Say Hello!
General
- community
Welcome to the Arkio Community! <br>Come in, make yourself at home! <br>If you’ve made it this far, why not give us a lil’ hello and intro on who you are? Maybe tell…read more |
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Mar 11 |
Midterm Explorations
Education
- community
Starting from the same three reference points; A, B, and C, each student developed a completely unique spatial journey in Arkio. What began as a shared framework quickly transformed into a diverse set of interpretations …read more |
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Mar 27 |
Designing Movement: Virtual Paths in Arkio
Education
- community
Last year in the Reality Check course at the Boston Architectural College, students explored architecture in mixed reality using Arkio through a midterm assignment focused on designing a continuous virtual path. The g…read more |
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Feb 10 |
Arkio to Enscape!
Guides
- guide
We got a fresh new How to___ with Arkio video for ya’ll! This time we are covering how you can utilize your Arkio models for rendering visualization with Enscape <br>Check it out! <br> <br> <br> <br><br>Shout out to @Missy f…read more |
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Feb 2025 |
The landscape sample through architecture
Challenges
- 02-build-beyond
In line with my research on hypercontextualization methods, this architectural excerpt demonstrates how framing can influence the perception of a place. The inability to see the horizon and distinguish the bou…read more |
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Feb 2025 |
About the Guides category
Guides
Learn about best practices and workflows for Arkio. Are you missing more extensive instructions on our Support Pages? Let us know and we can make it into a guide! |
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Dec 2024 |
Placing and working with images
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
The most exciting and anticipated moment for anyone’s week has arrived, pro-tip Friday! <br>This time around we are showing how you can incorporate images into your models. Whether you’re sketching o…<br><br> read more |
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Oct 2024 |
Version 1.9 is Live!
News
- community,
- announcement
Arkio 1.9 is out in the wild! Not only does this update bring full support for stylus, but it also introduces a range of UI improvements. Let us know what you think <br><br> <br> <br> <br><br>Get the full rel…read more](https://community.arkio.is/t/version-1-9-is-live/242) |
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Sep 2024 |
Modeling w/ style using the MX Ink
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
[Another Friday protip coming in for the crew! Here we are taking a look how the new stylus feature works and how it brings the familiarity of pen and paper into Arkio. |
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Sep 2024 |
Move and Rotate like a Pro!
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
[Protip incoming! This time we went back to the basics of how to move and rotate an object |
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Sep 2024 |
What should be our next protip?
Ideas
- pro-tip
Hi all - we’ve been cooking up some short form guides that we’ve been posting as pro-tip. These videos are typically something we put together as a response to users asking questions for workflows or different tech…<br><br> read more |
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Sep 2024 |
Working with Groups
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
Another Friday pro-tip ready for the community This time we are showing off the power of groups in Arkio! |
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Sep 2024 |
Arkio in Education - LIVE Event
News
- community
Hey there peeps! <br>Join our live stream on 2024-09-05T17:00:00Z (UTC)→2024-09-05T18:00:00Z (UTC) to hear from educational leaders about how Arkio is transforming the way we teach and learn about design and spatial quality…read more |
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Sep 2024 |
Setting up a Meeting in Arkio!
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
Another Friday and another Pro Tip! This time we’re wrapping up this week with a quick guide on how to start an Arkio meeting . Meetings are a quick way to connect your virtual space w…read more |
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Sep 2024 |
Recording videos from your headset
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
Friday is here, which means another pro-tip! We’ve had a few users ask how we record our mixed reality content and the settings we use—so here it is! <br><br>The process is very simple: <br><br>Hit the meta quest button on your cont…<br><br> read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Locking position with anchors in mixed reality
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip,
- mixed-reality
A lil quiet in here lately but let’s change that with another Friday pro-tip. To kick off the weekend we wanted to shed some light on spatial anchors and how to utilize them with the lock position command …<br><br> read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Rhino to Arkio through the Arkio Cloud
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
Another pro-tip coming in for the peeps! Cloud groups are your key to effortlessly bring your models into Arkio—whether on desktop or headset. So here is a handy guide to help you get up and running with a bi-directional…<br><br> read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Preliminary Models in MR
Studio
- made-with-arkio
I’m excited to share my latest passion project: designing architectural features in VR using Arkio, all set in the great outdoors! <br> <br> <br>At first, I didn’t know what VR was, and I was always very skeptical whe…read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Masking your view with Mixed Reality
Guides
- guide,
- pro-tip
Happy Furday ya’ll! To wrap up the work week, we put together a quick post on how to use the passthrough material to mask your view. I’ve been getting a lot of questions on how we setup our mixed reality scenes, h…read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Revit meets VR
Studio
- made-with-arkio
Image 1: Exterior View (Render in Revit) <br>Seeing my Revit model in Arkio for the first time was an exhilarating experience. Walking through my design at a 1:1 scale brought a new level of immersion and understanding. …read more |
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Aug 2024 |
Digital Preservation in Volterra 🏟️
News
- announcement,
- blog
Hey there arkitects! We got a new blog post to share with you, this time @dace tells the tale of his time in Volterra during the digital preservation workshop. From the strategic capturing of differe…read more |
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Aug 2024 |
[#MadeInArkio - Verified in Field w/ Gael Ranc
News
- community,
- vif,
- spotlight
We’ve got a new series incoming for ya’ll… Introducing our #MadeInArkio series! This series will aim to share the inspiring success stories of our community members and leaders. <br>First up: @GaelR, an Architect …read more |
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Jul 2024 |
[Open Blocks goes open
General
- community,
- xr
If you’ve been in the xr creator community for a while you might remember the modeling tool Blocks from google. I remember getting really into creating worlds with it (I’ll need to dig up some sketches) but Blocks went s…read more |
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Jul 2024 |
Modeling a Home !
News
- community
[ICYMI - We modeled a home! For the release of Arkio 1.8 we wanted to showoff what’s new by modeling a home from scratch. Check it out! |
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Jul 2024 |
Announcing Arkio 1.8🎉
News
Incoming @ArkioNews, Version 1.8 is out n the wild!! <br><br> <br> <br> <br><br>The Arkio crew has been hard at work cooking up new features and improvements, and we’re excited to hear what you think! I’m e…read more |
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Jul 2024 |
Winners of Build Beyond
News
- community,
- announcement,
- design-challenge
Let’s kick off the week with some exciting news with the announcement of the 02-build-beyond design challenge. <br><br> 1st place @GaelR <br>The landscape sample through architecture <br><br> 2nd place @Carlo…<br><br> read more |
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Jul 2024 |
Build Beyond Feedback
Ideas
- community,
- learning,
- documentation
Thinking about the recent design challenge, 02-build-beyond, we wanted to gather feedback from you about the process of submitting to the design challenge / modeling in mixed reality. We are actively working on improv…<br><br> read more |
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Jul 2024 |
[Build Beyond Highlights
News
- community,
- design-challenge
Closing off this week with a highlight from some of the incredible entries from the Build Beyond Design Challenge! Check out the some of the ways our community is modeling with mixed reality …read more |
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Jul 2024 |
Who’s going to NXT Build 2024?! 🏗️
News
- community
Our crew will be attending NXT BLD in London this year! If you’re going to be attending as well, we would love to sync up! @Johan will be expo floor tomorrow starting at 8:30AM BST. Swing by, say…read more |
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Jun 2024 |
CHALLENGE[02] Build Beyond ReadMe
Challenges
- 02-build-beyond
@Community <br>Welcome to Arkio’s Design Challenge, episode 02! This challenge is going to be an exciting one, so lets dive right in <br>For challenge[02], Build Beyond, you will need to tap into Mixed …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
How to submit an entry for a design challenge
Challenges
Posting an entry to a design challenge is similar to how you would create a new topic on our community site. It’s a quick and easy process that can be done from mobile and desktop, the procedure is more or less the same …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
[Final day for Build Beyond
News
- community
hi peeps - some quick @StudioNews ! <br> <br> <br>Last day to submit your entry to our Build Beyond design challenge! Submissions close at 11:59pm ET. If you need any support from us, don’t hesitate to get in…read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Examples for Build Beyond 📽️
Challenges
- made-with-arkio,
- 02-build-beyond
Just in case a few you’re still on the hunt for Build Beyond inspo, we got you covered. We made a video that covers the different ways of approaching the design challenge and we highlighted three skill levels, …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Vote for Arkio for the AWE 2024 Auggie Awards!
News
- community
Hi peeps! <br>We recently were put in the running for an AWE Award! The AWE Award recognizes the most innovative companies and products in the immersive tech industry. This award is a testament to the har…read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Sell me this pen 🖋️Logitech MX ink for Arkio!
News
- community,
- announcement
Some exciting news to kick off the week with Logitech announced today the release of their new stylus, the MX ink. We’ve been working with their team to support this functionality in Arkio, the UX powers @Embla a…read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Staying in the loop with Groups
General
Another community site tip incoming <br>A great organization feature with discourse is the groups. We’ve been utilizing groups in Discourse as a way to: <br><br>Organize our users<br>Send out notifications to for …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
[Community Site Tips
General
Hi peeps! It’s been a few months since we moved over to Discourse from our other social forums and I’ve gotten a handful of questions around different navigation and posting things within the site. So I thought I would s…read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Studio Upgrades!
General
- community
ohhh yeah now our Studio channel is starting to look like a virtual-studio! I’ve been wanting to figure out a way to display the images in the topics from the Studio channel, it brings…<br><br> read more |
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Jun 2024 |
Mixed Reality Patio Model
Studio
- made-with-arkio
I took advantage of some good weather recently and took my headset outside for a walk to model something in a nearby park. I found a spot that was set back, a bit more open and has a simple pathway that wrapped around a …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
How to have a design work session with Arkio
Guides
- guide
Incoming content!<br>We’re excited to introduce our new series “How To __________ With Arkio” <br>We start off with… How to have design work sessions with Arkio …read more |
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Jun 2024 |
[Poll Time!
General
- community
Hi Arkitechs We got a question for the community! <br>What type of daily challenges do you face when using technology in design work sessions? Give us a vote below📩 <br>poll |
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Jun 2024 |
[Retreat to Iceland!
News
- community
Hey Arkitechs <br>Our team is meeting up IRL this week at the ArkioHQ in Reykjavik! It’s going to be an awesome chance for us to hang out, brainstorm, and just enjoy some incredible scenery together. It’s all abou…read more |
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May 2024 |
The Botanical Gardens
Challenges
- made-with-arkio,
- 01-here-to-there,
- selected
The Botanical Gardens: A new path opens new possibilities<br>The path you are following forks into two… one path to the left and one to the right, One path will lead you to safety and while the other can cause you confusion…read more |
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May 2024 |
Implementations that could be useful for Arkio
Ideas
- feature-request
A few questions, I’ve tried 1.7. The new UI for displaying certain settings on the wrist is very practical! And thank you very much for adding the large models, which will be very useful in my hypercontextualization syst…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
[Arkio 1.7 Released!
News
- community
Hai @Community, <br>Arkio 1.7 is finally out and ready to go! We’re excited to see what you create with these new features and we look forward to hearing your feedback! <br> <br>Visit our blog post to get the full scoop o…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
Meta Fabric
Challenges
- made-with-arkio,
- 01-here-to-there,
- selected
The intricately woven space was rapidly “hand” crafted by assembling simple blocks. This necessitated seamless manual construction at the actual scale within an immersive environment, taking into account block placement,…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
Celebrate the release of Arkio 1.7! (LIVE)
News
- community,
- event
Hi @Community! <br>Join us live on May 2nd to learn all about the next big update to Arkio! We can’t wait to show off all of the new features and improvements comes with this new release, along with some other secret nug…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
Endless Pathway
Studio
- made-with-arkio
The purpose of the endless pathway is to not only explore different ideas, but to express a certain feeling by embracing the sense of strange that can explore a new point of view. In order to embrace the sense of strange…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
Our new Welcome to Arkio(video)
News
- community
We’ve been cooking up some new content that helps explain what Arkio is and how it can be used . One of those items we’ve recently released is our new Welcome to Arkio video . This greets any new (or existi…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
Walking Building
Studio
- made-with-arkio
Some silly-cyber-buildings I made after seeing some of Ro’s work in the example scenes |
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Apr 2024 |
About the News category
News
Stay in the loop with any Arkio and community news! |
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Apr 2024 |
About the Challenges category
Challenges
[Want to put your Arkio skills to the test? <br>This category contains a list of different challenges, catalogued by tags |
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Apr 2024 |
Design Challenge-Here to There[01]
Challenges
- 01-here-to-there
Here to There This design challenge has ended! <br><br>For design challenge[01] you need to build a pathway that connects two locations of a site. It’s as simple as that! <br> <br>Prizes<br>Each sele…read more |
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Apr 2024 |
About the Studio category
Studio
From the simple sketches to full city creations, we want to see them! |
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Apr 2024 |
About the Ideas category
Ideas
Discuss ideas to improve Arkio. You can suggest and vote for improvements at feedback.arkio.is |
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76 |
Apr 2024 |
About the Help category
Help
[Need some help with Arkio? You’ve come to right place! |
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Apr 2024 |
About the General category
General
Want to share something that might not be Arkio focused? This is the spot! |
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Apr 2024 |