## Arkio

### Arkio 1.6.0

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### **New Arkio features:**

- (Beta) Load large models up to 5-10 million triangles on mobile devices
- Co-located mixed reality meetings (shared spatial anchors)
- Boundaryless mixed reality (passthrough fades in when walking)
- New review panel with saved views, BIM data, view settings and scene statistics
- New rendering modes, X-ray, programs and white mode
- 5 New tutorial scenes and videos
- File open dialog to imports on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
- Additional plus pack content (40 new materials and props)

### **Arkio improvements:**

- Improved Arkio resources processing speed, up to 20x faster imports
- Grouping added as a main menu tool
- Smoother UI panel movement in VR
- Teleport through vertical surfaces for easier navigation through doors and windows
- Default startup in Mixed Reality on Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 3
- Memory and performance optimizations on all devices
- Rendering optimizations when loading heavy scenes
- Fixed various graphical issues on PC, Quest and mobile versions
- Better performance with color passthrough active (mixed reality on Quest Pro and 3)
- Spatial anchor stability improvements
  - Better tracking and recovery of anchor positions
  - Erase current saved anchors in scenes (settings)
  - Improved room import stability
- Improved Arkio cloud and model-sharing stability
  - Faster sharing of large files in meetings
  - Avoid downloading cloud files that failed or are too large for the device
  - Improved loading error messaging in VR and non-VR
  - Avoid loading more than 24 images at once (for upload mistakes)
- Sticky notes, placement, workings and visibility enhancements
- Update UI and progress dialogs for Revit, Rhino and SketchUp plugins
- Meta and Arkio avatar improvements
  - Fixed Meta avatar initialization issues
  - Meta avatar fully visible in PC hybrid mode
  - Prevent crashes when losing Internet connections with active Meta avatars
  - Arkio avatar preview in settings
  - New floating hand style (Arkio avatar)
  - Hands mapped to Quest controller buttons
- Fixed issues for some models exporting to GLB and Revit
- Fixed various graphical issues for Arkio materials and textures
- Additional tooltips in flat UI
- Various UI consistency updates and fixes

### **Plugin improvements:**

- Added plugin for Revit 2024 and Sketchup 2023
- Improved SketchUp plugin speed and stability, up to 10x faster exports
- Added transparency when exporting new Revit PBR materials
- Added support for collecting textures from Revit Render appearance texture paths
