The history of IRISVR and Prospect

IrisVR launched in 2014 and built Prospect into one of the leading VR design-review tools in AEC. Resolve's founders, Angel Say and Russell Varriale, competed alongside IrisVR's Shane Scranton and Nate Beatty for years, both teams based in New York and pushing the same category forward.

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Migration plan for Prospect, step by step

Migration takes time. Treat it as a planned project with an owner and a deadline, not a scramble in August.

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1. Inventory what depends on Prospect

List active projects using it, the people trained on it, and the systems your Prospect issues and annotations feed into.

2. Get your data out

Back up your issues and screenshots per Autodesk's documentation. If you've synced issues to Autodesk Forma, they come into Resolve automatically. Models can't be extracted, since Prospect applies a proprietary format on upload. Resolve ingests Revit, Navisworks, and anything viewable on Forma.

3. Consider hardware upgrades

Prospect ran on tethered headsets and dedicated PCs. A wireless headset like the Meta Quest 3 removes that hardware dependency and lowers the barrier for new users.

4. Map out your VR review workflows

Document how teams move from model upload to issue tracking today, so you can replicate it after the migration, not rebuild it from scratch.

5. Evaluate replacements on stability, not just features

• Is BIM review the core product, or one feature in a larger catalog that could get cut?
• Is there an active team still shipping updates?
• Can you export your data again if you ever need to leave?
• Does the workflow span more than a headset, so one platform issue can't strand your team?
• Does it integrate with your existing cloud workflows?
• Can it handle your model types without hours of manual prep?

6. Run a trial before the deadline, not after

Move a real project onto the new tool while Prospect still works as a fallback. Testing now is lower risk than testing under pressure in September.

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Resolve as a Prospect replacement

IrisVR built Prospect around tethered PCs driving the headset. Resolve made the opposite bet: a proprietary rendering engine built for standalone headsets from day one so that anyone could get started with VR. That's why full federated models run on a wireless Quest today, with no file trimming and no workstation to manage.

Resolve was also first to connect VR review into a common data environment, and first to put multiple people inside the same model at once. And since Resolve isn't an Autodesk product, your team isn't locked into one vendor's stack. Autodesk, Procore, Revizto, and Newforma all flow in and out without manual workarounds.

Our offer for Prospect customers

IrisVR Prospect is reaching end of life in September 2026, without any further product support or renewals. 

We’re here to make the transition easy for you. From now until September 30, we’re offering former Prospect customers up to 5 free VR headsets when they sign up with a Resolve project license.

For BIM managers, that turns a tooling decision into a planning decision. Now is the time to plan migration to a new system.

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