Released: 2026-03-20

Tracing

  • New: Tracing toolset: a new toolset with tools to trace and analyze neuron structures
  • New: VR Trace tool: assisted tracing and editing of neurons
  • New: VR Analyze tool: analyze and color neuron structures in VR by applying specialized object styles and show the style legend

VR Stories

  • Comeback of the VR Stories panel, in a simplified shape. Easy movie creation by recording and editing in VR and export VR movies from desktop

Surfaces

  • Comeback of the Surfaces panel: Import and register Surface meshes (OBJ files) on desktop and in VR

OpenXR

  • Updated: support for Meta Quest runtimes

2D Viewer

  • selected objects are visualized with a yellow outline now in the 2D Viewer
  • Improved: selection behavior (left click + drag a rectangle is now updated live)

Data Handling

  • Improved: native CZI handling
  • Improved: well plate import in general and especially for PE files, LaVision FastTile Blaze, compressed HDF5, Yokogawa, Aperio-SVS
  • Export / Import objects as labeled images or mask images directly from arivis Pro VR (no need to swithc to arivis Pro anymore)

Objects

  • New: ability of the Objects dialog to represent feature values as colorful bars normalized to min / max of the Summary (if enabled)

General

  • a link to request a trial license is available right from the License Selection dialog
  • arivis Pro VR can be installed from the ZEISS Microscopy Installer (ZMI)
  • numerous additional bug fixes and stability improvements
  • arivis Pro VR help content is provided by the ZEISS help viewer now
  • New: the Preview Features dialog allows you to activate and test early results for newly added features

System requirements

  • supported & tested platform is Windows 11
  • Fully compatible with ZEISS arivis Pro 4.5