Spatial Reality App Versions
Spatial Reality requires macOS 12.0 (Monterey) or later
1.6.6 | 1.6.5 | 1.6.4 | 1.6.3 | 1.6.2 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.4.0 | 1.3.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.0
Spatial Reality Engine Versions
10.20.2 | 10.19.1 | 10.19.0 | 10.18.0 | 10.17.3 | 10.17.2 | 10.17.1 | 10.16.1 | 10.16.0 | 10.15.16 | 10.15.15 | 10.15.14 | 10.4.13 | 10.4.12 | 10.4.11 | 10.4.6 | 10.2.10 | 10.0.4 | 10.0.0 | 8.27.6 | 8.27.3 | 8.27.1 | 8.25.3 | 8.24.7 | 8.24.2 | 8.20.1 | 8.20.0 | 8.13.2 | 8.13.1 | 8.11.0
Spatial Reality App Release Notes
1.6.6
Fixes
- Added compatibility for MacOS 15 (Sequoia)
- Fixed AES67 input compatibility issues for multichannel devices over 2 channels
- Note: the minimum requirement for MacOS is now 12.0 (Monterey)
1.6.5
Fixes
- Fixes an issues that causes the Reality app to launch and incorrectly prompt you to restore your configuration.
- Fixes an issue that sometimes causes the incorrect details to be shown for a selected network interface.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.6.4
Fixes
- Stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.6.3
Fixes
- Fixes a crash during computer restart.
- Fixes a crash during Reality app upgrade.
- Several important accessibility and stability improvements, additional bug fixes.
1.6.2
Fixes
- Improves the app launch time after signing in.
- Fixes an issue with the status page that causes the computer group leader indicator to not be displayed correctly.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.6.1
Fixes
- Fixes an issue that causes the maximum allowed channels to be set incorrectly for AES67 output.
- Fixes an issue that causes the “Enable streaming” checkbox for AES67 input streaming to not be available.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.6.0
Spatial Reality app v1.6.0 requires macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later.
New Features
- Adds capability to select AES67 streams as the audio output.
Fixes
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.5.0
Before installing Spatial Reality on your playback computer, you must first add a license and assign that license to a computer group. Head to Spatial Central to add your first license, or assign existing licenses to computer groups.
New Features
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Enhances the initial setup flow to allow adding a computer to a computer group with a valid license.
1.4.0
New Features
- Adds a “Repair” option to restore Spatial Reality to a known good state.
Fixes
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Fixes an issue that causes an error to be shown after initiating a Spatial Reality engine update, even though the update succeeds.
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Fixes an issue that mistakenly shows a dialog asking to “Restore configuration”, even though there is a valid configuration for Spatial Reality.
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Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.3.0
New Features
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Adds the ability to create multiple computer groups in a single Site.
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Indicates the Spatial Reality engine version that will be installed during initial setup.
Fixes
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.2.0
New Features
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Adds the ability to install Spatial Reality engine updates on a computer group.
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Adds the ability to view the status of a computer group.
1.1.0
New Features
- Improvements to permissions based on user roles.
Fixes
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
1.0.1
Fixes
- Fixes an issue that prevented the application from fully uninstalling Spatial Reality after setup.
- Ensures that the Device ID shown on the Computer Settings pane is always lowercased.
1.0.0
New Features
- 🎉 first release.
Spatial Reality Engine Release Notes
10.20.2
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
- Additional support for MacOS Sequoia
10.19.1
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.19.0
New Features:
- We’ve added the ability to stream music or other media in your existing Spaces. Now, you can enjoy your favorite tunes or layer them on top of a Spatial Scene. This feature requires Control 1.26.0 or newer.
Fixes:
- Fixes audio artifacts that were audible when the volume on a scene was changed too quickly.
- Fixes to Object Crossfades and Object Picker.
- Fixes an issue where utility spaces would sometimes not start automatically.
- Performance and stability improvements.
10.18.0
New Features:
- Adds support for the Object Picker in Spatial Studio 2.5.0. Now it is easier than ever for Studio users to create organic, non-repeating Scenes for continuous playback.
- Adds support for Object Crossfades, also now available in Spatial Studio 2.5.0. When using the Object Picker Studio users can seamlessly fade between Objects and set the duration and curve type of each fade.
Fixes:
- Addresses an issue that caused the Test Tone functionality in Spatial Control to stop working.
- Fixes a bug that caused AES67 audio input streams to unexpectedly drop out.
- Fixes a bug that caused some Scenes to load and play with no audio output.
- Performance and stability improvements.
10.17.3
- Spatial Reality engine has been updated to support environments where the use of the macOS firewall is required
- Performance and stability improvements
10.17.2
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.17.1
Spatial Reality engine v10.17.1 requires Spatial Control v1.24.0 (or newer).
New Features:
- Support for Scene playback customization with Scene Actions. Now you have total control over individual sonic elements within your Scenes. Choose which elements suit your space and audience best and change volume, intensity and much more. The possibilities for bespoke soundscapes are limitless. New Scenes featuring Scene Actions will be added to the library and updated regularly. To use Scene Actions, update your iOS devices to Spatial Control 1.24.0.
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.16.1
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.16.0
Fixes
- Significant improvements to audio playback performance and resource management
- Additional performance and stability enhancements
10.15.16
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.15.15
Fixes
- Performance and stability improvements
10.15.14
Spatial Reality engine v10.15.14 requires Spatial Control v1.22.0 (or later).
New Features
- Offline Mode supports continuous operation including Scene load, play, stop and volume control from Spatial Control even when there is no Internet connectivity or if cloud services are unavailable. A local network connection is still required for communication between Spatial Reality engine and Spatial Control.
- Learn more about Offline Mode.
Fixes
- Significant improvements to overall performance and stability.
- Lower latency for AES67 input streaming audio.
- Addresses crashes related to AES67.
- Improved consistency in audio playback.
- More responsive communications between Spatial applications and computer groups.
Known Issues
- If Spatial Control is backgrounded immediately after initiating a load of a complex/large Scene, a Scene load error will be presented upon foregrounding the app but the Scene will successfully load and play.
- Spatial Control can take up to 60 seconds to go into Offline Mode after losing Internet connectivity.
- Spatial Control may briefly display the Offline Mode banner after foregrounding the app, even when there is normal Internet connectivity.
- Spatial Control may not load account, Site, Space and Scene images in Offline Mode.
- Spatial Control will not display the Scene description in Offline Mode.
- Switching between accounts in Spatial Control while in Offline Mode may occasionally present the error “You are offline and no Sites were found”. To remedy this condition, reconnect to the Internet.
10.4.13
Fixes
- Fixes a crash that affected Mac Pro 6,1 (Late 2013) machines.
10.4.12
Fixes
- Fixes a bug that caused unexpected volume modulation in Scenes with AES67 audio input.
- Addresses an issue that caused speaker names to sometimes be applied to Objects.
- Additional performance and stability improvements.
10.4.11
Fixes
- Improved performance when syncing spatialized audio with picture.
- Additional performance and stability improvements.
10.4.6
Distance effects behavior has been improved. Any Scenes created using Spatial Studio 2.0.2 will sound different when played back on a computer group running Spatial Reality 10.4.6
Fixes
- Fixes a crash on shutdown related to AES67 output.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
10.2.10
Distance effects behavior has been improved. Any Scenes created using Spatial Studio 2.0.2 will sound different when played back on a computer group running Spatial Reality 10.2.10
Fixes
- Fixes an issue with delay correction for speakers not working properly.
- Fixes several issues with distance effects calculation.
- Fixes an issue with the IGMP querier not working properly on the regular spatial network interface.
- Improves several areas of logging for improved performance.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
10.0.4
Fixes
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Fixes an issue that causes test tone and pink noise to not play back correctly.
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Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
10.0.0
New Features
- Spatial’s audio rendering approach has been overhauled for fantastic scalability and fidelity benefits:
- Significant improvements to objects’ physical behaviors for position, size and shape, and motion, including: loudness and delay management, fine tuned distance effects, doppler effect, and more.
- Fine tuned updates to render handling for scalability, with support for up to 64 channels of audio on a single M1 Mac mini. (You can always add more computers to Spatial for even better scaling and handling of very complex scenes.)
- Support for volume animation and fading, as well as handling improvements across most object properties.
- Spatial Reality engine support for Spatial Headspace, which allows creators to preview the audio from a scene using headphones or stereo speakers, including mimicking performance in actual Spatial spaces and allowing movement and rotation of the preview listener.
- Improvements supporting OSC inputs outputs and related external automation.
- Native integration with Steinway Lyngdorf for Spatial home theater enhancement applications.
Fixes
- Adjusted default object size for better positioning and distance performance out of the box.
- Improved audio performance for object level looping and randomness.
- Stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.27.6
New Features
- Enhances OSC integration to support up to 100 inputs.
Fixes
- Improves mechanism to restart content in case of an uncontrolled shutdown.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.27.3
New Features
- Improves compatibility with AES67 devices.
Fixes
- Fixes an issue that prevents scripts from being executed.
8.27.1
We recommend using Spatial Studio 1.4.1 or later and Spatial Control 1.15.0 or later with this version.
New Features
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Adds support for a custom configured multicast network address. This fixes an issue that causes Spatial Studio and Spatial Control to not be able to communicate with computer groups on certain network infrastructure.
(Contact us at support@spatialinc.com for configuration help with this specific issue.)
Fixes
- Fixes an issue that causes the Scene loading status to be reported incorrectly.
- Fixes an issue that causes audio to sputter and cut out when playing back extremely quiet content.
- Fixes and improvements to identification tone and pink noise infrastructure.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.25.3
We recommend using Spatial Studio 1.14.0 or later with this version.
Fixes
- Fixes an issue with Space and speaker volumes not being reset correctly after playing a test tone or pink noise.
- Improvements to logging and reporting.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.24.7
We recommend using Spatial Control 1.13.0 or later with this version.
New Features
- Adds support for playing an identification tone and pink noise from Spatial Control.
Fixes
- Improvements to computer group status reporting.
- Improvements to web caching.
- Fixes an issue that causes computer groups to be unresponsive while a Scene is loading for the first time.
- Fixes an issue that prevents Scene playback from properly finishing when multiple complex Scenes are playing on the same computer.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.24.2
New Features
- New additions to Scene revisioning and application support.
- Inactive sounds can be skipped in a soundset.
Fixes
- Improvements to playback performance and network connectivity when previewing Scenes from Spatial Studio.
- Improvements to loading and playing Scenes when playing Scenes from Spatial Control.
- Improvements for Scene rendering performance.
- Fixes an issue with the doppler effect.
- Fixes to small sound rendering issues.
- Fixes an issue with status reporting for computer groups with multiple computers.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.20.1
Fixes
- Fixes an issue with Scene state that caused Spatial Control to fail to connect to the computer group.
8.20.0
New Features
- Improved consistency of low-to-the-ground Scene Objects across most Spaces.
- For new spacemaps, the horizontal acoustic center of the Space — from which Scene Objects are positioned — is calculated to be at the center of the Space. The vertical center uses the z=0 value from speaker locations in the spacemap.
- The default spread in new Scenes is “3”. Spread is inherited by default.
- Bass management is on by default in new Scenes.
- Allow the setting of crossover frequencies in the spacemap.
Fixes
- Better support for multiple instances of Spatial Studio and Spatial Control when connected to the same computer group.
- Support for Spatial Control app performance enhancements.
- Improvements to script calls and randomization.
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.13.2
Fixes
- Reverts changes to event prioritization that caused issues with complex Scenes.
8.13.1
New Features
- Performance improvements via optimized delay calculations.
- New event prioritization structure and prioritized time-based events.
Fixes
- Additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
8.11.0
New Features
- 🎉 first release. Welcome to the future of audio.