Explore Earth
A new view from orbit
See clouds around Earth and lights on its dark side as you explore from orbit in the HxAR Metaverse.
HxAR 2.3 · Available now
The real world.Now with possibilities.
Explore Earth from orbit. Launch a rocket and fly to Mars. Create a house in 3D and step into your property in the HxAR Metaverse.
Current release: HxAR 2.3iPhone & iPadRequires iOS 18.2+
Now on the App Store: HxAR 2.3 is available for iPhone and iPad. Discover the latest Earth, rocket, Mars and property-building experiences below.
HXAR 2.3
Spatial dashboardVirtual propertiesInteractive storiesHolographic play
Explore HxAR 2.3
Earth is just the beginning.
Launch into a larger world, discover Mars and create a place of your own. These are real screenshots from HxAR.
Your journey starts on the launch pad.
Take off in the rocket and fly from Earth to Mars in the HxAR Metaverse.
Fly there. Park up. Go underground.
See Mars from the cockpit, arrive at your destination, park the rocket and access underground rooms.
Draw a plan. Make it a place.
Create walls, doors, stairs and floors, explore the rooms in 3D and build a property for the HxAR Metaverse.
Explore the House Plan guide ↗Inside HxAR 2.3
Four ways to enter
the world of HxAR.
Discover nearby AR, build and organise experiences, revisit shared virtual spaces and play at life size.
01Look around
Discover nearby
Open GEO AR and see what has been left in the world around you.
02Make something
Start your scene
Turn an idea into a place someone else can step inside.
03Return to it
Continue building
Re-enter your virtual property and pick up where you stopped.
04Take a shot
Play in your room
Place the holographic snooker table and continue your saved frame.
One app. Four ways in.
Explore the four main parts of HxAR 2.3.
HxAR 2.3 connects discovery, creation, virtual property and play in one spatial world.
01Discover
The real world, with another layer
Use GEO AR—the nearby camera and radar view—to find public stories, virtual places and creators around you.
Location-based AR
02Create
Build stories people can step inside
Place models, images, video and links, then add movement, collisions and interactions before sharing the scene.
Story builder
03Build
Turn HexTiles into virtual places
Group HxAR’s location-linked HexTiles into land, then add floors, rooms, portals, exhibits, games and media.
Virtual property
04Play
Life-size holographic play
Practise AR Snooker in your room, save the frame, or invite another HxAR player to a remote match.
AR games
A worldwide HexTile layer
A global grid, calculated around you.
HxAR calculates virtual HexTiles from real-world coordinates across land and sea. At the current 3.8-metre HexTile radius, that represents a theoretical scale of approximately 13.6 trillion potential HexTile positions worldwide.
THE IMPORTANT PARTCalculated on demand.Not created or stored across the planet in advance.
- 288coordinate reference zones
- 24 longitude bands × 12 latitude bands, with each zone covering 15° × 15°.
- ≈13.6 trillionpotential HexTile positions
- A theoretical worldwide scale at the current 3.8-metre HexTile radius, not trillions of stored records.
- 127HexTiles in the active view
- One centre tile and six surrounding rings in the normal Search Location grid.
01
Visit a location
HxAR calculates the surrounding HexTile grid when it is needed.
02
Give a tile meaning
Lasting information can include virtual ownership, assignments, terrain, Stories or additional active colour types.
03
Save only what matters
Persistent records are created where information needs to remain, rather than for every possible tile.
New in HxAR 2.3
Shape your place in the Metaverse.
HxAR began by helping people create and share AR anywhere. HxAR 2.3 connects exploration on Earth and Mars with places you can create and visit in the Metaverse.
Fly to Mars
Launch. Fly. Park. Explore.
Take off in the rocket, fly to Mars, park up and access underground rooms. Discover the Red Planet from the cockpit.
Build your place
From a 3D plan to a Metaverse property
Create your virtual house with walls, doors, stairs and floors, inspect the rooms in 3D and bring your property into the HxAR Metaverse.
Own. Collect. Refine.
Save your work and continue later.
Return to continue a scene, develop a virtual building, check a nearby story, practise a saved frame or see what your HexTiles have become.
HX
HX VAULTOne world. Your history inside it.
Keep sight of owned places, collected items and the experiences worth returning to.
Private by default
Built for the world you are standing in
Privacy, safety and support.
Sign in with Apple
A familiar, privacy-conscious way to access your HxAR profile.
You choose what is public
Private and public content are clearly separated as you create.
Read the AR safety guidance
Know what to check before using location-based AR in a real place.
HxAR 2.3 is live
Start exploring today.
Download HxAR 2.3 from the App Store, explore Earth and fly to Mars. Own a property to start creating its replacement building in HxAR 3D Design Studio on iPad.
Read the HxAR 3D Design Studio guide