Vū Studio Release — February 25, 2026
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This release delivers architectural improvements, expanded lighting and video capabilities, player stability improvements, and extensive UI and workflow fixes across Vū Studio.
Highlights
- Experience Datatype Refactor — Refactored the Experience data structure to improve long-term maintainability, consistency, and stability across Studio workflows (VU-2147)
- Video loop/close behavior — Added configurable video end behaviors — loop or close the experience when a video ends (VU-2121)
- RGB lighting support — Introduced full RGB support for lighting controls and pixel mapping (VU-2207, VU-2318)
- Scene-level lighting & camera controls — Added scene-level control flexibility for lighting and cameras (VU-2325)
- Light Groups — Create and manage light groups for improved lighting organization (VU-1921)
- Team-wide Player Groups — Player groups can now be shared with the entire team (VU-2180)
- Shared Themes for Player Groups — Themes applied to shared player groups are accessible by any team member (VU-2181)
- Watchdog service — Implemented the helper watchdog service for improved system health monitoring (VU-2013)
- WebRTC stats — Added WebRTC stats link to settings page for diagnostics (VU-2346)
Improvements
- Allow team admins to edit wall settings (VU-1112)
- Prevent browser throttling/sleep from impacting web player connections (VU-1395)
- Improve portrait mode orientation behavior in OS and display picker (VU-2144)
- Switch WebView audio to native Unity Audio Source (VU-2267)
- Improve connection ID length and persistence (VU-2290)
- Add volume slider to tools menu in Experiences (VU-2347)
Fixes
- Connecting to all players on dashboard not connecting all players (VU-2148)
- Camera streaming from OS fixed (VU-2293)
- Experiences with assets not working on web player (VU-2204)
- Video thumbnails not showing on playback dashboard (VU-2254)
- Multiple experiences stuck in launching state (VU-2289)
- RED camera properties reverting after adjustment (VU-2273)
- Persistent audio when volume set to 0 on web player (VU-2316)
- RGB sliders fixed at 0 under certain light creation flows (VU-2331)
- Master light resets to 0% when switching player profiles (VU-2341)
- Lock button not preventing layer movement (VU-2354)
- Pixel map data resets on page reload (VU-2361)
- OS command listener exception blocking further commands (VU-2349)
- Meeting link no longer requires manual https:// entry (VU-2333)
- And 30+ additional fixes — see full release notes for details