custom source directory for their projects and assets. For more information, see Specify a Custom Source Directory for Vuforia Studio Projects

Vuforia Studio Documented Shaders Now Available for 3D Models Shaders used in various forms are now available as standard shaders that can be called from Home.js or <view>.js). Information for the following shaders is available: desaturate flow highlight planar_cut spherical_cut xray For more information, see Shaders. New Number Input Widget The new Number Input widget separates Number type input from the Text Input widget. Previously, you had to define either text or number type input all in the Text Input widget to include numerical input data. For more information, see Number Input.Note: Existing Text Input widgets with Number selected as Type will still work in published experiences, but editing widget data is locked. Use the new Number Input widget to include numerical input in your experience. Additionally, we do recommend replacing all existing numeric Text Input widgets with Number Input widgets, as all remaining Text Input widgets with Number set for Type will

Vuforia Studio Enhancements to userpick Event (iOS and Android only) The userpick event now contains geometric information that can be used to localize augmentations based on user interactions. For more information, see Geometric Information Mapping with the userpick Event. The response payload of the user pick event is added to the result “eventData” of the event listener $scope.$on(‘userpick’, function(event, targetName, targetType, eventData). Tracking Status API Now Available (iOS and Android only) Tracking status is now exposed via the Tracking API allowing you to build your own business logic linked to tracking status or tracking status changes. For more information, see Tracking Status API.Note: Tracking status is not available in preview. Multibyte Characters Now Fully Supported Multibyte characters are now supported in all of the following places: Display URLs Folder names Exported ZIP files The following enhancements were also made as part of this update: Experie

Experience Service Added Entra ID Configuration Examples An Entra ID SSO configuration example was added to the Help Center. For more information, see Microsoft Entra ID Configuration Example in the Experience Service and Admin Help Center. Added Okta SSO Configuration Example An Okta SSO configuration example was added to the Help Center. For more information, see Okta Configuration Example in the Experience Service and Admin Help Center. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Experience Service Added Entra ID Configuration Examples An Entra ID SSO configuration example was added to the Help Center. For more information, see Microsoft Entra ID Configuration Example in the Experience Service and Admin Help Center. Added Okta SSO Configuration Example An Okta SSO configuration example was added to the Help Center. For more information, see Okta Configuration Example in the Experience Service and Admin Help Center. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Vuforia Studio ThingWorx 9.5 Support ThingWorx 9.5 is now supported in Vuforia Studio. New Observation for Stationary Objects Preset A new Observation for Stationary Objects preset is available for Advanced Views for objects that can be recognized from any angle when standing around the object, but not from below it. For more information, see Observation for Stationary Objects in the Vuforia Developer Library. Note: This new guide view replaces the 360 Dome guide view that was previously available. macOS Sonoma Support macOS Sonoma is now supported. Vuforia View RealWear HMT-1 Devices No Longer Supported Vuforia View is no longer supported on RealWear HMT-1 devices, as RealWear has announced that the HMT-1 devices are at end-of-life and will no longer receive firmware or security updates beyond v12.6. We encourage you to upgrade to RealWear’s Navigator series for continued device support from PTC. For more information, see RealWear’s RealWear HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1 End of

Vuforia Studio 2D Rendering Updated from AngularJS to LitElement The 2D rendering in Vuforia Studio has been updated to use LitElement instead of AngularJS. Vuforia View RealWear RealWear has announced that RealWear HMT-1 devices are at end-of-life, and will no longer receive firmware or security updates beyond v12.6. As a result, we will be unable to fully support HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1 devices beginning in the upcoming 9.21.0 release. We encourage you to upgrade to RealWear’s Navigator series for continued device support from PTC. For more information, see RealWear’s RealWear HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1 End of Security Update support notice and Firmware Update and Support Policy. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

You can rename a project to avoid overwriting an existing published project with the same name on your Experience Service. To Rename your project, open the project you want to rename and click on the project name in the header bar; the field will become editable. For additional information, see Rename a Project  Here are a few things you need to consider when renaming a project: Renaming an already published project creates a duplicate of the project that is unpublished; it does not rename the already published project on the Experience Service To avoid having multiple copies of the same project on your Experience Service, unpublish the original project before renaming it and publishing it. Once you rename an already published project, and then publish the renamed project, a new QR code is created (different from the originally published project's QR code)

Vuforia Studio Known Issue: Unable to Upload Files to Vuforia Studio in Chrome for Mac OS There is currently a known issue in Chrome for Mac where users are unable to upload files to Vuforia Studio when using Chrome 122.0.0.0 and 123.0.0.0. If you are using either of the aforementioned versions of Chrome for Mac, please update to Chrome 123.0.6312.10 to resolve the issue. According to Google, this issue should be resolved in Chrome 124.0.0.0. For more information, see Google’s IssueTracker. New Project Overwrite Message When Publishing A new message appears when a user publishes a project that has the same name as an existing published project on the same Experience Service. Project Name Can Now Be Updated from the Header Bar within a Project Users can now rename a project by clicking on the project name in the header bar from within a project. Image Targets Now Generated at Runtime Image Targets are now generated at runtime, and no longer at design time. Note: If you’re u

Vuforia Studio Project Name Now Available in Metadata Project name is now accessible through scripting in Home.js. Vuforia View Support for Android 14 OS Android 14 OS is now supported. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

How can we make a 3D Widget on HoloLens visible in front of me every time ?  The goal here is to get a some UI containing 3D Widgets (3dButtons , 3dImages , 3d Labels and 3d Models) in front of current HoloLens view. For example after saying "show UI" the UI elements should appear in front view e.g. distance of 1,5 meters. Example:   In the Tech Tip article "How to create a custom button pressable on HoloLens device?" is shown how to create a custom UI button. Now  based on the example of this project   the functionality will be extended by adding the possibility for dynamic display of the UI elements in front of the current view. To be able to move the elements in front of us we need to calculated the current view matrix and the inverse matrix  of if.  For this goal we need to prepare some mathemtics function like , matrix inverse calculation, marix multiplication , matrix with vector multiplicaiton, vector product und dot vector product ... etc. W

Vuforia Studio There were no new features or updates for the 9.17.0 version of Vuforia Studio Vuforia View HoloLens: Dynamic bounding box information is now available at runtime iOS: iOS/iPadOS 17 is now supported iOS/iPadOS 15 is no longer supported Experience Service Ability to disable publishing experiences for offline viewing Note: If your Experience Service is hosted by PTC Cloud Services, open a Technical Support case requesting to update the configuration Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Currently in Vuforia Studio is not possible to create a dynamically widgets- on the fly - at runtime to add or to remove widgets. Better to say it is not possible in a supported way. So, the most supported approach which users can use - is to to create everything - different layouts version and to blank and to display them depending on the current inputs. In some cases, it is possible to use a functionality of repeat region to create reports. So, we can use repeater widget (container ) to show a ThingWorx InfoTables. So, the repeater are mostly intended to be linked to services /added in the external data section / which result are InfoTables. The infoTables itself are handled as JSON object in the AngularJS environment in Vofria Studio. Therefore, we can try to provide directly a data as global variable in Studio or we can read it via the http service from a project directory (e.g. upload). So the follow example will read a json file “ItemList.json"  from the upload&nb

Vuforia Studio New Duplicate action available for views in an experience Usability and UI improvements to the New Project window Improvements to Image Target widget source validation to help users upload images that will result in reliable targets Support for ThingWorx 9.4 Vuforia View Bounding box and location information can now be generated for any model at runtime (iOS and Android) As of March 2024, you will no longer be able to install Vuforia View on devices running iOS 14. Experience Service New Project Access screen allows administrators to disable publishing projects with public access in Vuforia Studio Note: If your Experience Service is hosted by PTC Cloud Services, open a Technical Support case requesting to update the configuration Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

This is the third JavaScript quark in the series: it can be used to change a widget color by cycling through a given array of colors. You can find the second quark here.   Here's the code to copy & paste to your Home.js:   $scope.cycleColors = function(widget, colors, time, interval) {  let w = (widget.color !== undefined ? widget : $scope.view.wdg[widget]);  if (!w || w.color === undefined) { throw "Cannot color-cycle this widget"; }  let originalColor = w.color;  w.color = colors[0];  w.visible = true;  w.opacity = 1;    let nSteps = Math.ceil(Math.floor(time/interval) / colors.length) * colors.length;  return $interval(iterationCount => w.color = iterationCount === nSteps ? originalColor : colors[iterationCount % colors.length], interval, nSteps);} This JavaScript quark will make the widget color cycle through the colors provided in the colors array. The effect will last time milliseconds, and each color cha

Vuforia Studio Improved messaging for Advanced Model Target status when publishing a project Vuforia View A new Show Tracking Status option is available from the menu within an experience. Possible statuses include: TRACKING IS STABLE TRACKING IS UNSTABLE REDUCE MOTION IMPROVE LIGHTING OBJECT OUT OF VIEW Experience Service (on-premises) There were no new features or updates for the 9.15.0 version of the Experience Service. Bug Fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Vuforia Studio Bounding box and location information is now available in CAD metadata New RealWear Nav 520 option available in the custom canvas size drop-down list on the 2D canvas JavaScript properties now documented for all widgets Vuforia View Vuforia View is no longer supported on the following devices: Surface Pro 7 Surface Pro 6 Surface Pro 5th Gen (2017) Surface Pro 4 Surface Book Surface Go Surface Go2 Vuzix M400 Smart Glasses You may still be able to use Vuforia View to consume published experiences on these devices, but Technical Support will no longer be available. You should also expect that Vuforia View may stop working correctly on these devices after September 2023.Then, at the end of the year (2023), the following will happen for Windows and Vuzix devices: Vuforia View will be removed from the Windows Store. Vuforia View will be removed from Vuzix App Store. No updated versions of Vuforia View for Windows will be available on the PTC Software Downloads site; on

Vuforia Studio New and improved Model Target widget allows more advanced configurations of Model Targets  including: Automatic coloring of Model Targets Simplification when a model is too complex (for Advanced Views) Ability to create multiple Advanced Model Targets You can now use a command prompt shortcut to configure Vuforia Studio to run over HTTPS Vuforia View RealWear Navigator 520 devices are now supported Experience Service (On-premises) Access to Vuforia Cloud Services to generate Advanced Model Targets is now available for on-premises installations of the Experience Service. For more information, see Request Advanced Model Target Generation. For more information about installing and deploying an Experience Service on-premises, see the Experience Service Help Center. Bug fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

As part of the Vuforia Studio 9.13.0 release, a new way to create and configure model targets is now available!    The updated Model Target widget allows users more configuration options within Vuforia Studio to ensure optimal tracking of their models. Advanced configuration options include:   Automatic coloring of Model Targets Simplification when model is too complex (Advanced Views only) Multiple Advanced Guide Views For additional information on these new options, see our Configure a Model Target Help Center topic.

Vuforia Studio (Windows only) The ssl-settings.json file has been moved to the ProgramData directory for streamlined SCCM deployment.Note: This only applies to Vuforia Studio run over HTTPS. A new shortcut to configure HTTPS locally for Vuforia Studio is now available. For more information, see Vuforia Studio run over HTTPS. Vuforia View An updated version of Vuforia View was not released for 9.12.0. Experience Service There are no new features or updates for the 9.12.0 version of the Experience Service. Bug fixes See Bug Fixes for additional information on bugs resolved in this release

Vuforia Studio Changes to Check for Updates functionality—You will no longer be automatically prompted with the Update Available window when a new version of Vuforia Studio is available. Beginning in version 9.11.0, you must manually check for updates by navigating to the Vuforia Studio menu in the upper-right corner, and selecting Check for Updates. Once the Check for Updates window appears, compare Your version with the version that is displayed above the list of new features. For more information, see Update Vuforia Studio to the Latest Version. Windows OS: Vuforia Studio is now available for download from the Microsoft Store (The legacy installer is no longer available on the PTC Software Downloads page). A new app package (appxbundle) installer is now available on the PTC Software Downloads page for installing in a closed network environment. (The legacy restricted installer is no longer available on the PTC Software Downloads page). Mac: The Check for Updates action is now