Visual Vocal

Visual Vocal (Vv) was a Seattle, Washington-based company that built a cloud-based AR/VR platform for immersive communication, documentation and training around complex 3D projects. The system ingested 360-degree renders from CAD/BIM tools such as Revit, Rhino and SketchUp, along with real-world 3D captures of jobsites or training locations, and turned them into shareable immersive messages called a "Vv." Users could add voice annotation and markup, share content by mobile phone or VR viewer, and reference individual experiences through a globally unique seven-digit "Vv ID" that could be inserted into jobsite tracking tools such as Unearth. A mobile "VR Inbox" consolidated spherical messages, meetings and project updates, and publishers could set permissions governing each participant's level of interaction based on project role [2][3][4].

The platform supported both real-time and asynchronous use. Virtual environments could be hosted for live remote or in-person meetings — connected at launch through audio linking technology from London-based Chirp, with the 2018 release supporting up to 20 users in a shared environment hosted from an iOS or Android device — or sent as self-contained interactive tours and project-milestone messages for later viewing, with feedback flowing back to project leads [2][4]. Described use cases included design-phase rendering comparisons, jobsite progress communication and post-occupancy facilities documentation [4]. Public marketing described capabilities for teleporting experts to a jobsite for feedback, facilities documentation features labeled "Time Travel" and "X-Ray Vision," and a "Mind Merge" mode for sharing a stakeholder's viewpoint [0][1]. Service tiers included free accounts (opening AR/VR messages and joining meetings), paid accounts (authoring, annotation and hosting meetings for up to 100 participants) and enterprise deployments [0][1]. The platform is no longer available and the website serves as an archive [0][1].