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What is Hololight Space?

What makes Hololight Space unique and how does it work

Hololight Space is an XR (extended reality) engineering application that lets you visualize, interact with, and collaborate on complex 3D CAD models in augmented and virtual reality. Built for industrial use, it delivers immersive, real-scale 3D experiences on AR and VR devices - without compromising model complexity, visual quality, or data security.

Hololight Space helps engineers, designers, and decision-makers gain deeper insights into their products. It provides an immersive environment to inspect, review, and interact with original CAD data in real time.

What makes Hololight Space unique?

Unlike traditional XR tools, Hololight Space doesn’t require file conversion or data simplification. You work directly with native 3D CAD files—no optimization needed. This preserves full model fidelity and supports real-world engineering workflows.

Hololight Space is powered by Hololight’s proprietary XR streaming technology. Rendering is offloaded from the XR device and handled on a powerful local server or cloud machine. The output is streamed as pixels to mobile XR devices, such as Meta Quest or HoloLens 2. This allows users to interact with detailed 3D data on lightweight, wireless hardware.

How does Hololight Space work?

Hololight Space uses a client-server architecture:

  • Rendering happens on the server
    The application runs on a Windows-based machine with a dedicated GPU. You load your 3D model into Hololight Space on this server.
  • Pixel streaming to XR devices
    Instead of transferring models or applications to the XR device, Hololight Space streams only the rendered images. No sensitive data leaves the server—only pixels are transmitted.
  • One application for AR and VR
    Whether you’re using augmented reality (such as HoloLens 2) or virtual reality (such as Meta Quest), Hololight Space adapts to the device and provides a consistent experience.
  • Interaction in XR
    Users can explore and manipulate models in full scale using powerful built-in tools. These include:
    • View exploded parts
    • Take cross-sections and measurements
    • Detect collisions
    • Leave annotations
    • Compare model versions
    • Align virtual models to the real world using spatial anchoring

    Benefits at a glance

    • No model simplification
      Work directly with your original CAD data—without losing detail or accuracy. See the supported file formats in our support base.
    • High performance on lightweight devices
      By offloading rendering to external hardware, mobile XR devices are no longer a limitation. Done by our very own XR Streaming technology
    • Secure by design
      CAD files and intellectual property stay on the secure server; only pixels are streamed to the headset.
    • Cross-team collaboration
      Multiple users can join sessions simultaneously, improving communication and accelerating design decisions.
    • Supports real-world use cases
      Use it for design reviews, ergonomic studies, quality assurance, prototyping, and more—across the full product development process.

    Hololight Space is more than a viewer—it’s a productivity tool for engineers and designers who want to bring their 3D data into the real world and make better decisions, faster.