Release Notes

Improve base station enumeration with SteamVR. Always use base stations with the smallest channel numbers for the rest pose.
Add live streaming to any humanoid avatar in Unity.
Fix for USB device enumeration in Windows.
Fix for Windows runtime file installer.

Improve hybrid tracking with SteamVR. Always center the Shadow skeleton when you create the rest pose.
Improve support for multiple Shadow suits in Unreal Engine.
Add support for StreamVR "Quick Calibrate" to make setup simpler.
Update Unreal Engine plugin to use built in APIs for data streaming.

Improve automatic cleanup for hybrid tracking positional markers. Better handling of tracker occlusion and dropouts.
Improve Shadow Hybrid skeleton to show green markers for hybrid tracker inputs.
Add dark mode support to the Shadow app.
Add Lua command to modify the pose field in the configuration.
Update to Maya 2020 release.
Update to Unreal Engine 4.24 release.
Update C3D exporter with option to exclude "analog" channels.
Fix C3D format for loading analog measurement data in Mokka.

Improve automatic take cleanup for jumping. Compute linear velocity (lv) for the Body and Hips nodes.
Add Shadow Biomech skeleton. Choose this to add a standard marker set for gait analysis to the Shadow data set.
Add web cam recording with takes.
Update to Unreal Engine 4.23 release.
Fix in installer for Windows 10 to use network path for user data.

Improve the C3D file format for compatibility with biomechanics research and analysis software.
Add the body space quaternion (Bq) channel to the Shadow data stream.
Add support for HTC Vive with minimal hardware. Perform set up without two controllers headset.
Update C3D format to include all channels in the take as "analog" measurement data.
Update C3D format to support Z-up coordinate system. For compatibility with Visual 3D and Biomechanics of Bodies (BoB).
Update C3D format to support the ROTATION extension for Visual 3D.

Improve the Calibrate view in the desktop application. Better error reporting.
Update take v3 format to remove zero channels after recording. Prevents extra channels in take stream and in exported data.
Update to remove duplicate timing information from the Shadow data stream.
Fix in Maya plugin to import the mTake format.

Improve hybrid tracking. OpenVR (HTC Vive) and OptiTrack (via Motive) plugins supported.
Improve support for Vive Tracker devices. Allow general purpose streaming to the SDK and take.
Improve support for rigid body tracking from Motive. Allow general purpose streaming to the SDK and take.
Improve Shadow desktop application support on Linux.
Add take v3 format. Read only support for take v2. Dropped support for take v1.
Add configuration v3 format. Includes read support for older formats.
Add JSON-RPC based command interface to the Lua interpreter.
Add guided Calibrate view to the desktop application.
Update configuration file and Lua classes to use a flat list rather than nested tree of nodes.
Update all internal file formats to JSON instead of XML. Read only support for XML formats.
Update Lua scripting interface. All custom classes now print to JSON format by default.
Update to Autodesk 2019 releases for Maya, MotionBuilder, and FBX SDK.
Update to Unreal Engine 4.22 release.
Update to Unity 2018.3 release.
Remove the v1 web based user interface and support.
Remove XML-RPC based command interface to the Lua interpreter.
Remove plugins and code that are open source or available online from the installer.
Fix in MotionBuilder plugin live streaming. Discard old samples if the MotionBuilder UI frame rate slows down too much.
Fix to run Motion Service embedded in the desktop application on all platforms.