August 20th, 2025

Major updates

Arkio 2.0

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