Updates

Improvements:

• Fixed an issue with unresponsive meeting UI

• Update messages in the start panel and AI camera

• Minor bug fixes

With Arkio 2.0, we are taking design collaboration to a whole new level, whether you’re doing design ideation, design reviews, or immersive client presentations. Many areas of Arkio have been re-imagined. Check out the following video to see what’s new for this release.

New features:

• New AI camera tool with AI renders and image gallery

• Create collaborative image frames from the AI camera

• Voice transcription for notes, set priority and assign ownership

• Export notes as shareable issues to Arkio Cloud

• Toggle layer visibility on Revit, Rhino, SketchUp and Archicad models

• New file manager with scene previews, new layout options, search, sorting and per-scene history to restore previous scene versions

• Native Archicad 27 & 28 plugins for Windows and Mac

• Presentation mode in meetings

• Scene sharing via Arkio Cloud

• New primitive round shapes

• Table UI in VR gives access to scene environment settings

Improvements:

• Improved wall and component drawing

• Various improvements to large model support and increased import stability

• Streamlined plugin import and cloud sharing workflows

• Enhanced main menu with more accessible extras drawer

• New UI for non-VR devices

• Updated Arkio store panel

• Improved review panel with auto-generated note and frame views

• Gather meeting users to front, back or center

• Toggle local view-only mode

• Ambient occlusion toggle on all devices

• Multi-language text input fields

• Updated Meta avatars

• Multimodal input with ability to use controllers and hands simultaneously

• Various usability and stability improvements

Arkio improvements:

• Logitech MX INK stylus input improvements

• Fixed an import issue for Unity originated files

• Improved performance for meetings with +8 users

• Apple App Store restore purchase button added

• Minor bug fixes

New Arkio features:

• New Logitech MX INK stylus support

• Notification for recently updated imports

• Sort imports by date, name and type

• Autodesk Construction Cloud (BIM360) export portal added to Arkio cloud

• Imperial unit dimensions and snap increments

• Teleport around the table edge to face the model in god scale

• Press the thumbstick up/down to use scrollbars in Arkio

Arkio improvements:

• Improved occlusion and performance for large imported models

• Colocation stability and UX improvements

• Improved wall creation

• Cloud link simplification for Arkio cloud groups and ACC

• Imported model placement/update simplifications

• Prevent Z-fighting for floors and ceilings of imported models

• Show outline hands instead of Meta avatar arms

• Teleport from both controllers

• Other bug fixes and improvements

Arkio improvements:

• Resource download speed improvements

• Loading more GLB data formats

• Additional dimension line improvements

• Reintroduced mm and cm placement units for imported models

• Imported model units too small/large warnings

• Fixed issue for some models and textures that failed to import

• Automatic meeting reconnection

• Improved sun shadows

• Proportional guide edit improvements

• Arkio update available notifications

• Performance improvements

• Minor bug fixes

Plugin improvements:

• Correct export file size calculated in Revit plugins

• Rhino 8 plugin support

• Rhino export speed and detail improvements

• Fixed Rhino custom material export issues

• Fixed various Rhino export issues

New Arkio features:

• 2-point creation mode for primitive shapes

• Angular snapping during creation

• Dynamic guide system

• Proportional scale snap increments

• Share and bookmark Arkio cloud group weblinks

• Basic reflections for glass materials

• Contextual tooltips on controller buttons

Arkio improvements:

• Auto reduction of large textures to load more photogrammetry files on mobile

• Improved gestures for hand tracking mode

• Co-location and anchor stability improvements

• Cross version voice in Arkio meeting rooms

• Increased export detail level for Revit plugins

• Support for loading additional OBJ and GLB data formats

• Fixed some imported models always loading in meters

• Download speed improvements

• Automatic filtering of invisible and smaller guides

• Various guide system and dimension line improvements

Arkio improvements:

• Start with a new scene after Arkio crashed to prevent startup issues

• Improved stability and stickiness while moving geometry in complex intersections

• Improved performance for large models from far away viewpoints

• Easier to break out of locked mode in mixed reality god scales

• New bracelet design also for non-Quest devices (Steam and WMR headsets)

• Fixed colocation microphone muting issue on mobile devices

• Fixed an issue with the input field for cloud groups

• Fixed an issue causing lower framerate on PC VR

• Fixed map 3D buildings not updating in AR mode

• Minor UI updates

Plugin improvements:

• Sketchup 2024 plugin support added

New Arkio features:

• Pin geometry to prevent accidental edits

• Co-location group for easier gathering and locking in mixed reality

• Auto gathering of meeting participants to host from wristband or meeting settings

• Up to 2x larger model imports on all devices

• Local exports from Rhino/Revit/Sketchup/Unity plugins now directly open Arkio on PC

• 6 new sample scenes, welcome video and starting scene

• Automatically open the import tab when a new resource is loaded

• Share mixed reality anchors from the host user to other co-located users

• Automatically mute people in a co-location group

• Remove mixed reality anchors using the delete tool

Arkio improvements:

• Better performance and more details are shown for large imported models

• New wristband UI and controllers on Quest and other devices

• Right and left hand start with no tool selected

• Main menu updated (pin and grouping as main tools)

• Simplified import panel for 3D and image placement

• Load imports as pinned/movable in the current/new scene

• Improved loading of less common GLB/GLTF/OBJ file conversions

• Improved download loading bars

• Improved boundaryless safety blending

• Easier grouping of objects (select by centroid and auto-wrapped)

• Improved performance and smoothness while editing/moving shapes

• Smoothed the laser for more precise editing on distance

• Enhanced teleporter allowing teleporting across larger distances

• Improved outlines cages of shapes in complex scenes

• Tutorial scenes are now available on all devices

• Mixed Reality loading screen on Quest

• Clear & restart button in settings to reimport and troubleshoot issues with imported files

• Various UI and UX improvements

Plugin improvements:

• Skip exporting the green ground geometry if no map or void is active

• Revit 2025 support

• Export geometry from Revit families to Arkio

• Import Arkio files directly inside Revit families

• New Revit import option, Arkio solids geometry can now be loaded as named generic families

• Fixed Revit plugin UI and issues for large-resolution screens

• Fixed Rhino plugin UI and material export issues

• 2x Faster Sketchup exports

• Unity imports can now be pinned or movable

• Fixed Unity plugin compatibility issue for Unity 2023