v1.5.0

Multiview extension, Spatial computing UIs, Mixed Reality features, Quest 3 support and much more!

Check out the new examples: Anchors, World Meshing and Hand Grab Controls

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Bug fixes

• Use renderer.useLegacyLights instead of the deprecated renderer.physicallyCorrectLights in three r150, but keep the physicallyCorrectLights property name for the renderer system for backward compatibility (fix #5293)
• Fix hand-controls animations (#5300)
• Fix outdated link in error message (#5313) (fix #5275) (@kolson25)
• Fix visibility of controller in model-viewer example (#5317) (@DougReeder)
• Fix typo in phong shader properties (#5334) (@nightgryphon)
• Adapt shaders to new THREE API (#5328) (@nightgryphon)
• Traverse meshes instead of using a hardcoded index (#5340) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Fix examples miscellaneous errors (#5343) (@mrxz)
• Fix back plane resizing when text component changes (#5357) (fix #2764) (@brycethomas)
• Fix switching back and forth from hands to controller input (fix #5373) (@floe, @dmarcos)

Enhancements

• Add hand-tracking-grab-controls component to make any entity manipulable with hands (@dmarcos)
• Add support for WebXR Mesh and Planes Module (real-world-meshing component) (@dmarcos)
• Add support for WebXR Anchors Module (anchored component) (@dmarcos)
• Add support OVR_multiview extension (@felixtrz)
• Add support for Quest 3 controllers (@dmarcos, @felixtrz)
• New obb-collider implementing oriented bounding box colliders (@dmarcos)
• Improve hand-trackin-controls pinch logic (@dmarcos)
• Add anisotropy option to material and renderer (#5309) (@mrxz)
• Linter improvements (#5342) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Add loopStart and loopEnd properties to sound component to play loops (#5364) (@JonathannJacobs)
• Update to THREE r158 (@felixtrz, @dmarcos) (fix #5369)
• Improve sorting / rendering order (#5332) (@diarmidmackenzie, @mrxz)
• Redesign enter immersive mode UI (@vincentfretin, @msub2, @diarmidmackenzie, @thedart76, @dmarcos)
• Replace the use of getJointPose with fillPoses and fillJointRadii in hand-tracking-controls to avoid memory allocations (#5298) (@mrs)
• Handle conversion from sRGB to Linear-sRGB implicitly instead of calling applyColorCorrection (#5210) (@mrxz, @vincentfretin)
• Add Pico 4 headset controllers support (#5281) (@felixtrz)
• Update URL to basis encoder (#5329) (@vincentfretin)
• Add Spatial Computing UI example (#7ea40c13) (@dmarcos)
• Remove workaround for an old Chrome bug in the context of a-assets (#5335) (@mrxz)
• Unit tests improvements (@mrxz, @dmarcos)
• Consolidate references to the CDN URL in a global variable (#5333) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Docs improvements (@luc122c, @donmccurdy, @turbotimon, @lainshiHenry, @Rhys-Alexander, @vincentfretin, @dmarcos)

Deprecations

• vr-mode-ui component renamed to xr-mode-ui (@dmarcos)
• GearVR and Daydream support (@vincentfretin, @dmarcos)