October 24th, 2023

Major updates

Arkio 1.6.0

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