Welcome to the Developer Update for July 16, 2026.
Today’s featured world is 碧蓝空想（湛望角站) by 元气克星花阳.
Announcements
Celebrate Tanabata!
Tanabata, if you’re not familiar, is a Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi.
Generally, as the story goes, they fell in love – but then stopped tending to their duties! Orihime’s father then forbade them from seeing each other, sending them to opposite ends of the Milky Way. After Orihime broke down, her father decided to let the couple meet once every year across that vast cosmic distance – that’s Tanabata!
We celebrated it this year with a shop update. We also celebrated it in another way, which we’ll be talking about a little later on!
We’re Putting Our Stream on Hold
Our regular stream has been put on hold indefinitely! We’re looking at different ways to have community impact and keep you guys up to date, and that includes our stream format and cadence.
We think it’s getting a little stale, so we’re thinking of different things we could do to change it up.
Tanabata Fireworks in Japan!
On Saturday, July 11, our Japanese Community Team hosted its first-ever official in-game VRChat event: a Tanabata fireworks celebration, co-hosted with the event group Spice of VRinks!
Visitors gathered in the official Tanabata Home World to write wishes on tanzaku, snap photos with friends, and count down together to a fireworks show that lit up the sky at 11:11pm JST.
The turnout was incredible! We saw record-setting numbers in Japan that night, and the energy when the fireworks went off was something special.
A huge thank-you to Spice of VRinks and to everyone who came out to make a wish with us. This was our first event hosted by the Japanese team, and with a response like this, it definitely won’t be the last.
Image Copy/Paste… to Stickers! And Emoji. And Icons. …and prints. you get the idea okay
Soon, you’ll be able to directly paste image data (JPG, PNG, or clipboard) directly into VRChat to create Prints, Icons, Stickers and Emojis in one click!
- Stickers, icons, and emojis are all padded out to a square with transparency by default, making it easier to crop them (if you want!) or leave them fully in view. Prints are left alone.
- ‘Portrait’ images are auto-rotated to fit when creating Prints, and we’ve added a nifty button for rotating them as you see fit.
- Pasting raw image data, pasting files, or dragging/dropping an image are all supported!
- To make it a little easier to finagle in VR, a new ‘Paste’ icon will show up in the Quick Menu launch pad if you’ve got image data ready to go. It does the same thing as Ctrl+V.
Themed Action Menu and Quality of Life Improvements
Addressing one of our longest standing community requests, the Action Menu will soon use your configured UI theme colors!
Besides that, we also gave it a little spring cleaning, too (okay, it’s maybe not quite spring anymore).
The “Tools” menu now has long-press actions for secondary functionality, such as directly entering a relevant settings menu. This is optional, as all menus remain reachable via single-press paths as well.
Some unnecessary options, such as “Mic Toggle” and “Close Menu” have been removed from the “Options” tab. This makes space to move the “Face Mirror” menu out of the “Personal Mirror” one (why was it in there to begin with? A mystery lost to time…).
Speaking of the mirror menus, they have been slightly reorganized (don’t worry, we tried to not break muscle-memory too much). You can also change all the options while the respective mirrors are closed now. No more dying when you take out your mirror with remote players enabled in the club.
Lastly, there are now personal mirror presets you can set up. If you have different use-cases for your mirror, for example a “show everything” for smaller instances and “show only myself” for bigger parties, you can now save those and apply them with a single click.
Oh, and if you’re wondering where the “Calibration Mirror” option has gone: It’s still there, in the Main Menu settings. We have turned it on by default for new FBT users as well, seeing how most people find it useful to have.
Conclusion
That’s it for this Dev Update! We’ll see you next time on July 30.
