Sample model: a house from an IFC file
This page loads a small BIM model. Open it in the browser of your VR headset and tap "View in VR". The A button switches between table-top model and full scale, and the menu button ≡ on the left controller shows the guide.
- Free, no sign-up
- No third-party ads
- Your file stays on your device
- VR with a headset, AR with a phone
Drop a file here
IFC · STEP · STP · IGES · BREP · STL · glTF · GLB · OBJ · FBX · PLY · 3MF · DAE · ZIP
Enter a code from your computer
The viewer on your computer shows the code under "View in a VR headset".
Your file stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
WebXR
Even better: your model in VR and AR
On a screen you look at a model. In a VR headset you stand in front of it or inside it: as a table-top model you can pick up, at full scale to walk through, or with passthrough right in your room. No app needed, just the browser on your headset. And with a phone you place the model in AR on your table.
- Open your model here on the computer and click View in VR or AR. You get a six-digit code and a QR code.
- In the browser of your VR headset, go to the address shown, for example viewer.atlasvr.ch/482913, or scan the QR code with your phone. The model comes straight from your computer, encrypted, with no upload.
- Tap View in VR, or View in AR for passthrough and on a phone.
It also works without a computer: open viewer.atlasvr.ch on the headset itself and load the file from its downloads folder or a cloud drive.
WebXR, the open web standard for VR and AR, is built into the Meta Quest Browser (Quest 3 and 3S), the PICO Browser, Chrome on Android XR (for example Samsung Galaxy XR and AR glasses such as XREAL Aura) and Chrome on Android phones for AR. On iPhone and iPad the viewer opens the model in AR Quick Look, Apple's AR view. Safari on Apple Vision Pro supports VR mode.
Controls in the headset
- Grip button or trigger
- Pick up, move and turn the model
- Both hands
- Pull the table-top model bigger or smaller
- A or X button
- Switch between table-top model and full scale
- B button
- Reset the view
- Menu button ≡ or Y button
- Show and hide the guide, with "Exit VR" on it
- Joystick
- At full scale push forward, aim and let go to teleport; push sideways to turn 30 degrees
- Hand tracking
- Pinch thumb and index finger to grab
Scan with your phone to see the sample model in AR
Open the sample modelYour file stays with you
The viewer reads your file right in the browser, with WebAssembly on your device. There is no upload, no server that sees your model and no account. If you send the model to your VR headset or phone, it goes encrypted straight from device to device; our server only brokers the connection and forgets the code after 10 minutes at most. The file for AR on an iPhone is made in your browser, too. Close the tab and the model is gone. We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, without cookies; file names and contents are never sent.
From AtlasVR
Want more than a model viewer?
AtlasVR builds VR training for industry and vocational education: from high-voltage training for automotive technicians to construction trades and a crane simulator in use at AZW. Together with partners such as AGVS, suissetec and Campus Sursee. AtlasVR is an ETH Zurich spin-off based in Flüelen, Switzerland.
Want to show your own models on many VR headsets at once, in class, in a training centre or at a trade fair? Talk to us.