Release 25.01 of the CareAR Core and AI Platforms delivers the following:
- Experience Builder Templates
- Visual Verification Updates
- 3D Element
- Customizable background and lighting effects
- GenAI Image Creation Model Update
- Experience Builder page selection
- Intelligent Search Coveo updates
- CareAR Web Assist Enhancements
- (Host) Recording
- (Host) Screenshare
- (Host) Share image
- (Guest) Add hint label for display name option
- (Guest) Use non-English characters for display name
- Admin Portal Enhancements
- [Co-Branding] Extend Supplementary text field max from 120 chars to 700 chars
Experience Builder Templates
We're thrilled to announce the launch of Experience Builder Templates, a significant enhancement designed to accelerate your content creation process within CareAR Experience Builder. This release introduces two powerful template types, empowering you to build engaging digital work instructions faster than ever before.
Page Templates:
We've revamped and expanded our library of Page Templates. These pre-designed page layouts allow you to quickly assemble experiences by simply dragging and dropping them onto your canvas.
The benefit is accelerated page creation that eliminates the need to build page layouts from scratch. With the updated page templates content creators now have access a broader range of page layouts to suit diverse workflows.
How it Works: Navigate to the "Templates" panel within the Experience Builder. Select "Page Templates" and browse the available options. Drag and drop your chosen template directly onto your canvas.
Experience Templates:
We're introducing Experience Templates, a brand-new feature that provides complete, multi-page workflows or functional snippets. Experience templates enable rapid experience development. Content creators can start with a pre-configured experience and customize it to your specific needs.
Here's the updated "How it Works" section, incorporating the Experience Template preview:
How it Works: Navigate to the "Templates" panel on the right-hand side of the Experience Builder. Select "Experience Templates" and explore the available options. Before inserting a template into your draft experience, you can preview it in a miniature Experience Builder canvas. This preview allows you to examine the template's structure, flow, and content in detail. Once you are satisfied, select the desired template, and it will populate the main Experience Builder canvas with all the template pages. You can then customize the pages to your specific needs.
We believe that Experience Builder Templates will significantly enhance your content creation workflow. We encourage you to explore these new features and provide us with your feedback. We are committed to continuously improving CareAR Experience Builder to meet your evolving needs.
CareAR Web Assist Enhancements
With release 25.01, we enhance the web Assist app for host to include the following features:
- Recording
- Screen sharing
- Share image
Also, when launching the web Assist app the popup modal window’s dimensions have been adjusted to match those of the CareAR web portal. This enhancement will improve the usability of the web Assist app.
For the web Assist guest app, we now support:
- Hint label for display name option when first joining
- Use of non-English characters for display name
Visual Verification updates
We've significantly improved the performance and portability of Visual Verification within the CareAR platform. We've optimized the core technology behind Visual Verification, resulting in faster and more responsive object detection. This enhancement delivers a more seamless and efficient user experience.
You'll experience a noticeable reduction in the time it takes for Visual Verification to identify objects. This means faster real-time guidance and improved workflow efficiency for your users. Additionally, experiences that utilize Visual Verification are now fully self-contained. When you export an experience, it now includes the trained machine learning model, ensuring complete functionality upon import into a new tenant. This eliminates the need for any additional configuration steps, simplifying deployment and ensuring consistent performance across environments.
Action Required:
To activate these performance and portability improvements, simply open any existing experience that utilizes Visual Verification and republish it. This simple action will automatically enable the updated technology and embed the model within your experience.
Experience Builder 3D Element
With this release we are introducing the new 3D Element within the CareAR Experience Builder, a significant enhancement that empowers you to create more immersive and interactive experiences. We replaced the dedicated i3D page template with a versatile 3D Element. This element allows you to seamlessly integrate 3D models directly into any page within your experience. You can now place 3D visualizations alongside other content elements, providing greater flexibility in designing your digital work instructions.
You gain precise control over the placement and size of 3D element within your pages. The 3D Element enables you to build more dynamic and informative experiences by combining 3D visualizations with text, images, and other interactive elements. Please note that there is a limit of one 3D Element per page.
Importantly, the 3D Element now supports advanced 3D content created by CareAR professional services. This eliminates the previous requirement for the native CareAR app, allowing you to view advanced 3D models directly within a web browser. This means you can now use the Experience Builder to modify all aspects of your experience, including those that contain advanced 3D content. Your users are no longer required to use the CareAR app to view your experiences containing advanced content.
This update streamlines the creation process and enhances the accessibility of your 3D content, leading to more engaging and effective user experiences.
NOTE: Previously created 3D content using the i3D page template will continue to work as before. However, you will not be able to add new i3D pages. Going forward you must use the 3D element.
Customizable Backgrounds and Lighting Effects
We've enhanced the 3D element in the CareAR Experience Builder with customizable backgrounds and lighting effects. Content creators now personalize the visual presentation of their 3D models (.glb files) within the experience. You can replace the default gray background with a range of new background options and modify the lighting to highlight specific features of your 3D content.
This update gives creators greater control over the aesthetic of their 3D models, allowing for more engaging and informative work instructions. Choose from a variety of backgrounds and lighting effects to achieve the desired look and feel, ensuring your 3D content is presented in the best possible light.
Generative AI Image Creation Model Update
We've upgraded the Image Generation feature within CareAR Experience Builder, empowering you to create even more compelling visuals for your digital work instructions. We enhanced the underlying technology powering Image Generation. This update delivers improved image quality and more accurate results based on your text prompts. With this update you can generate higher-quality images to enhance the clarity and engagement of your experiences. You will experience more precise image generation that better reflects your text descriptions. Continue to use the Image Generation feature as before. Simply enter your text prompt, and the updated technology will generate your image.
Experience Builder Page Selection
We've streamlined page connections in the CareAR Experience Builder with a new dropdown selection feature. Content creators now link pages directly from the page properties, eliminating the need to drag connections across large experiences. You can easily choose the destination page for any button by selecting it from a comprehensive dropdown list.
This update simplifies the process of building complex experiences with numerous pages. You avoid the cumbersome task of visually connecting distant pages, leading to a faster and more efficient workflow. Select your desired page from the dropdown within the page properties, and establish connections with precision and ease.
Increased Camera Capture Resolution
We’ve increased the resolution of the Camera Capture feature to improve the image quality for images taken. This will result in higher quality images for clarity.
Intelligent Search - Coveo updates
We've updated the Coveo search proxy within Intelligent Search to ensure future compatibility. We updated the underlying URL scheme of the Coveo search proxy. This update aligns with Coveo's latest standards, guaranteeing seamless integration and ongoing support.
Admin Portal Enhancements
- Co-branding page - extend Supplementary text field max from 120 chars to 700 chars
- Cleanup of Account Information