Shapespark

Shapespark, based in Kraków, Poland, makes software that converts architectural 3D models into realistic walkthroughs viewers can explore in a web browser. Its users include architects, interior and visualisation specialists and property marketers, who let clients roam a design on a phone, computer or VR headset rather than looking at still renders. Shapespark says it belongs to the Glodon Group.

What Shapespark offers

• Model import — plug-ins for SketchUp, 3ds Max and Revit, plus import of OBJ, FBX and COLLADA files, with scene settings kept when the model changes.
• Realistic lighting — path-traced global illumination baked with a single click.
• Free movement — viewers walk anywhere in the scene instead of jumping between fixed viewpoints, without the distortion of 360 panoramas.
• 3D meetings — video calls held inside a walkthrough.
• Sharing and hosting — scenes are prepared in a desktop editor for Windows or in the cloud, then hosted and shared by link or website embed, using HTML5 and WebGL with nothing to install.
• Customisation — branding with own logos, edits through HTML and JavaScript, a viewer API and, on upper tiers, custom domains.

Who it works with

Shapespark serves architects, designers and archviz professionals, and real estate marketers showing buyers homes that are not yet built.

Key facts

• Based in: Kraków, Poland
• Group: part of the Glodon Group