2024

Oct

Introducing support for Apple Vision Pro

Features

With Apple Vision Pro, Zoho Lens delivers a hands-free AR experience that allows technicians to receive real-time visual assistance, collaborate remotely, and troubleshoot complex problems efficiently. The expanded field of view and intuitive interface provide greater clarity and precision, making it easier to inspect, diagnose, and resolve issues while staying fully engaged in the task at hand.

External Technician invite Support for Android Application

Enhancements

Whether it’s a complex technical challenge or a need for extra support, you can now bring external experts into your session, boosting problem-solving efficiency and ensuring that issues are addressed faster than ever. Expand your support capabilities by allowing external technicians to access the same powerful AR tools, annotations, and remote diagnostics that Zoho Lens offers.

Sep

Provided bulk invitation support for admins

Enhancements

With this enhancement, admins can add up to 1,000 email addresses in a single invite while inviting technicians to their organization, eliminating the need to send individual invites to multiple technicians manually.

Added signup option on Android app

Enhancements

We've rolled out native signup support for Android mobile users. New users, after installing the Zoho Lens Android app, can now sign up for Zoho Lens directly from the app.

Facilitating quick feedback with emojis

Enhancements

Customers, who join a session from the Zoho Lens Android app, will now be prompted with three emoji options to provide quick ratings for the app and add feedback on their in-app experience at the end of a session. This feedback will be used to enhance the product and improve user experience.

Aug

Added preview option to Files module

Enhancements

This major enhancement allows you to preview your session notes, recordings, or chat directly within the Lens portal and decide which files to download for audit or as a reference.

Jul

Enhanced the virtual pointer feature

Enhancements

This major enhancement allows you to use the virtual pointer with improved precision and experience seamless collaborative sessions right from your Android and iOS devices.

Jun

Provided app support in Saudi Arabia data centers

Zoho Lens is now supported in Saudi Arabia data centers, in compliance with regional data protection laws. Users signing in from the Saudi Arabian region can have their data stored in these centers for enhanced security.

Improved default streaming quality

Enhancements

With crucial enhancements to the overall video quality, participants can view the stream in the best resolution under different bandwidth conditions. We've also provided default HD support for all users.

May

Introducing the Virtual Pointer for your remote assistance session

Features

The Virtual Pointer is an annotation tool that allows a technician to direct participants’ attention to a specific area on the live stream while in a session. Unlike other annotations, it comes tagged with the remote user's name and fades away automatically after a few seconds. Learn more.

Introducing the Swap camera for technicians in iOS

Features

Technicians streaming from their iOS device will now be able to swap between their back- and front-facing cameras during a remote assistance session.

Experience default HD streaming in your remote assistance session

Enhancements

When a customer streams their camera feed from their iOS device, the remote expert can view the live visuals in higher resolution because the HD option has been enabled by default.

Added approval workflow in iOS for secondary technicians

Enhancements

As an extra layer of security, secondary technicians who are joining the session with an invite from the host (the primary technician) will now be allowed to join the session only after the host approves their join request. This workflow is currently enabled for the iOS app.

Addressed heating issues and battery concerns for iOS

Enhancements

With improved battery utilization and performance, you can conduct your remote assistance session for longer periods of time without overheating your iOS device.

Apr

Zoho Lens partners with Samsung

Through this partnership, the industrial workforce can now use Zoho Lens to provide visual remote assistance right from their rugged Samsung devices.

Mar

Enhanced session security and scalability

Enhancements

We've elevated our security standards by upgrading our encryption protocols. This will create a safer session environment and boost scalability to support multiple concurrent sessions.

Feb

Get precise dimensions of remote objects with AR Measurement

Features

We've introduced a new augmented reality tool to facilitate your remote assistance sessions: AR measurement. You can use this tool during a session to measure distances, lengths, and other dimensions with ease. Learn more.

Experience low-latency streaming with peer-to-peer connections

Enhancements

This crucial enhancement significantly reduces latency and improves the video quality in your Lens sessions by establishing a direct connection between the technician and the customer's device once they join the session.

2023

Dec

Improved overall usability and security

Enhancements

With crucial enhancements to our existing framework and security measures, you'll now be able to maximize your usage of Zoho Lens, experience better video streaming, and provide secure support in your remote assistance sessions.

Nov

Preserve snapshots in any situation

Enhancements

The upgrade to the snapshot feature boosts session experience with optimized browser performance, where technicians will be able to retain and preview snapshots under any circumstance during a remote assistance session.

Oct

Introducing advanced chat to your remote assistance session

Features

Along with sending messages in a session chat, participants in a remote assistance session can now share files, images, or presentations, as well as react to messages with emojis, edit them, or delete them at any time during the session. Learn more

Sep

Improved customer data protection

Enhancements

In compliance with the new SCC guidelines set by the European Commission, we've established standardized workflows to access customer data based on customer requests alone. To ensure better transparency and accountability, we've enabled tracking for who has accessed the data, for what purpose, and which customer's data has been accessed.

Added an "Invite technician" option for mobile users

Enhancements

Technicians who have initiated a remote assistance session from the Lens mobile app can now invite other technicians or guest technicians to their session using the Invite technician option on their console. This option has been enabled on the Android app.

Added an "End session" option in the Session tab

Enhancements

Admins and technicians can end idle sessions directly from the Session tab in their organization portal without having to search through multiple tabs in their browser.

Enabled files download for multi-org users

Enhancements

Admins who have multiple organization portals on one account can seamlessly download recordings, notes, chats, or snapshots of any session from the portal of their choice.

Added organization name to invitation mail

Issue-Fix

When sending organization invite mails to new admins or technicians, an admin will now be able to add the organization name at the end of their invite.

Aug

Enhanced security for better data protection

Enhancements

Along with MFA, admins will be asked to sign in again when accessing sensitive information, such as organizational data, to prevent misuse.

Jul

Configured links sent to technicians

Issue-Fix

Technicians who click the organization invite link will be prompted to accept or decline the invitation, which will prevent the technician from accidentally joining another organization. Technicians who run an organization as super admins can also join a session from another organization.

Import users from Zoho Desk to Zoho ServicePlus

Enhancements

Organizations that add users to Zoho Desk in the initial stages can migrate user data to Zoho Service Plus and sync it with other remote support tools.

Incorporated file transfer option in chat

Features

Technicians can use the chat option to share files with participants in the session. Lens supports a wide variety of file types, such as audio, video, and document formats. Learn more.

Added Flashlight option to technician console

Features

The Flashlight option that was previously available only for iOS is now available to technicians remotely initiating or joining a session from a browser with an iOS user.

Improved session feedback experience

Issue-Fix

Technicians who were facing difficulty in adding notes at the end of the session will be able to do so with ease after this enhancement.

Jun

Enable "Freeze" option for all technicians

Enhancements

With this enhancement, technicians in a collaborative session can have more control over freezing the camera stream. Any technician joining the session from the browser can concurrently freeze or unfreeze the camera stream, even if the initial freeze was done by another technician.

Witness elevated precision in OCR

Enhancements

By incorporating the iOS Vision Framework, we've improved the effectiveness of live text, providing you with the most accurate result every time. Similarly, a few tweaks have been made to boost reliability of the scan results on Android.

May

Breaking connectivity barriers with offline recording

Features

Offline recording is a feature available to all users on the Zoho Lens mobile app. Without joining a session or having an internet connection, you can preview, record issues, and store files on your device. Learn more.

Improved scheduling sessions from Zoho Desk

Bug-Fixes

We've made a few tweaks so technicians can continue scheduling sessions from Zoho Desk without a hassle.

Enhanced session security

Bug-Fixes

We've provided an extra layer of security to your remote assistance sessions. This ensures you have a safer virtual environment while you provide technical support to your customers.

Simplified organization accessibility

Bug-Fixes

Technicians in multiple organizations who faced difficulties switching from one organization to another can now switch between them directly even if they do not have the necessary access inside the organization.

Apr

View AR comments on smart glasses

Enhancements

The AR comments option has been enabled for smart glass users, which they can use to view a technician's comments when the technician is streaming from an AR-supported mobile device. Learn more.

Stay in session during calls on iOS devices

Enhancements

Customers can attend phone calls on their iOS device without leaving a remote assistance session. The session is kept on hold while the customer is on another call, and they can pick up from where they left off once they're back.

Improved overall session experience

Issue-Fix

Improved livestreaming video quality and tweaked session tools like QR, live text scan, snapshots, and annotations for a better session experience.

Mar

Experience intuitive communication with AR Comments

Features

Complement your annotations using AR Comments. Equip yourself with this intuitive tool to convey operative instructions to participants in a session.Learn more.

Invite a guest technician to your session

Features

Technicians who aren't part of your organization can join your remote assistance session with a special invite.

Introducing Selection View for all participants

Features

Each participant can select an annotation without disabling other participants' selections, enabling multiple selections to be visible on the camera stream.

Feb

Antispam monitoring

Enhancements

Enabled antispam monitoring in backend process to check and prevent spam user signup.

Jan

Introducing Vuzix smart glass support

Integrations

Added Vuzix to the Zoho Lens smart glass ecosystem (along with Realwear and Epson) to help you go hands free while live streaming your field of vision for increased productivity and faster resolution rates.

SDK enhancements

Enhancements

Incorporated QR and OCR features in Lens Mobile SDK, empowering you to scan any QR code, barcode or text directly from your custom Lens app.

Session enhancements

Enhancements

Configured Action log viewer to keep track of file management activities like deleting session notes, snapshots or session recordings.

Customers receiving firewall notifications during a session need to configure their firewall settings for improved live streaming and session performance. Learn more.

Made enhancements and bug fixes for uninterrupted sessions at lower bandwidths.

2022

Dec

Rebranding in session invite links

Enhancements

Enhanced session invite links for organizations using custom domains. Organizations that have rebranded Zoho Lens can now send session invites links that include their custom domain.

Nov

Scan any QR/barcode with Zoho Lens

Features

Technicians and customers can get product details from a barcode or QR code in an instant by scanning them during a session. With this feature, users can eliminate back-and-forth communication over product details, and resolve issues faster. Learn more.

SMS Enhancement

Enhancements

SMS session invitations from your organization will be sent with the Zoho Lens name. Organizations that have preferred languages other than English can send SMS invites without any difficulty.

Improved session and file management

Enhancements

Annotations placed by technicians and customers will remain stable. Technicians and Admins can select and delete multiple screenshots at once from the File Manager section.

Oct

Improved Live Text scan

Issue-Fix

Enhancements and bug fixes were done to improve Live Text scan success rate for mobile devices.

Redesigned Live Text UI

Enhancements

The interface has been redesigned with an additional option to send scanned text via chat for enhanced user experience.

Sep

Live text support

Features

Live text support is based on optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which recognizes characters inscribed on tools, machines, and other equipment. After they have been identified, these characters can be copied and pasted into any other application. Learn more.

Improved snapshot freeze speed

Enhancements

Enhancements that help to reduce latency when capturing and freezing screenshots during a live lens session to reduce the latency to less than 5 seconds. Users can now freeze a snapshot during a session and share it with everyone in the session.

Delete Snapshot from viewer

Enhancements

Customers can also delete a snapshot taken by accident during a session. These screenshots will not be saved in the files as well.

Aug

Session enhancements

Enhancements

We have reduced session latency, enhanced the communication stack, and quashed a few bugs in annotations, snapshots and SDK.

Jul

Technician camera sharing support

Features

Technicians can assist their customers by sharing their live camera feed from both their desktops and mobile devices.

Data cleanup setting

Enhancements

Super Admins can now enable data cleanup in the Settings section.

Jun

Zoom function

Features

The Zoom function is now available for end users, including those on the Zoho Lens Android application. Customers can zoom in on objects during their remote Lens sessions to communicate more effectively with their technicians.

Apart from this, we have rolled out server updates to streamline the communication flow and improve efficiency during remote sessions.

May

CRM integration

Integrations

We have integrated Zoho Lens with Zoho CRM. With this integration, you can initiate immediate remote assistance sessions from the Contacts or Leads modules in Zoho CRM.

Assist-Lens integration

Enhancements

New users who signed up for Assist could access Lens by default but it was not the case for existing users. With this new enhancement, the Assist-Lens integration has been enabled for existing users and they can start augmented reality sessions right from their organization portal.

Apr

API Integration

Integrations

Our major update this month is the API integration, which allows you to use the remote assistance capabilities of Zoho Lens in your applications and websites.

Assist/ Live Camera Assistance integration:

Integrations

We've integrated Zoho Lens with Zoho Assist in the form of Live Camera Assistance. Live Camera Assistance offers guidance to a person on the ground by viewing their live camera stream from their smartphone or smart glass. It uses AR to provide remote assistance sessions.

Rebranding tweaks

Issue-Fix

We've got rid of few bugs to ease your rebranding process and improved the user interface of our custom domain access page.

Session enhancements

Enhancements

We've also released updates to increase the HD resolution from 720p to 1080p on Android, and enhanced session tools.