Johan Hanegraaf

Johan Hanegraaf

Arkio Team

Rotterdam

Johan's Website

Johan is Co-founder & Head of Product at Arkio. He was trained as an architect and engineer and strongly believes that immersive technologies will make our design tools more intuitive, collaborative and fun! Prior to Arkio, Johan was developing his own tools and new design technologies at Mecanoo architects. Recognition of his work made him a frequent speaker at industry conferences around the world.

Background:

Product

How Saddle River Day School, NJ, USA is Using Arkio

Education Feb 4

Welcome everyone! Good to hear about the progress you guys are making towards designing an entire city together using Arkio 🙌 Arkio can load large files with many polygons for your landscape designs; if you use a standalone Quest headset, some objects might show less detail for heavy 3D models. You…

VR house refurbishment

Ideas Jan 19

Sharing some nice feedback on Arkio here from a non-professional using Arkio to discuss their house refurbishment with the family:

After spending some time with Arkio and following this guide, I have completed a first version of the room layout / design for my client (son) using the VR version of…

Thank you for sharing your experiences

Education Jan 5

Thank you for sharing your experiences and these great examples, @Giridhar_Peddi! I see your students were collaborating on a tower design based on a reference image and floorplan. This is an excellent way to learn about the basics of modeling in Arkio together, as there are several ways to make sh…

Say Hello! 👋

General Dec 12, 2025

Welcome to the forum, Laura! Your use case of students collaborating on new urban designs sounds really inspiring. We’d love to hear more about this in our Education section to inspire and get tips from other educational users and us.

Textures from unity to arkio

Help Nov 19, 2025

Welcome to our forums, Thomas. Arkio’s Unity plugin converts your Unity scene to a GLB file for Arkio. You can also inspect this file for any missing textures at \Documents\Arkio\Import\Unity. Only standard Unity materials/shaders are exported by the plugin, so if you’re using different materials/…

Arkio 2.0 live event

News Nov 18, 2025

Watch the recording here to learn all about Arkio 2.0, our biggest release yet, featuring AI rendering, layers, Archicad support, collaborative frames, issue export, and more. During the live event special guest Anna Mytcul, Visualization Specialist at KPF, shared how KPF is transforming design wor…

Arkio 2.1 now available

News Nov 18, 2025

Arkio 2.1 builds upon our recent 2.0 release, further enhancing Arkio for design ideation, presentations, and reviews. This update brings key performance improvements, new integrations, and usability upgrades across all platforms.

New Navisworks plugin

We’ve added a new plugin for Navisworks.

Graphics broken when running from PC

Help Nov 17, 2025

Thanks for the extra info. Are any other users in our forum experiencing issues with Arkio in Link mode? We haven’t changed any rendering packages between 2.0 and 2.1 and we’re not seeing this on our Quest 3 on OS version 81, and Meta Horizon Link Version 83 on the PC so it seems like something spe…

Educational examples of Arkio

Education Nov 11, 2025

Arkio is used worldwide in various schools and classrooms, and we’d love to hear from our users about how they are using Arkio. We will begin by sharing some examples of our educational users when Arkio was still in its early access phase.

Cornell AAP

One of the first collaborative design workshops…

Research papers using Arkio

Education Nov 11, 2025

Over the last few years, we’ve had a number of students, postgraduates, and PhDs using Arkio for research on various topics that utilize Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. We’ve seen research focusing on the architectural design process, UX, and several other topics that highlight the benefits of sp…

Proportional scaling of imports to correct size

Guides Nov 3, 2025

Thanks for sharing the extra details, AR/MR would be your most direct way to validate the scale perception, as you can compare it to your actual environment. The Quest 2 is getting older, so the passthrough will be blurry, and the lenses have more distortion than the pancake lenses of the Quest 3. …

Modular design and working with 2D references

Guides Oct 30, 2025

This guide includes several small workflow tips to elevate your design skills with Arkio 2.0 to the next level. When working on more complex Arkio creations, you want to reuse design elements and work on parts of the building separately. It’s good practice to create your parts on movable Arkio pl…

How to place my floor plan onto the workspace table

Help Oct 29, 2025

Hi @Digital_Dr_Qro welcome to our forums, it’s great to hear you are enjoying Arkio so far! Loading reference images to draw 3D designs on in Arkio can best be done by loading the images to your device using the Arkio Cloud and then placing the images in the Arkio scene.