It’s that time of the year again — jack o’ lanterns, haunted houses, and that pair of eyes watching you from right behind the mirror everyone’s staring at. That’s right, it’s time for VRChat’s Halloween event: Spookality 2019!

Spookality is VRChat’s yearly event where we embrace the odd, the slightly creepy, and the weird. What better place to spend Halloween except where you can be anything you want to be? As a nice bonus, you don’t need to answer your door every three minutes to hand out your hard-earned candy.

• Come check out our Halloween Worlds row, where you can find out what kind of spooky stuff our creators have been up to. Creepy worlds, unnerving locales, and scary games-- not to mention tracking down and finding a good avatar to sneak up on your friends with.
  
• Starting October 25th - Check out a selection of worlds and avatars that our creators have submitted to the Spookality Contest!
  
• Something's up with the VRChat Hub... you might want to go take a look.

In addition to hanging out in creepy, dark, and dank worlds with your friends, why not enter your latest spooky World or Avatar into our Spookality contest? For Spookality 2019, we have four categories:

• Worlds (PC)
  
• Worlds (Cross-Platform)
  
• Avatars (PC)
  
• Avatars (Cross-Platform)

If you'd like to read more about the contest, check out our latest blog post on the Spookality 2019 event!

That's all for now, but keep an eye out. You never know what's staring at you from behind the mirror...

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.3.2, build number 860. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

Here's some highlights from our patch notes. Check out our patch notes for the full list!

• Lots of Full-Body Tracking updates!
  
• Improved the behavior and fidelity of Full-Body Tracking in many situations
  
• When using Full-Body Tracking, the Sit/Stand button changes into a "Calibrate" button

If you're a Full-Body Tracking user or avatar creator, we STRONGLY suggest that you check out our new Full-Body Tracking documentation, which includes information on the expected avatar configuration for optimal full-body tracking.

There's a lot more changes, so please read the patch notes!

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them in instances. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK available at the VRChat Home website. It will be updated within the next 30 minutes.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.3.1, build number 840. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

Here's some highlights from our patch notes. Check out our patch notes for the full list!

• Improved the Minimum Displayed Performance Rank system's behavior so that it needs to hide avatars less often when enabled
  
• On all control schemes, "Grip" no longer triggers OnInteract. This means that on Rift / Rift S / Index, you can no longer sit in chairs or set off Interact triggers by using Grip. Use your controller's Trigger instead!
  
• Greatly improved avatar loading time
  
• Fixed an issue where Index controller wireframes would sometimes get stuck in user's hands
  
• Lots of fixes for the SDK, including a UI overhaul!

There's a lot more changes, so please read the patch notes!

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them in instances. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK available at the VRChat Home website. It will be updated within the next 30 minutes. The file you're looking for will be named VRCSDK-2019.08.20.13.28_Public.unitypackage.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.2.5, build number 825. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes some pretty big changes to our audio systems! Please check out our latest blog post here to read more.

There's a lot more changes, so please read the patch notes! For more details, read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them in instances. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK available at the VRChat Home website. The correct version you're looking for is named VRCSDK-2019.07.31.13.58_Public.unitypackage, and should be updated within 15 minutes of this post going out.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.2.4, build number 800. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes an update to Unity 2017.4.28f1! If you upload content like worlds or avatars, you need to update your Unity Editor install. Check out our documentation to see the process.

This update also includes:

• The ability to choose a minimum allowed performance rank, so you can hide badly performing avatars
  
• Thanks to the Unity upgrade, the ability to swap microphones in-app has returned!
  
• More Valve Index Controller refinements
  
• More Networked IK refinements

There's a lot more changes, so please read the patch notes! For more details, read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them in instances. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK available at the VRChat Home website.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.2.3, build number 791. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes:

• Valve Index Controller support with finger tracking! It is very important that if you plan on using Valve Index Controllers (including Knuckles prototypes) that you read our patch notes regarding bindings. We also have a detailed page on our Index Controller bindings in our documentation.
  
• Gesture Toggle to disable/enable Gesture Overrides on the fly! Only available for Valve Index Controllers at this time.
  
• Further optimizations and work on Networked IK, voice, and other systems
  
• Advanced Settings in the Settings Menu that allows you to clear your cache and local preference store

Read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them in instances. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK, available at the VRChat Home website.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.2.2, build number 772. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes:

• The return of networked IK!
  
• Several major optimizations to many of our systems like voice and UI
  
• Support for cross-platform content in preparation for our launch on the Oculus Quest
  
• New Featured avatars from our Community!

Read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them online. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK, available at the VRChat Home website.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.2.1, build number 746. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

Read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them online. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK, available at the VRChat Home website.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.1.4, build number 735. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes:

• Dynamic Bone Limitation system. Use this system to limit the number of Dynamic Bones on an avatar, and customize your limits with a configuration change. Read more about this system in our docs or in our recent Blog post.
  
• Changes to our Notification system to speed up sending/receiving notifications
  
• You can now search Community Labs worlds as long as you've opted-in for Community Labs at least once

Read the full details of this release.

Until your friends update their version of VRChat, you will not be able to see them online. Let them know that a new version is available!

If you're a creator, make sure you grab the latest SDK, available at the VRChat Home website.

Hello everyone! We've just released VRChat 2019.1.3, build number 721. You should restart Steam to get the latest update, and ensure you're not on any beta branches.

This release includes VRChat Community Labs, a new way to get your worlds out quickly into public view! Opt into Community Labs to view the latest worlds that creators have submitted. You can read more about VRChat Community Labs in our blog post.

In order to upload content to Community Labs, you'll need our new SDK, available on the VRChat Home site.

There's a few other fixes in this release, which you can read about in our Release Notes.