In brief
Autodesk WorkshopXR
An immersive XR workspace for the AEC industry
Extended Reality, Digital Design
2020 - present
Roles
Product vision
User Research
UX strategy
Concept visuals
Experience design
UX/UI
Prototyping & Testing
Product guidelines
Softwares
Unreal Engine
Figma
Maya
ShapesXR
Bezi
Adobe Premier Pro
Procreate
Miro
Platforms
Meta Quest platform
Desktop / PC
Background
I joined Autodesk in 2020 as the founding designer for a small 5-person R&D team which was tasked to explore XR initiatives that would benefit the company's portfolio in the long run. Our mandate was to advice on which technologies to leverage and where to invest in when it comes to building XR workflows, and then establish a signature XR experience across multiple product platforms & diverse industries that Autodesk caters to.
Our R&D work led us to first focus on the Architecture, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) industry and design a collaborative XR design review solution for the AEC market. We soon evolved from a 5 person R&D unit to a 45 strong, full-fledged product team, which also included the acquisition of a startup company called The Wild. And with that acquisition came 2 XR products - The Wild and Prospect by IrisVR. Leveraging the years of experience & learnings from both these legacy products, and by partnering with Meta and Epic Games, we built our next-generation product, Autodesk WorkshopXR, which offers an unique collaborative design review experience, which is tightly integrated to the Autodesk Platform via the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
Autodesk WorkshopXR was launched on November 13, 2024, at the Autodesk University 2023, Las Vegas, USA.
Create Workshops linked to your data in the Autodesk Construction Cloud
WorkshopXR allows you to create multiple collaborative spaces (workshops) to review ACC data.
Come together in a comfortable virtual environment
Meet & greet your team mates and collaborators inside the Workshop.
Have a round-table discussion about your project as a whole
Load & review the largest BIM models in VR without any preparation or optimization to your files whatsoever.
Walkthrough and experience your BIM models at human scale
Jump into 1:1 mode and have a collaborative walkthrough of the model in human scale.
Inspect & analyze BIM data in context for better alignment
Collaboratively inspect your designs in space
Access model meta-data and properties of all BIM components in space.
Find, create, review, & track Issues in real-time
Easily create & assign Issues which are bidirectionally synced to ACC. Teleport and review the Issue in space.
Manage visibility settings & filter what you see
Hide / Unhide any element as needed by selectively toggling visibility settings for all BIM component of you AEC model
Review the most complex AEC models with ease
Load & review the largest BIM models in VR without any preparation or optimization to your files whatsoever.
Hear testimonies from our enterprise customers
Autodesk WorkshopXR is being widely adopted by our enterprise AEC customers and we are helping to revolutionize the design review workflows of some of the most renowned names in the Architecture and Construction realm. Using WorkshopXR, they are able to put new features and enhancements directly into action, increase their productivity, and save considerable amount of time, effort, & cost for each of their projects.
It's always amazing to see your designed products making a difference in your customers' lives. But it's certainly a privilege to hear it directly from them! Following videos give a glimpse of how our next-gen product is helping some of our enterprise customers in their everyday work.
Stantec finds new flow with XR
HKS Explores New XR Collaboration Opportunities
AtkinsRéalis Discovers XR Workflow Benefits