What’s new at JigSpace

You can now share group spatial presentations with others using SharePlay. While on a FaceTime call in Apple Vision Pro, you can now use SharePlay to view a Jig presentation with multiple people simultaneously. Highlight objects, pull apart pieces, and draw annotations, all while talking and seeing each other.

As the presenting host, you control the flow of the presentation, ensuring that each transition is synchronized for all viewers. This update allows any viewer to interact more dynamically with the content by picking up objects, highlighting specific parts, and drawing annotations. These changes are instantly visible to everyone involved, fostering a truly interactive session.

We are also making available - to more eligible paying subscribers - the ability to view your own Jigs. Viewers will be able to open Jigs on Apple Vision Pro by opening a share link.

Features include opening publicly visible jigs, spatial hand gestures, most core presentation content types, as well as the new viewing in multiplayer mode with other people. This feature is still in beta, so there are some limitations. If you spot any issues or have feedback, we’d love to hear from you!

Experience these new capabilities today and transform how you interact with Jig presentations on Apple Vision Pro.

We’re excited to announce the launch of JigSpace for Apple Vision Pro, taking full advantage of its incredible capabilities to supercharge the communication of complex ideas, products and processes, radically enhancing the impact and efficiency of training, sales and marketing.

With JigSpace for Apple Vision Pro, you can:

• Explore an incredible, curated selection of 3D presentations.
• Immerse Yourself in Detail: Lean in and discover intricacies of your products like never before, engaging with content that is meticulously crafted for clarity and immersive communication.
• Stunning Realism: Experience presentations that feel real, thanks to the power of Apple Vision Pro, supporting 4K textures and high-fidelity CAD files for unparalleled realism.
• Intuitive Interaction: Manipulate Jigs with spatial hand gestures; pull apart components, annotate, and explore in a natural, hands-on manner that enhances understanding and interaction.


This version includes sample content to explore. You will soon be able to view your own 3D presentations made with the JigSpace desktop or iPad apps on this app for Apple Vision Pro.

You can now hide step controls from your viewers and add ‘Go to Step’ actions to create custom interactive flows to your Jigs.

Add quizzes or compliance confirmations to 3D training and 3D instructions, or create clickable prototypes and 3D configurators for sales and marketing.

Learn how to hide step controls or watch a replay of our recent webinar and live demo of how to add interactive navigation to your content. 

Hide step controls

Go to Jig Info in the editor and enable ‘Hide step controls’ to hide the default step-based navigation user interface from your viewers. This setting is saved to each Jig, and can easily be turned on or off.

Hiding step controls applies to any viewing format of your Jig from the native apps, web browser views, embedded iframe, and soon, Apple Vision Pro.

> Learn more about hiding step controls and step navigation

Interactive button models

The free object library in JigSpace has a new button category to make adding interactive navigation to Actions easier via  ‘Go to step’ or ‘Go to URL’.

Choose from over 50 unique icons and buttons to match your interactive navigation or links to websites. The color, scale, and materials of the buttons can be customized like any other 3D object.

> Create a new 3D presentation with buttons

Other improvements

• White label custom branding now extends to our App Clip viewer

• Improvements to resolving file saving conflict when multiple devices or multiple users are editing a 3D presentation at the same time.

We’ve made one of the biggest enhancements to content creation this year, with a new materials and textures panel in the Windows and macOS desktop app. With these new features you will be able to polish and modify 3D models to look even more realistic.

Advanced material settings requires version 3.27 or above. Update app now.

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Set precise color and transparency

Apply exact product colors with HEX color input to ensure 3D models are consistent across their product family and match brand style guides. Use the % transparency input to hide a model from the viewer on a step, or to create semi transparent views to show internal parts of a product. 

> Learn more about materials

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Fully customize your materials

Fine tune your material’s roughness, metalness, emission, and more. Modify the Jigspace materials to meet your needs, or go deeper with your own custom textures. Upload diffuse, normal, and RMA maps, then set the roughness and metalness to reveal the right level of detail to look realistic in augmented reality or a 3D viewer. 

You can also add emission to models like backlit screens or LED lights to add brightness and a sense of internal light.

> Learn more about advanced material and texture settings

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Create animated flow-effects

Our flow effect shapes are incredibly popular to bring CAD to life and similar air or liquid flow through products. Now you can add a flow effect shape to your 3D presentation, and edit the speed and direction of the flow-effects to meet your needs. You can also upload your own flow-effect textures to animate with our flow-shader based material, then customize its the speed and direction.

> Learn more about customizing animated flow shader effects

Plus, we’ve made these improvements:

• We’ve given the app a glow up: updating fonts to match our new branding and ensuring processes like importing CAD files or saving can occur in the background. 
• There are a range of bugs that have been squashed in the automatic optimization of large CAD files, video textures in our web-viewer, and general reliability and stability improvements across the board.

Advanced material settings requires version 3.27 or above. Update app now.