See What's in Vū Studio's May Release

The May 2026 release brings Windows media system integration for in-app music control, native support for advancing PPTX slides as Experiences, a significant expansion of ND2 file viewer capabilities, and a broad set of bug fixes across lighting, PPTX rendering, and OS stability.

Highlights

Windows Media Integration

Vū Studio now integrates with the Windows media system, giving you playback controls for any audio playing on the connected device — directly within Vū Studio. Play, pause, skip tracks, and adjust volume without leaving the app, regardless of what is playing the audio. This works with any music or media playback on Windows, including Spotify, YouTube, and other media players. (VU-2419)

PPTX Presentations as Experiences

PPTX files can now be played back as native Vū Studio Experiences with support for advancing slides, bringing PPTX presentation content into the standard Experience playback workflow. (VU-2280)

Improvements

• Pop-up windows triggered within an OS webview now open as browser windows above the OS rather than within the embedded view. (VU-2693)
• Users can now delete all personal content older than a specified date directly from the account storage page. Team administrators can configure automatic deletion rules by content age for individual and team content. (VU-2385, VU-2386, VU-2387, VU-2703)
• Native Windows applications can now be shared to connected displays without requiring screen sharing. (VU-807)
• ND2 file viewer: Annotations added in 3D space now store their volume position and rotation, preserving annotation placement when returning to a file. (VU-2680, VU-2699)
• ND2 file viewer: A unit cube orientation indicator has been added to the top-right corner of the 3D view, allowing one-click snapping to standard camera angles. (VU-2698)
• ND2 file viewer: A per-channel gamma slider is now available for fine-tuning contrast in individual channels. (VU-2697)
• ND2 file viewer: Individual slices can now be exported as image snapshots directly from the viewer. (VU-2668)
• ND2 file viewer: Depth slicing through selected voxel channels is now supported, enabling precise volume inspection. (VU-2665)
• ND2 file viewer: Per-channel cropping groups are now available for isolating specific channel regions during analysis. (VU-2664)
• ND2 file viewer: High-intensity intersections between channels can now be visualized, making co-localization analysis more accessible. (VU-2663)

Fixes

• Present mode auto-advance in some cases throws an error when a Scene contains the same asset placed more than once. (VU-2707)
• Animated assets can occasionally fail to render when configured as a splash screen background. (VU-2691)
• Under certain circumstances, a PNG asset is incorrectly resized and repositioned when casting a Scene that uses an animation as the background layer. (VU-2649)
• Converting an image asset to a 3D asset in some configurations results in a black screen that blocks further asset selection until the page is refreshed. (VU-2646)
• The PPTX renderer now handles SVG assets, hidden assets, and video bookmarks that may not render correctly in certain presentations. (VU-2647)
• Additional rendering differences between PowerPoint and Vū Studio have been corrected in the PPTX renderer for improved visual fidelity. (VU-2709)
• Certain animated elements and text formatting in PPTX files sometimes do not render as expected in Vū Studio. (VU-2692)
• PPTX slides containing table elements can display an unexpected grey background in some configurations. (VU-2704)
• The "Show in Library" button for Experiences created from dynamic assets sometimes redirects to a 400 error. (VU-2639)
• The node server may throw an error on certain wall configurations when connecting to the WebSocket layer. (VU-2706)
• Lighting colors on an asset can occasionally revert to the previous asset's color settings after switching assets. (VU-2696)
• Lighting configuration applied to one asset sometimes carries over to a newly cast asset in certain environments, overriding its default settings. (VU-2679)
• Lighting changes applied after casting an asset are occasionally lost after a page refresh and do not reapply until the asset is re-cast. (VU-2576)
• When an asset or Scene contains both RGB and HSI lights, RGB light adjustments may not affect the master light color in some configurations. (VU-2594)
• Modifying the temperature of an HSI light updates the individual light's color but sometimes does not update the master light display. (VU-2643)
• The lighting temperature slider does not respond correctly in certain configurations. (VU-2534)
• Light color values may not display consistently in some environments. (VU-2516)
• Banding artifacts can occasionally appear on the sides of 3D volume renders. (VU-2657)
• The minimum scale clamp in OS has been adjusted for consistency with Vū Studio behavior. (VU-2655)
• Marketplace purchase events were not being tracked correctly in certain environments following a provider migration. (VU-2682)
• EXE assets may fail to load and generate errors in certain runtime environments. (VU-2708)
• NDI feeds with audio may result in an operating system error under certain configurations. (VU-2701)
• Advanced color control sliders in some cases do not respond to input on image and video assets. (VU-2402)

Read the full release notes: HERE