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To help your team easily reconnect and share joyful moments together, we’re creating fun new team socials within Gather. One of our new experiences is Hip to be Square, a colorful competition to claim the most squares for your team. Just head to https://app.gather.town/team-socials, select , and you’ll instantly have a social Space ready to share.

Remember, Gather Socials for Teams are for teams under 25 people!

As you’re exploring Gather Socials, you may stumble upon a fun-filled park Space. In this park, we’ve hidden all kinds of new features and classic games, including poker and Draw Battle. If you find yourself in the park, share the URL with your team to explore this interactive Space together.

We’ve added Box select (keyboard shortcut: G) in the Mapmaker. Now you can select multiple objects and/or tile effects to move, copy, or delete them. By default, the tool selects both tile effects and objects; in the Top Nav Menu, you can choose to limit your selection to just objects or just tile effects.

Gather has partnered with Raid the Room to create a virtual escape room experience! Do you have what it takes to escape the island? Work together in a team of 2-6 people to solve puzzles and conquer all five levels before you miss your ride home. Check it out on the tab from your Gather homepage.

Go-karts have been moved to Extensions, and they are now available in all Spaces! Open in the Mapmaker, then activate . Next, add a go-kart station to your Space from the Object Picker. Wait a few minutes, then go-karts show up to the right of the station. Just press “x” to hop on a kart and you’re off to the races! Read more on the go kart extension.

One of our most requested features is live—you can now add a dog to your Space! Open Extension Settings in the Mapmaker, then activate Pets. Next, add a pet bed to your Space from the Object Picker. Your office pup will hang out in their bed until you walk up and press “x” to pet them. After some good pets, the pup follows you around the office!

Capture your picture-perfect moment in your Gather Event Spaces with the new photo mode. You can choose whether to include your videos and change the zoom level. Once you’ve snapped the picture, you can download the image to your computer to treasure forever.

In new Event Spaces that have scheduled sessions, the Speaker, Mod, or Admin can mass mute everyone in the Room during the session. Session attendees will see a message that the host has muted audio.

Hold onto your hats—have we got some updates for you!

Wanting to host an event, but can’t find the right template? Check out our new Event Space creation flow. Answer a few questions, add or remove certain room types, and voila! A lovely Space that’s just the right size, tailored to your event’s needs with an inviting lobby to welcome your guests in.

Hosting three panel discussions at the same time? Add three Talk Rooms to your Space. Need a place for people to socialize in? Add a game room in a single click. No need to connect Rooms or find the right template—it’s all automatically done for you!

To try it out:

After creating an event and preparing your Space, you can assign sessions to specific Rooms! Whether you’re hosting talks, workshops, or socials, you can add everything that’s happening at your event into Gather. Sessions will appear on the in-Space schedule and on your event landing page.

When the session starts, guests can select from the landing page schedule to teleport directly to the session’s location. If the guest is already in the Space, they can select from the session description to follow a dynamic line to the Room.

Event Editors and Owners can edit and update the schedule through the event’s checklist, available from the tab on https://app.gather.town/app.

Hosting a talk or presentation? Don’t worry—we’ve got it covered. We’ve created Talk Rooms for speakers to host their keynotes, panel discussions, and presentations in! You can invite speakers to specific sessions, and they’ll receive an email to join your event. After accepting your invite, they can create a speaker profile that will be showcased on the schedule and in the Talk Room.

From their Talk Room, speakers select (podium icon) in the toolbar to customize the Room and manage special presentation features. A key Talk Room feature is the new moderated Q&A. Key Q&A details:

We're working hard to test and develop some great new features, particularly for events. Keep an eye out for some fantastic new improvements to the event creation flow!

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We’re excited to announce our new navigation layout! Our team brainstormed how to make Gather both easier to use and more flexible for adding new features. A few things we think you’ll love include the easy-to-access mic and camera toggles, a personal video feed that doesn’t take up space in the Map, and navigation that resizes without losing any icons.

Try out the new navigation by opening (Ctrl/⌘+P), selecting the tab, and toggling on . We’re aiming to release this to everyone on March 28. Tell your friends!

You can now see up to 16 people at a time when you expand your video carousel into grid mode.

If you notice performance issues with the larger video grid size, you can turn off the larger grid size in User Settings under .

It’s hard to tell when it’s okay to walk up and chat with someone at a big event. We’re trying out a new feature to help break the ice and provide a clear signal to others when you’re happy to chat.

When you toggle this on, your status will change to “Come say hi!” and there will be a speech bubble over your head saying, “Come say hi!” to make it easier for others to find you. To remove either of these, simply toggle the feature off.

Working with colleagues across several time zones? Never sure if it’s a good time to bother your co-worker? With the World Clock extension, you can have your local time displayed in your status.

To use this, you will need to:

Want more details or to see other available extensions? See the Extensions category in our help center.

Been wanting a fun and dynamic way to vote on topics, get a pulse check, or see how many people are in each group when splitting into teams? Try out our new Vote with Your Feet extension! Label private areas for your guests to stand in to show their support for a particular option. Once everyone has settled down and made their choice, interact with our special extension object to tally up the votes and have the results sent to you as a private message or have it sent to everyone in the room.

To use this, you will need to:

Want more details or to see other available extensions? See the Extensions category in our help center.

Have you ever tried to decorate your office or booth to find that your images are huge compared to everything else? If so, head to the Object Picker and select the Company Logo (Upload) object.

After placing it on your map, anyone with Builder or Moderator permissions can press “x” to upload a new image that will be automatically resized to fit within a 2x5 tile area.

We realize that one size does not fit all at Gather. Everyone has different needs, especially when they’re using our platform for wildly different things. With that in mind, today we’d like to introduce the ability to have all of your guests preload all of your Space’s assets while on the loading screen.

Typically, assets will only load as you approach them and assets in other rooms will only download if you choose to visit those rooms. This speeds up how quickly someone can enter your Space and begin exploring. This may also result in our now infamous question mark boxes dotting your space.

If you do not want assets to load on an as-needed basis for your guests (for immersive theatre, escape rooms, etc.), you can turn on the “Preload all assets” feature in your Space’s Settings to have everything download while your guest is loading into the Space. Turning on this option for your Space will change this behavior for all future visitors.

Although it may take longer for your Space to initially load, you now have the option to provide a more seamless experience for your guests, regardless of their internet connection.

That's all for now!

- The Gather Team