We’re excited to announce the release of VALT 6.5. Built around direct customer feedback and future-proof engineering, this update delivers stronger performance, smarter integrations, and more flexibility than ever before.
Whether you use VALT for healthcare simulation, education, corporate training, or research—this is our most robust, user-focused release to date.
New Feature Highlights
Outlook Calendar Sync
VALT now integrates with Microsoft Outlook, allowing you to schedule a room (location) linked to an Outlook email directly from VALT.
✔ Requires Microsoft AD + Azure
✔ Each VALT room must have a linked email in AD
✔ Users must have matching email addresses
Plan, book, and manage sessions directly through Outlook—no more double-scheduling.
VALT Cue Session Builder (Now Inside VALT!)
No longer limited to setting up a circuit in the VALT Cue App on an iPad. You can now build VALT Cue sessions directly in the VALT UI.
- Available to admin-level users
- Visual interface makes building circuits easier and seeing sessions more transparent.
Audio That Keeps Going
One of our most-requested improvements: Audio now continues to play while switching browser tabs. This helps ensure smooth, uninterrupted monitoring during multi-view observation.
AVMIX Module
Capture audio directly through a camera feed—ideal for setups where hardwiring isn’t possible.
Multiple cameras in the room? Want the audio from one and the view from the other? Assign that camera with the audio from another. Want to listen to one room and watch from another? Associate the audio with the camera you want to observe from.
Our developers still recommend hardwired installations for reliability when feasible.
Template Import & Export
Quickly replicate setups, upload standard templates, and share customized templates across rooms and installations.
Smarter Markers for Review & Debrief
- Duration markers mark start & end segments, clip specific video segment.
- Transcription markers allow one-click conversion to quickly timestamp searched keywords.
Perfect for training feedback, debriefing, and performance evaluation.
Refined User Experience
- Help Page Redesign – custom tiles, drag and drop to reorder, and delete standard tiles.
- Improved touch and mobile UI
- Multi-room preparation – select rooms and start sessions all at once
- Targeted announcements – send updates to specific users or groups
- Improvements to characters in form fields, SSO and notifications make usability more seamless.
System Upgrades
Behind the scenes, VALT just got way more powerful.
To improve system reliability and streamline support, we’ve completed a major backend overhaul:
- MySQL → MariaDB conversion for consistent OS maintenance and support between Docker containers.
- Enhanced security patching across all Docker containers
- Improved backup technology for data protection and faster recovery
- New “Migrator” Docker for seamless upgrades moving forward
- Software and environment versions now tracked separately for clearer maintenance
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Early alpha support for WebRTC video streaming: Now optimized to feel more like making a phone call—fast, direct, low-latency.
These system-level improvements help ensure future updates are faster, more stable, and easier to manage.
Final Thoughts
VALT 6.5 isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a shift toward more secure, scalable, and user-driven video observation. It improves reliability today while laying the technical foundation for even greater innovation ahead.
Whether you're looking for improved scheduling, better feedback tools, smoother audio/video handling, or future-ready architecture—VALT 6.5 delivers.
Ready to Upgrade?
Stay tuned for an email to schedule an upgrade or speak with your Intelligent Video Solutions representative to request and plan an upgrade.
