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Needle Cloud

Manage and optimize 3D files
and host your spatial web apps.


Magically optimized

Upload a 3D file and get a web-ready version automatically — a fraction of the size, loading in a fraction of the time, on any device.

  • Right-sized for every device. We build lighter levels of detail for meshes and textures and load them only when needed — fast on phones, crisp on desktops.
  • Presets for any project. Pick hero quality for a product showcase, or lighter settings for props in a large scene.
  • No manual work. No remeshing, no exporting variants by hand — it all happens automatically.

Your 3D files,
ready for the web.

Upload your 3D assets in a variety of formats, including GLTF, USD, FBX and VRM . We prepare them for various usecases using our state-of-the-art optimization pipeline.

You can embed them in your website, share links with others, or download them for further use.

Here are some examples:

Trusted by

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy, across two iconic sites in New York City.
Prefrontal Cortex is a brand agency specialized in the creation of innovative applications and interactive concepts.
Google is a multinational technology company specializing in search, cloud computing, online advertising, and consumer electronics.
Autodesk makes design and creation software for architecture, engineering, manufacturing, and media & entertainment — including AutoCAD, Revit, Maya and 3ds Max.
Emerging Media Lab at the University of British Columbia is an experimental space where faculty, students and staff collaborate with industry and community to evolve learning using emerging media.
A.MUSE is an interactive design studio creating extraordinary mixed reality experiences by blending art, design and technology.
Cartoonfun is a husband-and-wife team who have created cartoon content for over three decades — from traditional comics to animation and augmented and virtual reality.
The Walking Nerds is a digital creation and development studio based in Paris (France) and Valencia (Spain).
South North is a design and technology studio creating websites, apps and digital products for the ecosystems of the future.
Aku — created by Micah Johnson, former MLB player turned artist — represents the power of dreaming without limits, brought to life through storytelling, art, products, and unique digital collectibles.
Unity is the world's leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content: 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity.
The Khronos Group is an open consortium creating royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics and media — including glTF, KTX, Vulkan, OpenGL and WebGL.
Praxis Labs brings scalable immersive learning to leading people-focused companies, helping learners build core human skills that improve company culture, equity and inclusion, and retention.
Mead & Hunt is an architectural, engineering, planning, and construction services firm with around 1,200 employees.
EPM is an agency with over 90 in-house digital marketing, exhibition stand design, and experiential marketing specialists.
Gamoola is a creative agency specialized in animation, illustration and interactive experiences.
Polygonal Mind is a creative development studio, focusing on art, optimization and aesthetics over anything else.
EDBYTO creates XR e-learning applications for immersive AR and VR.

Ultra-fast HDR environments

Realistic image-based lighting that loads in a fraction of the time. FastHDR environment maps load up to 10× faster than EXR, use around 95% less graphics memory, and stream in smoothly without freezing your scene — all built on open standards.

Browse 20+ ready-to-use environments in 1k, 2k and 4k, and drop them straight into your three.js or Needle Engine project — or compress your own EXR or HDRi images on Needle Cloud.

Ballroom HDR environment loaded as a FastHDR map
Up to 10× faster to load an environment
Shorter is better – example used 4K textures
Around 95% less graphics memory used
Shorter is better – example used 4K textures
Up to 8K sharper, just as fast

The time you save with FastHDR goes straight back into image quality. A crisp 4K environment now loads as quickly as a low-resolution one used to — so even ultra-detailed 8K scenes become practical on the web, without slowing your project down.


Host your spatial web apps made with Needle Engine

Bringing your spatial web apps online is now easier than ever. Say goodbye to manual server setups – host your apps directly on Needle Cloud.

Upload a new version with a single click, right from Needle Engine for Unity and Blender. Our global CDN ensures your apps load fast, no matter where your users are.

What people say

Unbelievable Unity editor integration by an order of magnitude, and as straightforward as the docs claim. Wow.
Chris Mahoney Founder, Our Computer Company
Needle Engine has been the most flexible, easy to implement, and solid web AR implementation I've come across.
Dario Sanchez why.de
Export scenes from Unity, leverage the 3D editor ecosystem, then render them in your own web-based engine.
Stella Cannefax CTO, Dora
My workflow has been optimized 10X ever since I started using Needle.
Yuzu Web Game Developer
We have around 12 products used globally, all made with Needle. It's been absolutely instrumental in getting them out the door — and makes the whole workflow so easy.
Steven CTO, Virtually Sports
It just works on every browser — that's the mad thing. And it can be used by people like me who can't code.
Duncan Macintosh Director, Gamola
When we saw it's multiplayer, we started screaming in our office. Amazing support, amazing community.
Martin F 3D Generalist
The best thing I've seen since Cinemachine in Unity. Unity should acquire this.
Rinesh Thomas Game Developer, Assassin's Creed VR
Simply the best Three.js extension I've ever tested. Bravo!
Sebastien Lempens
It is just soooo good, thanks for creating such an amazing dev tool!!
Rodrigo Hamuy
This is amazing — if you're curious about WebXR with Unity, this will help us get there.
Dilmer Valecillos Developer Advocate, Meta
needle.tools is a wonderful showcase of what Needle contributes to 3D on the web. I just love it.
Kevin Curry Founder, Intangible.ai (ex-Unity)
Played with this a bit this morning — pretty magical.
Brit Gardner Senior Engineer, Coherence (ex-Blizzard)
Huge for WebXR and shared, immersive 3D experiences — and the AR part worked flawlessly.
Marc Wakefield Augmented Reality Expert
You animate something, press export, and it's in the browser. You share a URL and say join me — it always impresses people.
Paul Kirsten Co-founder, Prefrontal Cortex
Needle addressed all the issues I had. At the MIT hackathon, we were by far the fastest team.
Toby XR Developer · MIT Reality Hack winner
I tried Adobe Aero, 8th Wall and Niantic Lightship — all dropped or needed app-store downloads. With Needle's App Clip tech I found the right path.
Mike Bardeggia Founder, Pedestrian-X
I tested it in your engine and it worked on the first try — which I haven't experienced in any other engine.
Steffen Aaland 3D Artist
Game changer when working with three.js. Feels like magic.
Patrick Byrn
A must have for any threejs developer! Makes debugging much easier.
Thibaut Andrieu
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