3Dkuvan

3Dkuvan is a volumetric 3‑D graphics engine and application suite developed by the Australian start‑up KuvaTech, founded in Melbourne in 2017 by former research scientists Emma Li and Ravi Patel. The product was first released to the public in March 2019 as “3Dkuvan v1.0” and has since evolved through multiple major updates, with v2.3 launched in September 2023. The company’s mission is to provide an integrated platform for real‑time rendering, simulation, and virtual reality that can be used in architecture, product design, gaming, and media production.

The engine’s core is a hybrid raster‑ray tracing pipeline that leverages NVIDIA RTX and AMD RDNA 2 GPUs to deliver photorealistic lighting, global illumination, and volumetric effects at interactive frame rates. 3Dkuvan also includes a node‑based material editor, physics‑based cloth and fluid solvers, and an AI‑driven denoiser that reduces render times by up to 70 % without visible loss of quality. The software supports importing CAD, OBJ, FBX, and its own proprietary .kuv format, which stores scene data in a cloud‑based, version‑controlled environment. In 2021, 3Dkuvan was shortlisted for the Autodesk University awards for innovation in digital design tools.

In addition to the desktop application, KuvaTech released “3Dkuvan XR” for mixed‑reality headsets in 2022, enabling designers to walk through their models in augmented reality. Partnerships have been established with several architectural firms and a handful of indie developers, and the platform is actively used in educational contexts to teach advanced rendering concepts. As of 2026, 3Dkuvan has a user base of over 12,000 professionals worldwide and continues to release incremental improvements focused on performance, scalability, and integration with cloud rendering services.