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Always in sync
What you change in Rhino or Grasshopper shows up in the headset in real time. What you move in the headset goes back to Rhino. No exporting files, nothing uploaded to the cloud.
Beta by invitation · Meta Quest 3 and Android
Your Rhino model, right where it is going to be built
E-SPACE brings your Rhino and Grasshopper models into the real space, at 1:1 scale, and keeps them in sync while you work. Look at a QR code, place the model, then move it, rotate it, change its parameters and see the result instantly.
What it is for
Made for people who design with Rhino and Grasshopper and need to see, check and set out what they designed on the real site before building.
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At real scale
The model is anchored in space with printed QR markers, with points you tap by hand, or resting on the floor or a table. On site, 1:1; for scale models, down to 1:100.
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Hands free
On the Meta Quest 3 you grab, move, rotate and scale each piece with your hands or the controllers. On the phone, with your fingers.
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Live Grasshopper
The sliders, toggles and lists of your definition show up in the headset. You move them there and Grasshopper recalculates: you see the change on the real site.
How it works, in four steps
Each step is explained in detail in the user guide.
- Connect RhinoInstall the EsSync plug-in, open your file and run the
EsSynccommand. Rhino opens a session and shows a QR code. The server starts by itself. - Look at the QR with the headsetOn the Quest you tap “Link” and look at the QR on the screen; on the phone you scan it with the camera. It connects by itself over your Wi-Fi network.
- Place the modelYou choose how: with the QR markers printed for the site, by tapping the corners of each marker by hand, or resting it on the floor or a table.
- Work with itGrab and move pieces, switch layers on and off, change the view, tap Grasshopper parameters and see how it looks in place.
What you can do
Place the model in three ways
With QR (the most accurate), by hand on the same Rhino markers, or on the floor or a table. See how.
Move, rotate and scale
Every Grasshopper piece that allows it can be grabbed with your hands. With one hand you pull it closer or push it away like a lever; with two, you scale or rotate. See the gestures.
Layers and views
Switch Rhino layers on and off and choose between realistic, shaded, wireframe or edges view, to see the outline and let the real thing show through.
Live parameters
Sliders with ‹ › arrows, tappable numbers with a keypad, toggles, lists and buttons from your Grasshopper definition.
Accuracy map
In Rhino, a color map (blue, green, red) tells you which parts of the model will be accurate depending on where you stick the QR codes, before going on site.
See the users in Rhino
Every connected headset appears in Rhino with its silhouette, field of view and where it is looking. See the commands.
Grasshopper listens to the headset
Components that read the headset position, gaze, hands, pointers and QR codes, plus touch and hover events.
Several viewers at once
The Quest and one or more phones can share the same session: one builds and another supervises.
Where it works
Three viewers, the same system.
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Meta Quest 3
Mixed reality using the headset cameras, hands free and controllers. This is the version made for building on site. See the app.
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Android phone
Augmented reality with ARCore to check and supervise in parallel. See the phone app.
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Web viewer on the PC
A preview in the browser, without mixed reality, to test and show the model from the same computer.
On the computer side you need Rhino 8 for Windows with the EsSync plug-in.
For studios, students and faculties
E-SPACE is being tested with people who design and build with Rhino and Grasshopper.
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Architecture studios
Check and set out on site, with your office team and whoever builds looking at the same model. Request the beta.
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Universities and faculties
One license for the classroom and the studio: many students, each with their own computer. See education.
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Students
Free Basic plan, Grasshopper examples to download and videos to learn. See resources.