Hubs Features
User Interface
Menu Button: Reveals links to user preferences, room controls and other useful information.
Screen & Camera Sharing: Enables you to share your desktop, webcam, or phone camera with room members. The shared media will appear like a video in the room. Click this button again or use the object menu to remove the media.
Mute: Toggles your microphone on/off.
Share: Opens a dialog box with information on sharing the room with friends. More info is provided in the Share Room Dialog section at the bottom of this page.
Pen: Lets you draw in 3D space. You can change the pen's size and color (see Hubs Controls), undo strokes, and generate 3D models from your drawing (see the drawing menu).
Camera: Creates a camera object that can take photos and videos of the room then add them to the room as objects. When you take a photo or video, a link also appears in the chat. Click the camera button again to remove the camera object.
Media Browser: Opens a search tool to find media you can bring into the room. Select from 3D models, scenes, avatars and gifs, or provide a URL or file for an image, video, model or scene.
Object Browser: Displays a list of the media items that exist in the room. Click on the objects in the list for further options.
Member List: Displays information on the people in the room and lobby. Shows the number of room members, their names, and their device type. You can also access advanced user controls from this list.
Help: Opens resources to learn about Hubs.
Send Message: Sends text written in the chat box to all room members (including those in the lobby). Alternatively, press Enter after entering text in the chat box.
Create Object: Creates a room object out of the information in the chat box. For example, if there is text in the chat box, it will be converted into an image and pasted into the room. If there is a link to a media object (e.g., YouTube URL, Sketchfab object) the object will spawn in the room.
Chat: Enables you to communicate via text chat, create objects or enter commands. Commands include:
/leave - Disconnect from the room.
/grow - Increase your avatar's size.
/shrink - Decrease your avatar's size.
/duck - Create a duck object.
/debug - Toggle physics debug rendering.
/vrstats - Toggle stats in VR.
/scene <scene url> - Change the scene (moderators only).
/rename <new name> - Rename the room (moderators only).
/audiomode - Toggle positional audio (experimental).
/fly - Toggle fly mode.
- Favorite Room: Saves the room to your list of Hubs favorites, making it easy to find when you return to Hubs.
Menus
Room objects and avatars have their own menus. To reveal them on desktop computers, hover your cursor on the object, and press the space bar (or tab). For VR devices, see the Controls section of the docs.
Object Menu
- Pin: Makes the object stay in the room when you leave. By default, objects disappear when their creators exit.
- Target: Opens a focused view of the object. This menu item is present for media objects.
- Resize: Resizes the object.
- Open link: Opens the URL of the object in a new browser tab.
- Trash: Removes the object from the scene.
- Gravity: Makes the object fall to the floor.
- Clone: Makes a duplicate of the object.
- Rotate: Rotates the object.
- Magnify: Displays a view of object low in your view. This menu item (not shown) is present for media objects.
- Convert to drawing: Converts the object back to a drawing. This menu item (not shown) is present if the object originated from a drawing.
Avatar Menu
- Volume: Changes the volume of the user's audio. (Doesn't affect the volume for others in the room.)
- Hide: Hides a user's avatar and audio from you. This only applies to the current session; once you refresh you will see them again. Other room members can still see and hear the user.
- Mute: Mutes the user's microphone so that they are no longer heard by anyone in the room. (Moderators only.)
- Kick: Temporarily kicks a user from the room. (Moderators only.)
Camera Menus
- Photo: Takes a still image then adds it to the room as an object.
- Video: Records a video then adds it to the room as an object. Use the arrows to adjust the recording length. Note that video recordings are temporarily saved to browser storage; a recording in progress may be lost if the browser runs out of space. If you wish to record an event we recommend using a screen recording tool such as OBS.
- Mute Video: Controls whether audio is included in the video.
- Recenter: Reorients the camera to face you.
- Trash: Removes the camera from the scene.
- Rotate: Rotates the camera.
- Object Focus: Reorients the camera to face the object or user.
- Object Track: Makes the camera rotate to follow the object or user.
Drawing Menu
- Create: Makes the drawing into a 3D object.
- Undo: - Removes the last stroke.
- Trash - Removes the drawing from the scene.
Video Controls
Hover your cursor on a video to display its video controls.
- Screencapture: Takes a screenshot of the video and then adds it to the room as an object.
- Volume: Changes the volume of the audio playback for you. (Does not affect the volume for others in the room.)
- Play/Pause: Plays/pauses the video.
- Time Controls: Jumps forwards/backwards in the video.
Emoji Spawners
A menu of emoji spawners is displayed when you display object or avatar menus.
The emoji menu lets you spawn a grabbable emoji that emits particles when shaken. The emoji is deleted a few seconds after you let go of it.
Share Room Dialog
The "Share" button opens a dialog with the information you need in order to share the room with others, so that they can join you in the room.
You can copy or share the hub.link URL or use the numeric code to share a link verbally. Note that numeric codes expire after 72 hours.
The iframe HTML code (displayed if you have room permissions) lets you embed the room in a web page.
The "notify me" checkbox (displayed if you have room permissions) enables you to sign up for notifications that alert you when another user enters the room. You can sign up for notifications on your phone or desktop. You do not need to remain in the room to receive notifications.