Release history

October 12, 2026

v1.3.1

Atlas browsing

Redesigned the Year and Type views in Atlas, keeping the view controls in a consistent position.
Added a branching type network with project points sized by the number of available views. Projects with multiple types share one point connected to each category.
Added project type classifications and merged Urban Plaza into Plaza.
Corrected recording titles for Huacheng Square and Yongqing Fang.

October 10, 2026

Browse individual viewpoints

Added Projects / Views switching in Browse, with grid and list layouts for individual viewpoints.
Connected viewpoint results to project-tag and space-type filters, with search across viewpoint titles and tags.
Kept the first row of each filter group visible, with independent expand controls and selected tags retained when collapsed.
Added direct links that open a project with the selected viewpoint, and a dismissible first-visit tip for the new browsing mode.

October 9, 2026

Citation access and space tags

Added a footer citation dialog with APA, Chicago and MLA formats and a copy control.
Updated the suggested citation to the published Zenodo dataset DOI.
Expanded viewpoint filters with Canopy, Topography and Bridge tags and refined Overlook tagging.
Adjusted navigation breakpoints to keep all menu items accessible at intermediate widths.
Capped the homepage width, stabilized Recent additions card sizes and added a four-column Upcoming layout on wide screens.
Separated Recently added and Project year sorting and corrected size sorting across area units.

October 7, 2026

Viewing guidance and site information

Reorganized Equipment into four expandable viewing options, recommended hardware and a six-step headset workflow.
Added guidance on native YouTube playback, 4K quality, looping and matching seated or standing capture positions.
Explained affordable phone viewers and the optical advantages of standalone headsets.
Added a compact global footer with authorship, version information and a separate release history page.
Refined the project voting control with a smaller, lighter background.

October 7, 2026

View previews and Atlas refinements

Extended Atlas to include upcoming projects as gray markers, with solid-color clusters.
Made the results list appear only after map selection and constrained its height to prevent overflow.
Added simplified state boundaries to the US regional map.
Expanded upcoming entries with illustrated covers, including Circo Massimo and Portland International Airport.
Aligned upcoming cards with published-card information hierarchy and standardized designer credits.
Reworked Tongva preview edges to match the archive’s established collage covers.
Added text-free preview artwork for earlier project recordings.
Moved viewpoint descriptions into compact information controls on desktop and removed them from mobile view lists.
Added the archive descriptor beside the logo and tightened its spacing.
Corrected recent-addition ordering and refined Tongva publication notes.
Enabled the main preview artwork to change when a different view is selected.
Released Tongva Park with seven views and consecutive published view numbering.

September 27, 2026

Project and individual-space discovery

Added multiple project types rather than a single exclusive classification.
Added individual-view space types and corresponding Browse filters, alongside project tags.
Made upcoming entries work consistently in list view and refined card widths across breakpoints.
Added a US regional Atlas view and refined world-map labels according to marker density.
Added marker hover feedback; point selection filters the adjacent list instead of opening a project immediately.
Kept separated markers at the current map scale and used fixed regional zoom where locations overlap.
Preserved map proportions as the window resizes.
Ordered Recent additions by publication date and added a fading edge without a visible scrollbar.
Limited Journal hover activation to the visible card and placed the introductory note at the bottom of its timeline.
Released The Broad with four views and corrected the catalogue data used by Atlas.

September 26, 2026

Journal launch

Added a Journal for personal field notes, project announcements and photographs.
Added month labels, search and topic filtering to the Journal card layout.
Allowed photo-only cards with short captions and direct links to related projects.
Refined card movement to a subtle hover translation, including photo cards, without skew or pointer-following rotation.
Added Shenzhen children’s play-space recordings and an upcoming OCT Harbour entry.

September 22, 2026

Archive presentation and statistics

Added recording totals to Atlas and About statistics.
Added viewpoint counts to Browse and Atlas project displays.
Retained designer and site-area information in the featured project and refined cover alignment.
Refined search titles and archive descriptions around landscape architecture and urban public spaces.
Added a compact archive introduction to the homepage.
Restored the established homepage proportions and controlled wide-screen layout.
Enabled Cloudflare Web Analytics on production pages.
Added upcoming entries and covers for Tongva Park and The Broad.

September 13, 2026

Native headset playback guidance

Explained the Quest browser clarity issue and the native YouTube app viewing route.
Added copyable video search titles and long-press paste instructions.
Established city-based recording codes at the end of YouTube titles.
Released Smale Riverfront Park with three recordings.

September 12, 2026

Initial usable archive

Added Guangzhou project pages with metadata, video links and illustrated covers.
Established catalogue visibility controls and the contribution submission workflow.
Reorganized educator guidance around embodied scale, drawing from observation and comparing spaces.
Established the cover illustration style and updated licensing and citation links to the site domain.
Added crawlable static project pages, canonical links and search metadata.
Opened recordings on YouTube instead of embedding them, with mobile app guidance.
Updated Equipment to reflect external playback.
Filled the detail preview with its project cover and aligned the enlarged homepage cover with metadata.
Standardized missing-designer rows and tightened educator-section spacing.
Extended project visibility from hidden/published to hidden/upcoming/published.
Displayed upcoming projects separately with subdued covers while keeping unavailable recordings inactive.
Added a cover for the forthcoming Shenzhen project.
Added the LENS logo and visual identity.
Made the featured-project action open project details so visitors can choose among views.
Addressed overlapping project markers with clustering and fixed world, China and Guangdong views.
Retained the schematic line-art map style through regional zoom, with recognizable coastal detail and simplified province boundaries.
Fixed narrow-screen overflow in Browse and About.
Added headset playback guidance with a copy-and-search route to the YouTube app.

July 20, 2026

Prototype refinements

May 20, 2026

Initial prototype