1.8.3

Highlights

• Restored support for several VR video sites that started blocking Wolvic (non-Meta browsers in general)
• High fidelity positioning and rotation of controllers
• Fixed a few crashes in bookmarks pane and refresh rate selection code
• Tons of little UI adjustments and enhancements
• Find in page in Chromium version
• New environments

Web Content

• Make VR videos available in some sites. They recently started to filter out Wolvic so we had to spoof the user agent to pretend to be another VR browser.

UI Improvements

• Set the pressed status for the Settings button in the tray when clicked
• Added a delay when switching windows in hover-to-focus mode to avoid glitches
• Use the orientation of the focused controller to move windows
• Show a warning when disabling hand tracking to notify users that it will be reset on next launch
• Keyboard layout update, larger buttons for voice and close actions and theming improvements
• Horizontal scrolling behaviour now matches vertical's
• Do not show "Find in Page" option for the start page
• Added 4 new environments
• Updated translations: gl, ru, fr, es, uk, pt...

Usability

• Drastically improved the accuracy of controllers position, they almost completely match their real world position
• Revamped the controllers orientation code, they properly rotate now around their rotation axis (whatever it is) instead of always rotating around the bottom

Privacy & Security

• Show the Enhanced Tracking Protection widget when clicking on the Advanced button
• Harness the refresh rate selection code to prevent crashes with some runtimes

Voice Search

• Improved stability of voice recognition by adding extra status checks
• Simplified VoiceSearchWidget implementation. Also improved responses to state changes

Stability

• Fixed a crash in bookmarks view caused by bookmarks with no title

Pico

• Fixed WebXR gamma (content too bright) in Pico devices by adding a specific shader for the blitter

Other

• Moved Openxr layer support detection to the backend avoiding hardcoding it in the app
• Improvements and fixes for the build system
• Added new manifest permission strings for hand tracking for Meta's HorizonOS