Scan and trace your spaces in mixed reality

You can import automatic room scans from your Quest, found under the boundary settings>Space setup this space scanning feature can also be accessed from Arkio's home>passthrough menu.

Meta's space setup tool allows you to automatically map walls, windows, doors and objects like cabinets directly when looking around the room, so manually drawing elements like in the above video is no longer needed if you are using the latest updates from Meta. After the space scan, you can import your current space into Arkio using the import room button in the home>passthrough menu.

This will import all your walls, windows, doors and furniture objects to Arkio geometry. Your floor, walls and ceiling will have the passthrough material and can be further adjusted or painted in other colors to put virtual materials on your real elements to start mixing realities.

When you load a room, your position will be locked to your physical environment. Teleporting up will switch you back to god scale and teleporting near your original marker will align you back to your room. You can always toggle the lock on your wristband to make adjustments to this locked alignment in case your environment feels misaligned with your geometry.

Note: Room Setup is a Meta Quest feature that sometimes fails to convert to Arkio geometry for complex room scans. You will then be teleported to the empty green table on import. In that case, you can best redo your room setup or model geometry directly in Arkio using the passthrough colored shapes.

The visibility of your boundary, walls and other room elements from space setup. Can show in your meta Quest boundary on other apps you can control and clear previous space setups from the Boundary settings>Space Setup tab in your Quest

Trace your geometry directly with Arkio geometry

You can also trace your environment directly in Arkio by teleporting on the green table, switching passthrough on, and drawing shapes with the passthrough material.

When you draw with this material in VR mode you will see white outlines around your objects. Turning the passthrough mode off will show the virtual environment like the green table and sky and disable the white outlines, but keep showing passthrough for objects painted with the passthrough material for higher immersion.

You can use Arkio's geometry to make passthrough floors, walls, ceilings or hollow shapes that fit your room or blend virtual objects with real objects painted with this passthrough material. Using Arkio's solid modeling tools, you can map out large and more complex environments and even entire cityscapes where virtual arkio or imported geometry can blend with real-world geometry.

Arkio’s shapes are flexible and can later be adjusted. So once you create these shapes, you can always fine-tune the sizes later using the edit tool from any scale.

Once your space is mapped out using passthrough volumes or imported geometry, you can manipulate your environment by painting objects, making holes into the real-world passthrough mapped objects, and doing many more fun experiments like removing and replacing parts of reality. You can visit our social and community pages for more examples of the possibilities.