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Version 5.8.1

Released April 8th, 2025
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Camera Kit

If you are a Camera Kit developer please review the Lens Studio compatibility table to ensure your Lens will work in your application.

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The current latest Spectacles Firmware does not support this Lens Studio version. Please download and install the latest supported version of Lens Studio.

System Requirements

Operating System

Windows 10 (64 bit); MacOS 12.0+

Hardware

Minimum of Intel Core i3 2.5Ghz or AMD FX 4300 2.6Ghz or Apple M1 with 8 GB RAM; Intel HD Graphics 5000 / Nvidia GeForce 760 / AMD Radeon HD 5570 or better; screen resolution of 1280x768 or higher

Please make sure that you have the latest driver for your specific graphics card installed

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Release Notes

5.8.1

Spectacles developers: Lens Studio 5.7.2 is compatible with Spectacles firmware 5.60.422. Please do not update to Lens Studio 5.8.x if you are working on a Spectacles project.

Improvements
  • Fixed the Easy Lens button on the news banner.

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when dragging assets in the Asset Browser panel.

  • Fixed a crash during plugin updates

  • Fixed the “Report an Issue” dialog that appeared after successfully closing the app

5.8

Spectacles developers: Lens Studio 5.7.2 is compatible with Spectacles firmware 5.60.422. Please do not update to Lens Studio 5.8.x if you are working on a Spectacles project.

New
  • Markdown support in Lens Studio: You can now add Markdown files as assets in Lens Studio and view them directly through the new Markdown Panel. 

    • To enhance this feature, we’ve also introduced support for attaching Markdown files to Custom Components and Packages. This makes it easier to document your components with clear descriptions and include hosted images to provide richer, more informative documentation.

  • ​​We provide a full Bitmoji 3D rig along with export tools, enabling the creation of advanced Bitmoji avatar animations in Blender.

  • Visualize imported animations in the curve editor.

  • New features in Easy Lens:

    • Head Morph - You can now use Head Morph to transform your head into a 3D generated character, animal, etc.

    • Enhanced Face Events - We improved face events. Now you can ask for head-tilt based experiences or you can ask for Easy Lens to build experiences based on 2d positions of facial features (head center, mouth, left eye, right eye, forehead, nose).

    • Window cutout - You can now generate a window cutout that puts you (and optionally a friend) within transparent sections of the image. The images are generated around the shapes! You also have the option to add existing media from camera roll for 2-shape cutout.

  • Stereo View Index available in both node and Custom Code - For stereo cameras, returns 0 for the left eye view and 1 for the right eye view. Returns 0 for mono cameras.

Improvements
  • API Documentation improvements:

    • You can now see and filter deprecated APIs.

    • There is a new Privacy Restrictions list, which enumerates APIs that can not be used while using certain modules.

  • Sampling Curves in Custom Code node now support different wrap modes.

  • Added an “Invert Mask” option in Body Instance Segmentation Texture.

Fixed
  • Fixed Lens Studio Application stability to handle possible applications crashes.

  • Fixed issue when application crashed due to specific project open flow.

  • Fixed application crash during focusing Custom Code Node.

  • Fixed application crash on project close.

  • Fixed issue with Pull Update of new version of Package from Asset LIbrary.

  • Fixed issue when Shader Graph update was not tracked/rendered.

  • Fixed issue when project duplication outside of Lens Studio application will save references to old project folder.

  • Fixed issue when VFX asset does not work until it was opened in VFX Editor.

  • Fixed crash of application in case of Location asset was deleted from child component.

  • Fix issue of granted plugin permissions not being saved upon application close.