Ayy welcome @Hulksmash2004 ! Great to see another student from reality-check joining in. I really enjoyed seeing how your seasoned architecture skillzzzz translated into modeling techniques in Arkio 
Pumped to see another great modeler enter the community!
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Hello everyone! I’m not new to the world of Arkio, but I’m introducing myself now (better late than never).
My name is Gael, and I’ve been passionate about nature and landscapes since I was a child. I grew up in Lozère, a mountainous region in central France. I’m also a technology enthusiast, and these two passions led me to study architecture, where I discovered the immense potential of this discipline. I wanted to combine architecture, landscape, and technology. Since 2015, at the beginning of my architecture studies, I’ve been experimenting with virtual reality and Arkio for quite some time now. I wrote my research thesis on virtual reality topics titled
“VIRTUAL REALITY AS AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TOOL: What does virtual reality induce in the design practices of architects?”
Later, I continued my research on augmented reality and developed design methods: In short, it involves using AR to place virtual elements at the project site that influence the perception of the place and thus design architecture with very precise framings on the project site influenced by these virtual elements. I then proceed with a drone scan of the terrain and a 360 photo of the project site to continue doing the same thing but in VR, which offers more options for moving around in space. So, I’ve named it “hyper-contextualization.”
Today, I’m an architect at an agency in Paris but continue to develop this approach in my personal projects. I’ve presented this method in a YouTube video that traces the creation of one of my projects, which you can find here if you’re interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srvccfBgyjM&t=115s&ab_channel=GaelRancArchitecture.
Besides that, I love hiking and rock climbing, a sport I enjoy both indoors and outdoors! I love traveling for work or leisure and have been fortunate to visit China, Armenia, Canada, Mexico, and various places in Europe. I hope to add Japan and Norway to this list one day!
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Ah! @GaelR you snuck on by and I missed post. Welcome welcome!
What a list of amazing travels 
You gotta put Iceland on that list sooner or later.
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Hi all,
my name is Joerg Fischer/vr_vagabond/vr_vagabond_pro.
I got in contact with 3D drawing and modelling many years ago in my education and spare time with Autocad and 3Dmax. Also analog on paper. 
I got into AR and VR about 3 years ago in my workplace at Bayer. We got some Quest2 and Focus3 and tried out a lot of VR use cases for Design Review, Training and Meetings. We were/are also doing a lot of 360° VR and AR stuff.
The biggest challenge is to make the enormous potential visible to the people. They must get an idea about the possibilities and how to adapt it to their needs.
I really fall in love with this technology and I am always passionated to explore new options to use it or learn experiences from others.
At these explorations I came into Arkio which I used currently to plan my backyard and visualize it to my wife. You know: happy wife, happy life. It was sometimes that difficult to explain her my ideas.
With my private Quest3 I was able now to build (draw, model) the terraces, the raised bed and some plants and let her move around it (and get her approval).
I’m 53, married, 2 kids. Diploma in Physical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering. Live near Cologne and Düsseldorf. Like music. No sports.
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Hey there @vr_vagabond_pro, welcome to the community! 
As someone who also has used Arkio to confirm design decisions with my partner, I can confirm this helps 
Would love to see how the project, or any of your explorations, goes over in the Studio !
Hi !
My name is Ricard Petersson living in southern Sweden. I’m up to a private project designing and hopefully soon building an additional Home office-Guesthouse-Garage/Boathouse beside my villa.
I found Arkio while google for a way to experience my Architect 3D generated drawings in VR with my Oculus 2. Even this did not succeed yet by the file format issue, I am impressed by the Arkio user friendly interface etc.
@david already told me about file formats so I will ask my Architect for the right ones
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@Ripe welcome welcome! Together we will battle the file formats, one .obj at a time 
Hi everyone and greetings from Ireland! I am an architect with a practice in Dublin and have been using Arkio as part of our design development workflow. Most of our projects are residential in nature and vary in scale from single buildings to larger urban developments. I’m looking forward to seeing what the latest beta can do and what others on the group here come up with too!
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Welcome to our community @Greg! Some users might recognize you from one of our first featured Arkio sample projects! 
You can learn more about Greg’s work and his firm Davey+Smith at this blog
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Hi everyone , Im Jey
Grew up in boston moved to Phoenix, Arizona 2012. Looking forward to learn more about arkio. Right now im starting my journey in permaculture, also love crafting, building and working with others. I dont have a backround in architect work or anything of that nature but I always find myself coming up with different plans/designs in my head now finally able to make something of it. I used arkio to help me with my permaculture/landscape plans for my backyard! This software is no joke 
. It really helped bring my yard to life. Im still learning and can’t wait to see what else I can do. Nice to me everyone and hope to work with everyone in one of those group projects.
Welcome to the community Jey 
Great to hear about your usage of Arkio for landscape design. If you have examples you want to share we’d love to see them in our Studio to learn more!
Should I post it here or somewhere else?
You can best post any work you’d like to share on the Studio page. Looking forward to seeing more!
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