April 24th, 2024

Major updates

Arkio 1.7.0

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