Johan Hanegraaf

Johan Hanegraaf is a moderator.

Background:

Product

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.

Discussions

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.

Sharing some nice feedback on Arkio

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.

Thank you for sharing your experiences

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.

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.

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...

Watch the recording here

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.

Arkio 2.1 now available

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.

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.

Arkio is used worldwide in various schools

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.

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.

Thanks for sharing the extra details

AR/MR would be your most direct way to validate the scale perception. The Quest 2 is getting older, and the passthrough will be blurry...

Hi Bruno

Perception of scale is highly dependent on your active scale in Arkio...

This guide includes several small workflow tips

When working on more complex Arkio creations, you want to reuse design elements and work on parts of the building separately.

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.

Hi Tomoaki

Welcome to the Arkio forum, and thanks for letting us know about this issue with exporting files from Revit via Arkio back to Unity.

The Beta version of the plugin

The Beta version of the plugin is 2.0.0.

Welcome to the community Whoneedsaroom

I’ve updated the support page with more details on how to restore your scenes from Arkio using history mode.

Hi Nath

Welcome to the Arkio community and great to hear about your experiences and feedback on Arkio so far!

Hi Craig

There were some issues with the cloud portal this weekend that prevented connecting new groups to the 1.9.1 version of Arkio. This is fixed now if you make a new cloud group from cloud.arkio.is.

Hi and welcome @guendalyn_yasol

You can check our support pages for videos and step-by-step instructions on how to load your Revit models to Arkio.

Hi Tpayne

Once your Revit model is loaded on Arkio on your desktop, the fastest way to share that model with your Quest is to join in the same Arkio meeting.