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Arkio

Description

Arkio is a collaborative design tool that enables you to easily sketch buildings, interiors and urban plans with others in VR as well as on PCs, tablets and phones. Arkio features a unique volumetric modeling kernel built for VR and mobile devices, making the modeling experience feel closer to physical model-making than traditional 3D apps. In Arkio you can either start modeling from scratch or import your own 3D models and 2D images, then sketch on top of them and export your work back to Rhino or native Revit geometry. Arkio has been optimized for the Oculus Quest and features experimental hand tracking, enabling you to do all the main modeling operations using your hands instead of controllers. – Collaborate and design with up to 16 people in the same scene – 8 powerful and easy to use volumetric modeling tools – Work from any scale, use your hands in model scale or move things around at human scale – Import and draw on 3D models from design tools like Revit, Rhino and SketchUp

What Works Well

This app allows for multiple users to easily create and collaborate around detailed models without any prior experience building in a 3D virtual space.

Discipline

  • Architecture & Environmental Design
  • Engineering

Keywords

3D modeling, collaboration, design, group work, informal learning, presentation, visualization

Source

Arkio

Level of Interactivity

What does this mean?

The Level of Interactivity indicates how many interactive features an experience has.

 

For instance, a Level 1 would be a more passive experience where you will be able to look around freely, but you will not be triggering or interacting with things in the environment.  A Level 2 will provide some level of interactivity but only very basically, such as being able to move between different scenes in the experience. A Level 3 will start to incorporate some more complex interactions using a remote or controller to trigger things within the scenes. A Level 4 would be a fully interactive experience but something you are still guided through. Finally, a Level 5 would be a fully interactive experience that gives you complete control of how to use it.

Platform

Oculus Quest

Large Group Scale
Class Scale Use (≈24)