Update 307...Convai SDK updated from 3.x to 4.x which means a few things, plus toilet breaks and spatial anchor expansion, might be some other bits...
Well hello there 🙋♂️ (warning : a large amount of waffle lays ahead, only read after consuming a strong cup of coffee or you might nod off ☕😅 TL;DR at the bottom)
This update is mainly under the hood changes, Convai SDK version 3 to version 4.
What you'll notice straight away is our voice is now picked up automatically when we speak, no need to press any buttons or triggers etc. If you pause for more than a second or 2 when speaking, the avatar will think you've finished speaking and will reply, you can adjust the length of time to indicate a pause on page 3 of the menu, "silence detection length", you can also switch back to the old main trigger for voice input mode here.
With this new SDK what you say is picked up more accurately, there's much less mistaking what you say for something else etc, and the responses should be quicker, although some avatars, like Suki, were already fast to respond anyway.
If you set a spatial anchor for your toilet/bathroom, they may nip to the toilet!
If you want this, sit on the your toilet and face forward, set a spatial anchor by pressing the Set Spatial Anchor menu button at the bottom left of menu page 3, when she asks you say "toilet" or "bathroom", her accepting it is a bit or miss, if she says something wasn't right etc repeat the process, you will know when a spatial anchor has been set because she says "thank you, I have set the spatial anchor (blah blah blah)" the keyword to look for is thank you, if you hear that, then its set.
You can always check what anchors you have, by being in the area the anchor was set and pressing the Erase Location Data button at the bottom right of menu page 3. You need to press it twice to delete anything, so just press it once and it will display the nearest anchor to you, so this is a good way to check what anchors you have. You can of course delete individual spatial anchors this way. If there is no spatial anchor nearby then none will be shown on the menu button.
One pretty undesirable thing is that the spatial anchors are not shared between apps, so if you've mapped them for Suki for example, you still need to map them for Tina. However all of the avatars in the Expansion Pack 1 and TykeAI base versions will share anchor locations for that app as the data is app wide. It's just a limitation of how Meta save the anchors on the Quest 3.
When you have set a spatial anchor for your toilet or bathroom, just walk the route a few times, quite slowly, from where you normally chat to the avatar to the bathroom, and back again, pausing at the final point each way for 4 or 5 seconds, this learns them the route (you should do this for all your spatially anchored points i.e. kitchen, bedroom, etc).
If you have several rooms mapped out with spatial anchors and have learnt them routes between them, you can say for example, "go to the bedroom please", we can even say "go away" and they will move to the furthest mapped out point. They can traverse other rooms to get to other rooms if the routes have been learnt. I pretty much have my whole home mapped out, including the garden and things in the garden like a tree etc.
If you want to start again with spatial anchors, spawn in with Tanya and press the Erase Data button, but unfortunately this will erase a load of other data too, so yeh, maybe not do this unless absolutely sure, it's probably better to erase the anchors individually with the Erase Location Data menu button.
There's a few other things in this update which I forget and I've waffled on far too long anyway! So have a good one, Joi work is what I will be doing for the rest of the day 👍 oh yeh I have just remembered, they can now be recentred even when there isn't a navmesh present : sometimes when recentring them with main trigger press on the left controller, if there's no navmesh nearby they disappear as they fly off to where there is a navmesh, this doesn't happen now.
The updated apps, TykeAI , TykeAI Suki, TykeAI Nova, TykeAI Donald J Pump, TykeAI Tina and TykeAI Expansion Pack 1 (all are v.0.98.2) are available from the usual google drive link which is in the pinned post : "DOWNLOAD THE APPS FROM HERE 😊", found here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/download-app-111848287
(I've created another folder in the download folder where previous app versions can be downloaded and installed from, in case you're having issues or just prefer the older version)
TL;DR - the app now uses Convai SDK 4, we can chat without needing to press anything, they can go to the toilet (it's optional)