• Add package-lock.json for consistency when generating builds (#5693) (@vincentfretin)
• hand-tracking-controls components emits controllermodelready for consistency with other input controls components (#5685) (@coderofsalvation)
• Fix inspector when post-processing is enabled (#5684) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix Next.js skipping A-Frame CSS styles (#5682) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix ar-hit-test component. Initialize on enter-vr event instead of sessionstart (#5680) (@vincentfretin)
• Docs and examples improvements (@jgbarah, @vincentfretin, @diarmidmackenzie, @dmarcos)

Post-processing, ES modules and importmap, WebGPU support, Logitec MX Ink integration and more.

• Update to THREE r173 (@dmarcos)
• Import maps support and replacement of CommonJS with ES Modules (@mrxz, @vincentfretin)
• Experimental post-processing support. It works both in regular and immersive modes (@enzofrancescaHM, @mrxz, @enzofrancescaHM)
• Support for Logitech MX Ink tracked pen (@dmarcos)
• Initial WebGPU support (@vincentfretin)

• Remove unused width and height properties from flat and standard shaders (#5647) (@mrxz)
• Relax the clientWidth constraint in the controls tests. Fix tests on Ubuntu (#5641) (@@enzofrancescaHM)
• Check if XRSession exists before attaching inputsourcechange listener (#5631) (@mrxz)
• Don't apply anchor scale (only position and rotation) to an anchored entity (#5633) (@mrxz)
• Wait until referenceSpace is available befor initializing compositor layers (#5626) (@vincentfretin)
• Remove raycaster-closest-entity-changed listener when removing the cursor component (#5625) (@vincentfretin)
• Handle cursor rayOrigin updates and rayOrigin: mouse when component attached to an entity and not a-scene (fix #4759) (#4760) (@kylebakerio)
• Fix light shadow frustum visualization via CameraHelper (fix #5098) (#5099) (@IanSweeneyAC, @dmarcos)
• Prevent loading cubemap for a probe light when envMap is not set (fix #5610) (#5611) (@mrxz)
• Prevent redundant pinchstarted events on a hand tracking pinch gesture (#5609) (@mrxz)
• Improve cursor component xrselect logic. Handle rayOrigin property changes and account for camera rigs when calculating the raycaster direction (#5606) (@mrxz, @vincentfretin)
• Fix Apple Vision Pro detection logic to prevent false positives on iPad and iPhone (fix #5605) (#5607) (@vincentfretin)
• Remove fullscreen CSS styles from the document element when a-scene is disconnected (#5602) (@gunhaxxor)
• Adjust light intensity defaults and examples to account for WebGLRenderer.useLegacyLights deprecation in THREE r165 (#8813d3d2) (@dmarcos)
• Fix model visibility logic of tracked hands and controllers when there are input switches (e.g hands to controllers) (#fa0cc748) (@dmarcos)
• Prevent a-loader-title div (A-Frame created HTML element) to be serialized (#5574) (@vincentfretin)
• Disable magic window mode in Vision Pro that is only suitable for handheld mobile devices (#5560) (@dmarcos)
• Don't bubble <a-asset-item> error event that was preventing some tests to execute (#5548) (@mrxz)
• Don't stringify properties with undefined values to prevent flushToDOM to produce properties with the undefined string (#5549) (@mrxz)
• Fix serialization / stringification of asset type properties. When an HTML element they got exported incorrectly as e.g [object HTMLImageElement] (#5544) (@mrxz, @vincentfretin)
• Refresh raycasted objects only when the objects raycaster component property changes. Prevent unnecessary costly updates (#5542) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix issue when using <a-cubemap> as texture component envMap (@Omegahed , @mrxz)
• Fix incorrect texture reference counting, potentially leading to exceptions upon disposal of the texture (#5529) (@mrxz)
• Eliminate incorrect "unknown property" warnings from dynamic schema components (#5526) (@mrxz)

• Bump to THREE to r174 (@dmarcos)
• Post-processing experimental support (#5648) (@enzofrancescaHM, @CodyJasonBennett, @mrxz, @cabanier, @vincentfretin, @dmarcos)
• ES Modules and importmap support (#5632, #5640) (@mrxz, @vincentfretin)
• Support for WebGPURenderer and TSL (#5655) (@vincentfretin)
• Logitech MX Ink integration (@dmarcos)
• Update Draco decoder to 1.5.7 (#5523) (@vincentfretin)
• Remove process/browser polyfill in tests (#5643) (@vincentfretin)
• Improve build and test process (@vincentfretin)
• ar-hit-test uses tracked controller if available instead of head orientation (fix #5315) (#5308) (@DougReeder)
• Allows setting the distance within which the preview image of the link component is shown (#4425) (@DougReeder)
• Animate position, rotation and scale on the THREE.Object3D directly without calling setAttribute (#4f711a4efab) (@dmarcos)
• Update shelljs version (#5497) (@arpu)
• Ability to enable/disable enterVR and exitVR shortcuts independently (#5512) (@mrxz)
• Improve Pico headsets controller support on third-party browsers such as Wolvic (#5534) (@Elettrotecnica)
• Consolidate tracked-controls-webxr logic into tracked-controls. Separation no longer needed since WebVR support deprecation (#627698d4) (@dmarcos)
• Move WebXR controller detection to inputsourceschange event from a polling logic (#fd904348) (@dmarcos)
• Update Webpack and related build dependencies (#5480) (@vincentfretin)
• Add CodeQL scanning with one non-default query for scanning GitHub Actions (#5554) (@JarLob)
• Add AgX and neutral to the list of tone mapping options in the renderer component (#5551) (@vincentfretin)
• Docs improvements (@mrxz, @dmarcos, @Srile, @Control-C, @addy1997, @TomoyaKuroda, @vincentfretin, @jzhangdev, @Utopiah, @nikolas, @jadegamesuk, @diarmidmackenzie, @ogreenaway, @kewalkishang, @jinglechen2287)

• Remove physicallyCorrectLights since useLegacyLights is no longer supported by THREE.WebGLRenderer since THREE r165 (#0123f53749) (@dmarcos)
• Rename oculus-touch-controls to meta-touch-controls to reflect current branding. meta-touch-controls kept around for backwards compatibility (#d3be3d2f) (@dmarcos)
• Remove the now obsolete WebVR support in favor of WebXR (#5451) (@mrxz)
• Deprecate isGearVR and isOculusGo functions (#5635) (@vincentfretin)

Tons of bug fixes. Memory management and performance improvements. API to control tick / tock execution order.

• Update wrist object position and rotation only when joint poses are available (#5438) (@mrxz)
• Fix issue when checking schema properties when a schema changes (#5426) (@mrxz)
• Set correct default value for scene.background when the background component is removed (#5417) (@mrxz)
• Fix fog removal from scene (#5418) (@mrxz)
• Fix Chrome non-passive violation warnings for touchmove and touchstart event handlers (#5511) (@mrxz, @mitchallen)
• Fix bug when loading models on child entities of controllers (#5415) (@mrxz)
• Fix bug in handling processSound callback when sound hadn't loaded yet (#5414) (@mrxz)
• Fix misspelled variable names after using a spell checker (#5462) (@mrxz)
• Fix problem when a shader that declares itself as glsl3 has its version ignored (bbe74f52) (@dmarcos)
• Fix problem when checking for duplicate names of property types (#5475) (@mrxz)
• Fix problem when adding children entities to a hand-tracking-controls entity before the hand model has loaded (12d550c6) (@dmarcos)
• Hide hand-tracking-controls entity when there's no hand tracking available (dbdb9dac) (@dmarcos)
• Fix issues when applying mixins to primitives (#5483) (@mrxz)
• Fix issue when a component is not removed from the DOM via mixin removal / update (#5492) (@mrxz)
• Fix timing issue when initializing XR Layers (#5489) (@zjm-meta)
• Fix problem where scene doesn't wait / timeout on a-asset-items (#5491) (@mrxz)
• Fix bug when using setAttribute on a-scene if a system has not yet initialized (#5482) (@mrxz)
• Fix broken parser cache of getComponentPropertyPath (#5467) (@mrxz)
• Fix issue when shadowMaps are always enabled. Make sure it's only enabled when there's a shadow component present (#5399) (@mrxz)
• Fix issue when children of an entity with hand-tracking-controls don't follow the hand (874fced2) (@dmarcos)
• Fix ES modules support on node (#5522) (@vincentfretin)
• Make rotation axis order is consistent when using setAttribute and modifying object3D directly (#5513) (@mrxz)
• Fix issue when calculating the size of the bounding box of an obb-collider (5da7166e) (@dmarcos)
• Fix issue when the el.hasLoaded flag can be true but not all components have initialized (924dc00e) (@dmarcos)
• Fix issue when trying to remove a mesh before model was loaded in obj-model component (#5499) (@Elettrotecnica)
• Use renderer.useLegacyLights instead of the deprecated renderer.physicallyCorrectLights in THREE (#5389) (@vincentfretin)
• Set correct default value for glslVersion for non-raw shaders (#5388) (@mrxz)
• Remove "skinning: true" option when instanciating a THREE.MeshStandardMaterial object. Property deprecated in THREE (#5386) (@avdynut)
• Fix issue when tracking an unexisting AR Hitest anchor (@hi-liang, @dmarcos) (bcc4bc2cae2b3) (fix #5314)
• Fix issue when layers are not initialized in AR mode (bb1e7a4e) (@dmarcos)
• Fix issue when removing unexisting light probe after exiting vr mode (#5429) (fix #5384) (@Elettrotecnica)
• Fix issue when removing an obb-collider (957237d) (fix #5385)
• Fix typo when requesting layers on the WebXR requiredFeatures list (f7e56a8f) (@dmarcos)
• Fix issue when trying to animate a non existing button on the controller (da8dc146) (@dmarcos)

• Improve unit tests execution time (#5477) (@mrxz)
• Recycle nextData and previousOldData objects when a component is destroyed preventing memory leaks (#5458) (@mrxz)
• Improve pooling and recycling of internal component objects. Better memory management (#5459) (@mrxz)
• Reduce memory allocations on component update logic (#5474) (@mrxz)
• Improve throttleLeadingAndTrailing implementation to prevent unnecessary allocations (#5476) (@mrxz)

• Introduce before/after component API to control tick / tock execution order (#5478) (@mrxz)
• Bump to THREE r164 (@dmarcos)
• Remove maximum canvas size (#5440) (@mrxz)
• Cache THREE.Source instead of THREE.Textures (#5449) (@mrxz)
• Introduce a sceneOnly flag for components that only apply to the a-scene element (#5465) (@mrxz)
• Switch unit tests from WebVR to WebXR (#5452) (@mrxz)
• Move back debug dependency from fork to upstream (#5508) (@arpu)
• Introduce stencil property in the renderer system (#5509) (@mrxz)
• Improve iPad detection logic to include iPad Pro (#5502) (@Drkjr92)
• Remove unnecessary attribute properties and special handling of is: "attribute" in shader component (#5310) (@mrxz)
• Improve async loading of aframe library and interoperation with ES module (#5481) (@mrxz)
• Improve system warning messages when setting an unknown property (#5463) (@mrxz)
• Use native bind method instead of custom implementation. Performance benefits of custom one no longer exist (#5461) (@mrxz)
• Add Pico4 controllers support to laser-controls component (#5435) (@IamTonio)
• Add hand model opacity to hand-tracking-controls (#5431) (@ehammons11)
• Postpone screenshot component offscreen canvas setup until a screenshot is taken (#5442) (@arpu)
• Update GitHub CI to use node 20.x (#5479) (@vincentfretin)
• Use window.isSecureContext instead of manually checking URL for http/localhost/127.0.0.1 (#5487) (@mrxz)
• Remove deprecated getComputedAttribut method (#5466) (@mrxz)
• Remove unnecessary crossOrigin configuration for THREE loaders (#5416) (@mrxz)
• Add support for navigator.xr.offerSession WebXR spec (#5410) (@cabanier)
• Add support for fog, toneMapping, colorSpace conversion and logarithmicDepthBuffer to the msdf shader used in the text component (#5409) (@mrxz)
• Remove minimum scale value. THREE handles zero scale gracefully (#5404) (@mrxz)
• Add hide-on-enter-vr component analog to hide-on-enter-ar (9e644def) (@dmarcos)
• Remove iOS 10 specific HLS workaround (#5450) (@mrxz)
• Remove outdated polyfills that were needed just for IE11 (#5448) (@mrxz)
• Docs improvements (@diarmidmackenzie, @Samu01Tech, @thepelkus-too, @Omegahed, stefanhuber, @ctrlw, @vincentfretin, @jgbarah)

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Bug fixes

• Use renderer.physicallyCorrectLights instead of the now deprecated renderer.useLegacyLights (fix #5293) (@mrx)
• 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)

Bug fixes

• Fix issue when Quest 2 touch buttons are pressed before model has loaded (#5212, #5220) (@vincentfretin @mikemainguy)
• Fix orientation of hand tracking models (fix #4848) (@DougReeder)
• Fix problem with where image load quickly before the onload listener is attached. Manifests in particular for browser cached images (fix #5251) (@tomfelder94)
• Fix loading order when A-Frame is used along defer and modules script tags (fix #5228) (@wmurphyrd)
• Fix raycaster visual appearance when origin is not 0,0,0 (fix https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/issues/4882) (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/4884) (@Clicky02)
• Fix problem when adding a single property component via mixin (#5273) (@kfarr @dmarcos)
• Fix exception when trying to reference this pointer inside callback. (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/5221) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Change vertexColors property name to vertexColorsEnabled and make it a boolean to match THREE API (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/5250) (@diarmidmackenzie)

Enhancements

• Add WebXR unit tests (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/5227) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Expose low / high refresh rates options for WebXR devices (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/5217) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Docs improvements (@Srile @DougReeder @foobar404 @stefan-langenmaier @vincentfretin @diarmidmackenzie @dmarcos)

Bug fixes

• Fix error when exiting immersive mode (fix https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/issues/5137)(https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/pull/5198) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix issue reentering immersive mode when using compositor layers (fix #5197) (https://github.com/supermedium/three.js/pull/9) (@vincentfretin)

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Major Changes

• Move A-Frame to Custom Elements V1 API from the now deprecated Custom Elements V0 (fix #4262) (#5136) (@dmarcos)
• Move build system from Browserify to Webpack adding support for ESM (#5116) (@vincentfretin)
• Update to THREE r147 (@dmarcos @AdaRoseCannon @vincentfretin)

Deprecations

• Cardboard mode is now disabled by default as a first step towards deprecation. Magic window is now the fallback on mobile when native WebXR API is not available (fix #4814) (@dmarcos)

Enhancements

• Add support for Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers (fix #5138) (#5139) (@felixtrz @cabanier @dmarcos)
• Replace targetRaySpace with `gripSpace to position WebXR tracked controllers (#88e8db12) (@felixtrz @dmarcos)
• Add support for KTX2 texture compression in gltf-model component (#5101) (@jameskane05)
• Add a default for Draco decoder URL for the gltf model component (#5156) (@kfarr)
• Hide fullscreen button in desktop mode on iPad. Safari doesn't seem to support fullscreen mode. (fix #4841) (#5191)
• Detach inactive pool entities from THREE Scene avoiding unnecessary matrix updates and raycaster checks / hits (#5188) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Add support for WebXR foveation level. Only WebVR API was previously supported (fix #5108) (#5110) (@mrxz)
• Events emitted on a cursor entity also pass original MouseEvent and TouchEvent events when applies.
• Update unit test stack and fix test suite (#5091) (@vincentfretin)
• Display fullscreen button when AR / VR mode are not available (#ce23027d) (@dmarcos)
• Add xrselect option to rayOrigin property in cursor component so it can be used in a WebXR AR context (#5065) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• tracked-controls-webxr reference space is now configurable (#5040) (@msub2)
• New light component property to enable directional lights to track objects and update shadows automatically (#5025) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• New toneMapped property on renderer system. Flat materials can now opt out of tone mapping to look like light emitting surfaces. (#5029) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Update hand tracking model (fix #5185) (@dmarcos @vincentfretin)
• Factor out and document throttleLeadingAndTrailing (#5151) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Docs improvements (@nikolas @dirkk0 @JGrotex @Kershawj @juunini @andrejsmelnikovs @csxiaoyaojianxian @Kirshach @diarmidmackenzie @Chabloz @vincentfretin @karunstha @janarthnk @Utopiah @daniel-schroeder-dev @Descent098 @oroju1)

Bug fixes

• Fix triggerchanged event not firing with Oculus Quest 2 controllers (#5149) (@msub2)
• Fix issue of loading screen displayed indefinitely (#5033) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Remove duplicated update shader logic (#6858ed66) (@dmarcos)
• Fix ray positioning for Oculus Quest 2 controllers (#5141) (@felixtrz)
• Fix reflection component removal (#5125) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix Quest 1 controller ray positioning (fix #5183) (#5190) (@vincentfretin)
• Set default dev port to 8080. Oculus OS / Browser now block port 9000 and it's no longer usable (#0f508ad2) (@dmarcos)
• Fix Oculus Quest 2 controller button animation and highlights (fix #5067) (#5103) (@kylebakerio)
• Stop render loop when a-scene is removed from the DOM (#5112) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix Github CI (#5092) (@vincentfretin)
• Don't emit granted events if DeviceOrientationEvent permission is not granted (#5079) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Fix removal of components with the name pattern component-name__sufix. Used on multiple instances of a single component (fix #5080) (#5081) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Exclude a-mixins when camera system tries to retrieve camera entities (fix #5023) (@mattrossman)
• Reset wasd-controls velocity when axis properties change (#5050) (@vulture-boy)
• Match screenshot component and scene encoding (#5157) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Fix VR/AR buttons positioning in embedded mode (fix #5158) (@dmarcos)
• Remove examples warning messages (fix #5184) (@dmarcos @vincentfretin)

WebXR immersive session and hand tracking fixes!

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Major Changes

• Update to THREE r137 (@dmarcos)

Fixes

• Don't try to use hit test in VR. API only available in AR mode (#5005) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Fix canvas size calculation on embedded mode (fix #4911) (@s-light)
• Fix reference space for WebXR Layers (#4991)
• Fix problem when material map doesn't reflect the offset and repeat properties set via setAttribute (#4985) (@diarmidmackenzie @arturitu)
• More robust componentchanged event. We were skipping the last component state transition event during a component change burst if last modification happens within throttle interval. (fix #4972) (@diarmidmackenzie @dmarcos)
• Emit mouseenter, mouseleave, click cursor events component when order of intersected entities changes (fix #4978) (@diarmidmackenzie @dmarcos)
• Prevent render loop to start before the camera is ready (#4967) (@wtodd1)
• Fix mouse based cursor entity intersection when used with ortographic camera (#4935) (@kfarr)
• Fix wrapping on distortion maps (#4932) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Remove checks to prompt the user to switch to mobile mode on mobile browsers disguised as desktop (e.g: iPad) Browsers now ship with DeviceOrientationEvent API enabled. (fix #4798) (@PlumCantaloupe @dmarcos)
• Adds support for glTF models compressed with EXT_meshopt_compression (#4910) (@donmccurdy)
• Add missing dependency to fix 360 image gallery example fade animation (#4896) (@vincentmi)
• Fix hand model to accommodate changes in the hand tracking API implementation (66e0c624) (@dmarcos)
• Fix hit-test logic on model-viewer example (db633024) (@dmarcos)
• Fix SDF text shader for WebGL1 devices (fix #4827) (@Dirk-27)
• Replace SphericalReflectionMapping (now deprecated in THREE) with EquirectangularReflectionMapping (fix #4818) ( @diarmidmackenzie)
• Automatic generation of environment map (#4797) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Fix copy in device orientation permission dialog (#4794) (@antoninklopp)

Enhancements

• Add phong shader to material component (#5001) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Allow newer npm version in package.json (#4870) (@cwadrupldijjit)
• Add support for AR hit-test for Augmented Reality headsets and handsets (#4892) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Add some default styling to WebXR DOM-Overlay (#4901) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Add some default styling to DOM-Overlay (#4901) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Integrate WebXR background lighting estimation API and environment maps for AR scenes (#4890) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Use THREE.Cache API with a-assets.js (#4864) (@takahirox)
• Add Reverb G2 Support (#4845) (@zach-capalbo)
• Remove workaround to match Vive profile id with the one returned by Chrome. Chrome is now reporting the id matching the official WebXR profile (fix #4846) (@juliusikkala, @dmarcos)
• Replace live-server by five-server (#4836) (@yandeu)
• Add sRGB encoding to perspective screenshot (#4822) (@kfarr)
• Add registerShader texture example (#4795) (@mordof)
• Docs improvements (@epic-developer @jacob-willden @barthy-koeln @vincentfretin @RobinMglsk @a0m0rajab @kfarr @technobotanist @cao-jacky @schmelto @jlecordier @oneWaveAdrian @danbuckland @diarmidmackenzie @dmarcos)

WebXR immersive session and hand tracking fixes!

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Major Changes

• Update to THREE r125 (THREE.Geometry deprecated) (@dmarcos)

Fixes

• Fix hand tracking (https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/commit/97be8159d3769f4602e24ca870b754741f78777b) (@dmarcos)
• Fix immersive mode in Chrome for Android and Microsoft Edge. (THREE r125)
• Don't initialize text mesh until the font has loaded. This prevents the raycaster to intersect prematurely and emit spurious events (#4742) (@quantumalchemy @dmarcos)
• Fix raycaster overriding line default color (#4743) (@GMartigny @dmarcos)
• Make sure enter-vr / exit-vr events are emitted when entering fullscreen (#4740) (@stefanhuber @dmarcos)
• Fix problem with wasd-controls when opening a contextual menu with right click while pressing WASD simultaneously. Camera movement doesn't stop when releasing keys (#4766) (@djoksimo @dmarcos)
• Fix inspector toggle on US international keyboards (#4516) (@svenkonings @dmarcos)
• Make sure generic controls have the lowest precedence when vendor specific ones are also defined (#4784) (@fordacious @dmarcos)
• Fix tests (@dmarcos)

Deprecations

• THREE r125 deprecates THREE.Geometry

Enhancements

• Docs improvements (@tete-github @luics @KovacsGG @dmarcos)

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Major Changes

• Support for WebXR compositor layers API @rcabanier @Artyom17 @dmarcos
• Support for WebXR DOM Overlays support @klausw
• Support for the WebXR immersive navigation proposal @arpu @Artyom17 @dmarcos
• Support for the WebXR hand tracking API proposal (#4650) @machenmusik @dmarcos
• Support for Quest 2 controllers @dmarcos
• Update THREE to r123 @dmarcos

Fixes

• Fix problem with Windows Mixed Reality controller falling to generic model @arpu
• Fix incorrect values returned by the axismove event on Oculus Quest (#4472) @Sujoy-Ghosh
• Fix npm run dist command when running in zsh @benallfree
• Fix wasd-controls easing to prevent sudden position jumps (#4241) @ntamas
• Replace calls to THREE: getWorld* methods that don't know work in immersive mode (#4521) @NNskelly @dmarcos
• Fix undetected controllers when using WebXR API @cabanier @Artyom17
• Fix selectstart / selectend never detected by the cursor component @vincentfretin
• Fix for duplicated cursor component events (#4494) @binzume
• Listen to sessiongranted event only if WebXR is available @dmarcos
• Bump webvr-polyfill to fix magic window mode in iOS 13 (#4554) @jwjordan @dax72 @NomisGnos @dmarcos
• Fix Gear VR controller detection @vincentfretin
• Fix spectator camera mode when entering VR mode (#4666) @broehl @dmarcos
• Fix duplicated cursor component event in VR mode (#4494) @binzume @dmarcos
• Background component can now be removed (#4676) @NVFedorov @dmarcos
• Fix screenshot component (#4685) @bknill @dmarcos
• Add user gesture to start video playback in examples @dmarcos
• Fix white stripe at the bottom of the screen when exiting VR mode in iOS (#4617) @jgutierro @dmarcos
• Fix msdf shader compatibility with WebGL 1 devices (Safari iOS) @dmarcos
• Fix for immersive navigation where the sessiongranted event was not captured @dmarcos
• Move raycaster collision detection from tick to tock to prevent bogus collisions on first frame @dmarcos
• Fix for camera pose not correctly restored when exiting VR mode @dmarcos
• Make sure exit immersive logic runs when exiting AR mode @dmarcos
• Add vr-mode state to <a-scene> when entering immersive mode with WebXR @dmarcos
• Fix Valve Index controller button mappings @dmarcos

Enhancements

• Pass high-performance to the WebGL context to prioritize rendering performance over power consumption @arpu
• Docs improvements @rotoglup @richardjbaker @klausw @dmarcos @kfarr @majecty @AdaRoseCannon @ngokevin @sonnynomnom @lordbron @da4throux @danbuckland @vikohone @pixelistik @vincentfretin @stefanhuber
• Code hygiene @Jamesgt @Shalwaban
• Use new THREE.WebGLRenderer outputEncoding @arpu
• Make msdf shader WebGL 2 compliant @arpu
• Valve Index controller support @zach-capalbo
• Cordova compatibility @benallfree
• Change look-controls hmdEnable property name to magicWindowTrackingEnabled @dmarcos
• Improve hand tracking pinch gesture accuracy @cesmoak (#4691)
• Improve error handling when entering immersive mode (#4660) @federico-camonapp @dmarcos
• Make text of device permission ui component dialogs configurable @dmarcos
• Add look controls mouseEnabled property to enable / disable mouse input @dmarcos
• Add model viewer example with AR / VR and 2D mode compatibility @dmarcos
• Add user interface example that works in VR, desktop and mobile @dmarcos
• Make raycaster component line color configurable @dmarcos
• Add info panel to examples @thedart76 @dmarcos to show instructions, controls and credit authors.