Location AR’s World Mesh has been updated to World Mesh 2.0. With World Mesh 2.0, Lens Developers can take advantage of significantly improved accuracy, support, and precision of creating world meshes. 

The Real-Time Neural Rendering ML Model enables building your AR assets from 2D images taken from your phone. With full compatibility for Snap ML, this model can be run on devices in real time. 

Lens Developers can also take advantage of a new Ray tracing feature: Diffuse Indirect Lighting.  Diffuse Indirect lighting acts as a step towards Global Illumination, by providing a level of realism of how colors and lights can bleed and glow onto other objects. 

The Volumetric Cloud Template showcases how to render realistic clouds utilizing a ray marching technique. Volumetric Cloud materials have been highly optimized to run smoothly during run-time, letting Lens Developers take advantage of the feature in new AR experiences.

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Along with Raytracing’s new Diffusion Indirect lighting feature, a few improvements have been made to assist in the creation of Raytraced powered Lenses:

Improved 3D Hand Tracking 

Fixed issue with 'AR custom location' template

Fixed an issue where VFX with a high particle count would throw a script error.

Fixed the problem where VFX assigned to a layer not rendered by a camera

Fixed issue when shader compilation failed on VFX with Advanced Graphics Mode

Fixed the inability to install the Old CC from the Asset library.

Addressed the problem where Point Size from Overlay Camera reported the wrong value when targeting Live Target.

Fixed the crash that occurred when opening a project if a function was set as a graph shader parameter.

Fixed issue when LS app can crash when user is switching to different device simulation settings

Fixed issue when user received multiple dialogs on import of 3d models

Fixed the crash that occurred when trying to open a project with VFX containing a float parameter for the target position property of various AddForce subgraphs.

Addressed the issue where the project generated multiple cross compiler errors even after removing resources and optimizing the project.

Fixed the problem where not all effects were shown in the preview after successful shaders update.

Resolved the issues related to the Content Editor Tools template, including no shaders update and long project closing times.

Fixed the custom code node, which previously lacked the option to get UVs past 1.

Resolved the crash that occurred after opening a project with frequent printing.

Fixed issue with when Crop Texture become empty

Addressed the increase in processing time for ML Models.

Fixed the issue where LS froze upon project opening.

Resolved the problem where the world tracking preview was broken in the Preview panel.