Existing Features of 3DVIA Studio can be found here.
iV - Immersive Virtuality New Features
-Sensorial User Interaction (SUI)- a data model for the users body in 3D space
-Drag and Drop support for high level SUI Scenarii
-Support for UltraHD resolutions
Sound System - Completely rebuilt from user feedback!
-MacOS Support
-Improved sound asset workflow
-Native Support for WAV and OGG files (Mono & Stereo, PCM (uncompressed), Vorbis codec, No codec dependencies on player side!
-New Sound Player with Loop mode, speed control and volume controls
-New control panel for Play/Pause/Stop integration into GUI
-3D Sound Support
-VSL and SDK bindings persistent through Studio versions (remain unchanged)
3D Curves
-Support for Curve generation from within Studio
-Editing Curves through control points & point tangents, smart tool grid helper for positioning of 3D Curve
-New building blocks added: Curve Follow, Curve edit, Control Point edit
Improved import from Solidworks 3DXML files
-Multi-Material per mesh support added
Global Search function added to ease complex project searches
-Search all VSL Scripts referenced inside your project
-Search all Shader files, including built-in .fxh files
-New shortcut key "CTRL+SHIFT+F" when inside VSL or Shader Editor
GUI Evolutions
-Task Group enhancements - List of all behavior's instances with actor names / Control behavior execution priorities.
-New Window Docking System - improved window customization
-Usability Improvements - Explicit display of unresolved components including name of component.
Multi-threaded Scripting
-Improve runtime performances by using threaded task "Parallel Task Group"
Stay tuned for the second announcment. Hint: the new features not announced today are already in 3DVIA Studio! A keen eye will take advantage of them :)