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! Iām not new to the world of Arkio, but Iām introducing myself now (better late than never).
My name is Gael, and Iāve been passionate about nature and landscapes since I was a child. I grew up in LozĆØre, a mountainous region in central France. Iām 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, Iāve been experimenting with virtual reality and Arkio for quite some time now. I wrote my research thesis on virtual reality topics titled
āVIRTUAL REALITY AS AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TOOL: What does virtual reality induce in the design practices of architects?ā
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, Iāve named it āhyper-contextualization.ā
Today, Iām an architect at an agency in Paris but continue to develop this approach in my personal projects. Iāve presented this method in a YouTube video that traces the creation of one of my projects, which you can find here if youāre 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 360Ā° 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).
Iām 53, married, 2 kids. Diploma in Physical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering. Live near Cologne and DĆ¼sseldorf. 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. Iām 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. Iām 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 Gregās 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 canāt wait to see what else I can do. Nice to me everyone and hope to work with everyone in one of those group projects.
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Welcome to the community Jey 
Great to hear about your usage of Arkio for landscape design. If you have examples you want to share weād love to see them in our Studio to learn more!
Should I post it here or somewhere else?
You can best post any work youād like to share on the Studio page. Looking forward to seeing more!
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Hi everybody, I am Nathalie, a new VR user. I used to draw and sketch for my leisure and projects with Home Design 3D as it is quick and easy to manipulate on a smartphone.
I recently go the VR, initially to just watch movies on a big screen without having to buy a huge TV. As a nomad person, I am quite eager of small items.
Still discovering what VR has to offer (including zombie games I love them) but never ending having new ideas for my home, or that of friends, I discovered Arkio. It was like entering the other side of the matrix.
Nevertheless, Arkio comes with very limited ready-to-use stuff as it is more like for big architectural projects, so I looked for more info and I could import my first 3D object in it. Only after I did it, I saw that there was more in the menu of Arkio already (oops).
Now, I use meta room creator to set up my room, but there are still many challenges (blocking ones for me to really use Arkio).
So here I am, after viewing a few of Davidās great (but speedy) contents that allowed me to go further.
I dream about visualizing my crazy projects with VR and show them to my hubby, but also the workers before they get to a plan, so that I am sure we share the same view.
I intend to crawl here but also ask questions. As a newbie I have tons of it but Iāll do my best to select the most burning and blocking ones, after I searched for a solution. I was hoping for a discord, even though I am more of a ācrawl the help pagesā fan. I also use AI to understand better the vocabulary that is used in the industry and so I donāt bother uselessly. I know how hard it is to repeat the same things, how long it takes to demo something (even though David seems to do it in 5 seconds 
).
If I had a feedback for David: maybe adding subtitles for non native speakers would help (and also because youtube can generate the translation) and also slow down when manipulating that great Arkio menu. Nothing more. I am so amazed by your savvy talent on Arkio, it is just mind blowing. 
Lastly, all my thanks for Arkio to exist in the VR world. 
-Nath
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Hi Nath,
Welcome to the Arkio community and great to hear about your experiences and feedback on Arkio so far! We have big plans to improve Arkio and are currently working on our 2.0 update which will improve several key workflows and add more content. We will be sharing news on that in our newsletter and socials in the coming weeks.
We will look into adding other language subtitles to the videos and recommend watching them on Youtube which does a pretty good job of translating them to other languages automatically. Iād also recommend looking on our support pages using Google Translate for more info. Let us know if you are missing some info or have any questions that we can explain in more depth.
Johan
Hello, Iām Eric. Learning Futurist based in Kyoto, Japan. I specialize in XR in education and I see some possible interesting case uses in education for this product. Also I noticed a recent demo found online is set in Japan, so I thought Iād reach out and see if I can connect to the team to explore collaborative possibilities.
Hello everyone! Seems like a very interesting forward thinking group.
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Welcome Eric,
I enjoyed my time in Kyoto and had fun making that mixed-reality recording. You can download Arkio from: Download Arkio for XR headsets, desktops and mobile devices and learn more about using the various features at https://support.arkio.is/
Let us know if you have any questions about the tools or would like to jump on a call to discuss your ideas with Arkio.
Hi folks!
Iām Jay, a landscape architect and urban planner in Nashville, TN. Iām a married father of two kiddos, and I work for a US Federal entity, the Tennessee Valley Authority, in Economic Development. I use my skills as a designer to help our communities attract jobs. One of the ways I help support them is by creating visualizations our local communities can share with companies. Basically, me and my team show what a companyās industrial operations might look like if they chose to locate on our communitiesā site(s). Arkio is one of the best Mixed-reality tools weāve found that enables us to present these conceptual designs to decision makers while standing on one of our communitiesā sites. Iām passionate about minimizing the time and effort it takes designers to get ideas out of our imaginations and into formats that clients and decision-makers can easily understand. Iām excited to be a part of this community and look forward to listening and learning from each other!
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Welcome @TVAjay and thanks for sharing a bit of background about yourself and your work.
Iām sure our community would also love to see some examples of these mixed reality use-cases if you have something cool to share in our Studio
Itās pretty magical to see a virtual model fit in real-world locations using MR!
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Thanks Johan! Iāve posted about how we are currently using Arkio for mixed-reality presenations here: Using Arkio to Support Job Recruitment
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