(Re)Design Reviews: Adobe Launches Substance 3D Reviewer on the Meta Horizon Store

It’s Substance Days at SIGGRAPH 2025, and Adobe Senior Director of Engineering Guido Quaroni just announced something huge on stage: Substance 3D Reviewer is now available on the Meta Horizon Store!

Designers and their stakeholders are increasingly distributed, making hybrid solutions more important than ever. Whether you’re collaborating across continents or commuting from your home office, being able to share, review, and align on product designs quickly and confidently is key. And because traditional design reviews are tied to flat screens and static slides, they fail to convey the real feel, fit, and function of your designs in the physical world.

That’s where Adobe Substance 3D Reviewer comes into play.

Built by Adobe in partnership with Meta and optimized for Meta Quest headsets, Reviewer brings your 3D models to life in VR as well as on the web. That means you and your teams can experience your designs the way they’re meant to be experienced: in an actual space, at scale, in real time.

Digital twins are transforming how brands design, market, and sell their physical products, with 3D files serving as the foundation for photorealistic prototyping, AI-powered content generation, and more. But a traditional design review can struggle to communicate the spatial relationships, ergonomics, and context contained by digital twins. Adobe Substance 3D Reviewer bridges this gap by creating a shared virtual environment, letting VR participants move around the models at room-scale and participate in real-time collaborative discussions—with the added flexibility for those without a headset to join via the web.

With proportional precision, this approach gets rid of the distortions you can get when trying to translate 3D content on a 2D screen. This makes it easier to see how an object fits within your hand, how it rests on a table, and how its material finishes will look under realistic lighting conditions before physical production begins.

Reviewer lets both technical and non-technical stakeholders provide and capture feedback through voice and text comments pinned directly to model locations. With support for both live and asynchronous workflows, plus organized feedback management, Reviewer makes for faster approvals, fewer late-stage surprises, and more confidence in design decisions.

Substance 3D Reviewer is now available on the Meta Horizon Store. Check out the free demo to see how it can transform your workflow and accelerate your team’s design review process—no asset upload required.