VRED 2026.2 What's New

Learn about new features and improvements in this release of VRED. For technical details and bug fixes, see the 2026.2 release notes and recommended system requirements to ensure Autodesk VRED products are running to their potential.

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What's New in 2026.2

VRED 2026.2 introduces significant enhancements, including Alias to VRED Live Referencing, which now supports importing variant data, environments, and curves from Alias. The release also brings improved material handling with new Sheen layer support for Plastic materials and a new Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing (DLAA) mode, which aims for higher image quality. Vulkan includes upgrades for better color grading and auxiliary visualizations in display clustering. Additionally, new hardware-accelerated streaming supports more codecs, including H264, H265, and AV1, for enhanced performance. General improvements include added reference nodes to the Scenegraph filter list and support for layered shaders from Alias.

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Important Updates

Find information on the latest required Windows and Linux drivers, minimum requirements for VR/XR runtimes, and other changes in this article. And don't forget to check out the change to the Data Translator Toolkit.

Hardware Accelerated Streaming

For low-latency video streaming support with hardware acceleration, we added the AV1 and H.265 video codecs. Find these in the Streaming App > Settings > Codec section.

Rendering Enhancements

Find support for an option that enhances visual quality at native resolution and only denoises and antialiases, support for the X-Rite and Substance Sheen parameter, the reduction of faceting to hide low tessellation when using subsurface scattering, and more.

Live Reference Enhancements

With Live Reference, Alias environments, curves, and variant data can now be brought into VRED. Like with other live referenced content, when either of these is modified in Alias, the VRED user will be notified.

Vulkan Improvements

We have added support for OpenColorIO and grading and display cluster auxiliary visualizations, and made some additional improvements to Vulkan.

General Improvements

Find a Reference Node option in the Scenegraph filter list, a conversion option for the deprecated velvet and woven cloth materials, a way to abort the import of a specific file, a depth buffer for proper reprojection in VR when raytracing, and an environment variable to overwrite the behavior of the Python Sandbox.