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KeyShot Studio VR is the add-on that takes your KeyShot Studio scenes out of the monitor and places them in a fully immersive virtual reality environment with a single click. Designed from the ground up for product designers, engineers, and marketing teams, it removes the guesswork from the design review process by letting you and your collaborators experience a product at true, life-size scale before a single physical prototype has ever been built. Rather than presenting a flat render on a screen and hoping everyone in the room interprets it the same way, KeyShot Studio VR puts every stakeholder inside the design itself - walking around it, inspecting fine details up close, and making informed decisions with confidence. As HP's Advanced Design and Strategy Team put it, KeyShot Studio VR lets teams experience the design much earlier in the process to get a better idea of the finished product in time to make critical changes.
Getting into VR is as straightforward as the rest of the KeyShot Studio workflow. Prepare your scene in KeyShot Studio - add materials, environments, and animations as you normally would - then press the KeyShot Studio VR button on the toolbar and put on your headset. That is the entire setup. There is no export pipeline to manage, no file conversion, and no specialist VR development skills required. Once inside, you can switch between material options, model sets, environments, and cameras using the in-VR tools, giving you all the flexibility of a full design review without ever having to remove the headset. KeyShot Studio VR can also be launched as a standalone application and loaded directly with a KSP or BIP file, making it accessible to team members who do not have a full KeyShot Studio subscription.
The VR experience itself is built on a physically based rendering engine that delivers accurate environment reflections across varying roughness levels on plastic and metal-like surfaces, as well as realistic color transmission on transparent materials including glass, liquids, and gems. Refraction is approximated for performance, which keeps the frame rate smooth while still producing a convincing visual result. Material baking is available to improve the representation of advanced materials like labels, metallic paint, and material graph outputs, and the system supports NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading to maintain high visual fidelity while maximizing frame rate on compatible hardware. Full HDRI environment support, ground shadows, background colors, and backplate images round out the rendering capabilities inside the headset.
One of the most compelling aspects of KeyShot Studio VR is its collaboration features, delivered through KeyShot Studio VR Connect. Using a LAN or VPN connection with no complex configuration required, multiple users around the world can join the same virtual space simultaneously, sharing the same scene and interacting with it together in real time. This opens up powerful use cases beyond the traditional design review - virtual showroom experiences where sales and marketing teams evaluate product variants in a real-world retail context, pre-production sign-off sessions where manufacturing teams inspect tolerances and assembly details, and collaborative ideation sessions where distributed teams explore and annotate a design together. Hosting a session is as simple as a point-and-click, making it accessible to everyone regardless of their technical background.
KeyShot Studio VR supports a wide range of headsets including Meta Quest and Rift series, Pico Neo series, SteamVR devices including Valve Index and HTC Vive, Varjo VR, XR, and Aero series, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets from HP and Lenovo, among many others - thanks to adoption of the open OpenXR standard. In-VR tools include a Move tool for repositioning objects, a Measure tool with snapping for precise dimensioning, a Cut Plane tool for cross-section inspection, a Pointer tool for guided presentations, sketch tools for in-VR annotation, and XR mode which replaces the virtual environment with real-world camera passthrough imagery for mixed reality review sessions. User scaling lets you adjust your apparent height anywhere from 1/1000th to 20 times your actual size, making it easy to inspect micro-scale details or review large products like vehicles and furniture at any perspective.
Features
| One-Click VR from KeyShot Studio | Launch your KeyShot Studio scene directly into a fully immersive VR environment with a single click from the KeyShot Studio toolbar - no export, conversion, or additional setup required. |
| Standalone Application | KeyShot Studio VR can also be launched as a standalone application and loaded directly with KSP or BIP files, making it accessible to team members without a full KeyShot Studio subscription. |
| Physically Based Rendering Engine | Features a physically based rendering engine with accurate environment reflections on plastic and metal surfaces at varying roughness levels, plus approximate refraction and color transmission on glass, liquids, gems, and dielectrics. |
| HDRI Environment Support | Full support for both data-driven and procedural HDRI environments, including flatten ground, ground shadows, background color, and backplate image settings carried directly from your KeyShot Studio scene. |
| Material Baking | Material baking with a cache for improved load times allows KeyShot Studio VR to support advanced material effects including labels, metallic paint, material graphs, and Axalta paint with a closer match to the KeyShot Studio appearance. |
| Multi-Material Switching | Switch between material options defined in your scene's Multi-Materials directly inside VR using the Switch Material tool, enabling interactive design reviews without leaving the headset. |
| Model Set Switching | Cycle through Model Sets in VR using the Switch Model Set tool, allowing you to compare design variants, configurations, and assembly states interactively during a review session. |
| Camera Switching | Switch between cameras saved in your KeyShot Studio scene to jump to predefined viewpoints and angles during a presentation or review, maintaining consistent framing across sessions. |
| Environment Switching | Change the active HDRI environment from within VR to evaluate how a product looks under different lighting conditions without exiting the headset or reloading the scene. |
| Animation Playback | Start and stop animations from within VR to demonstrate product functionality, opening sequences, and mechanical movements in full life-size scale during presentations and reviews. |
| KeyShot Studio VR Connect - Multi-User Collaboration | Host or join a shared virtual session over LAN or VPN with zero configuration, enabling multiple users around the world to occupy the same virtual space and interact with the same scene simultaneously. |
| Move Tool | Reposition objects within the VR environment using the Move tool, with support for precise single-axis and single-plane movement via the Precise Move tool and optional snapping for accuracy. |
| Measure Tool | Make any number of measurements within the VR scene with optional snapping and selectable scene units, enabling accurate dimensional inspection and annotation during design reviews. |
| Cut Plane Tool | Slice through your product with a cut plane to inspect internal geometry, assembly clearances, and component relationships in full life-size VR without leaving the review session. |
| Sketch and Pointer Tools | Annotate directly in VR using the Sketch tool, and guide other participants through a presentation using the Pointer tool for clear, intuitive in-session communication. |
| XR Mode - Mixed Reality | XR mode replaces the virtual scene environment with real-time camera passthrough imagery, enabling mixed reality review sessions on compatible headsets including Valve Index and the Varjo XR product line. |
| User Scaling | Scale your apparent size anywhere from 1/1000th to 20 times your actual height, making it easy to inspect microscale details or review large products like vehicles and installations from any perspective. |
| NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading | Leverages NVIDIA Variable Rate Shading on compatible Turing or newer GPUs to deliver improved performance and frame rate while maintaining high visual fidelity throughout the VR session. |
| Customizable Graphics Settings | Choose from Ultra, High, Medium, Low, and Custom graphics presets, or fine-tune individual settings to balance visual quality and frame rate for your specific hardware configuration. |
| OpenXR Standard Support | Built on the OpenXR open standard, enabling KeyShot Studio VR to support any OpenXR-compatible headset including Meta Quest and Rift, Pico Neo, Valve Index, HTC Vive, Varjo, and Windows Mixed Reality devices. |
| Outline and Bloom Visual Effects | Add visual polish to presentations with Outline and Bloom effects, making it easier to highlight specific components or create a more immersive atmospheric look in the VR environment. |
| In-VR Screenshot Tool | Capture screenshots directly from inside the VR session with anti-aliasing support, making it easy to document review sessions, capture approval moments, or share specific viewpoints with the wider team. |
| Locked Mode for Presentations | Activate Locked mode to disable the in-VR UI during guided presentations, preventing accidental menu activation and ensuring a clean, distraction-free experience for the audience. |
| Studios Support | Scenes using Studios from KeyShot Studio are supported in VR, allowing you to carry complex scene setups and studio configurations directly into the immersive review environment. |
Latest Features
| Connect Headsets After Launch | KeyShot Studio VR 2025.1 adds support for connecting VR headsets after the application has already been started, removing the requirement to have a headset connected at launch for a more flexible workflow. |
| Crash Fixes for Scenes and Animations | Version 2025.1 resolves a bug where opening a scene through KeyShot Studio would cause environments and textures to be missing, and another where playing animations without a connected headset would cause a crash. |
| Precise Rotation Tool | Added in version 2024.1, the new Precise Rotation tool enables accurate in-VR rotation of objects, complementing the existing Precise Move tool for more controlled object placement and positioning during review sessions. |
| Improved Precise Move Tool Widget Scale | The scale of the Precise Move tool widget has been improved in version 2024.1 for better usability, making it easier to interact with precision placement controls across a range of scene and object sizes. |
| Cut Plane Tool | Introduced in version 2023.2, the Cut Plane tool lets you slice through geometry in VR to inspect internal components, assembly relationships, and hidden details without any preparation in KeyShot Studio beforehand. |
| Pointer Tool | The new Pointer tool added in 2023.2 allows presenters to guide participants through a scene or highlight specific areas of interest during collaborative or client-facing VR review sessions. |
| Outline and Bloom Effects | Two new visual effects - Outline and Bloom - were added in version 2023.2, giving presenters additional tools to call attention to components and add visual depth to immersive review environments. |
| Locked Presentation Mode | A new Locked mode added in 2023.2 disables the in-VR UI entirely, preventing accidental interactions during presentations and delivering a clean, professional experience for clients and stakeholders. |
| Improved VR Device Connection UI | A new UI panel added in version 2023.2 guides users through the process of connecting VR devices, reducing setup friction and making it faster to get into a session regardless of the headset being used. |
| Improved Scene Load Times | Version 2023.2 delivers improved loading times for scenes, reducing the wait before entering a VR session and making it faster to cycle between scenes during multi-variant design reviews. |
| Extended VR Device Support | Version 2023.2 extended support to additional VR devices, building on the OpenXR standard adoption to ensure broad headset compatibility across the most widely used consumer and enterprise VR hardware. |
| Dark Mode UI Theme | An optional dark mode UI theme was added in version 11.2.0, reducing eye strain during extended VR sessions and providing a more comfortable interface for users working in dimly lit environments. |
| Undockable Sidebar for Fullscreen Viewing | The sidebar can now be undocked from the VR view window in version 11.2.0, enabling true fullscreen mirror viewing on a secondary display for guided presentations and audience viewing setups. |
| Overhauled Variable Rate Shading Control | Version 11.2.0 overhauled the Variable Rate Shading system to deliver higher performance and more granular control over shading intensity, with a new slider in preferences for fine-tuning on compatible NVIDIA hardware. |
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