Obscura™

Welcome to the most accessible atmospheres simulator in the world.

Obscura™ is a real-time lighting environment simulation software that combines the physical and sensitive effects of light.

Immersion

Obscura™ offers the unique possibility of representing lighting atmospheres and illuminance levels in real time. Based on the codes of a video game, the platform creates for its users an immediate immersion in indoor or outdoor lighting ambiances, for urban, landscape, architectural, professional and private projects.

Realtime

Obscura™ provides the essential lighting parameterization and measurement functionalities to achieve, in record time, the lighting configurations perfectly adapted to users' needs and expectations.

Learn more.

Get a 30-minute guided tour to discover the benefits and advantages of Obscura for your business.
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LIT Design Award

Obscura™ is the winner in Innovative Lighting Software Applications, 2023.
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Lux Futurum Award of Excellence

Obscura™ is one of the 8 winners of the Lux Futurum Award, chosen from 120 international entries, 2024.

For quality and performance.

All-in-on lighting software

Obscura provides immediate access to data on energy, light distribution, photometric values and atmosphere quality. It provides the lighting industry with a unique and decisive decision-making tool in the transition to sustainable lighting practices.

Making light accessible

Obscura is aimed at all those involved in lighting, with the single ambition of supporting the development of qualitative lighting practices. It is available in multiple languages, and its interface is designed to be mastered in a minimum of time by the greatest majority of users.

With the perfect workflow.

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3D model


Import your 3D models or model in real time from your drawings.
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real time lighting design


Work with your own fixtures or browse our library of world-famous lighting fixtures.
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real time lighting measurements


Get illuminance and luminance without delay.
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stunning reports


Make your life easier by using our integrated dynamic layout editor.

To everyone.

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Users, test it before everyone else
Be among the first to discover the solution, contribute to it and benefit from adapted prices.
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Manufacturers, add your products
Be among the first to integrate the Obscura library, and benefit from promotional offers on services.

Our values.

highlighting the light.

Obscura is driven by the need to highlight the value of the lighting professions. It features an immersive first-person 3D environment and immediate interaction with the physical and technical parameters of lighting, for a renewed, resolutely simplified experience of digital lighting design.

Offering a limitless experience.

Obscura lets you design lighting projects in real time. It offers a unique experience and an unprecedented level of interaction in space planning and professional lighting design, giving the world a whole new way of creating with light.

Entering a new world.

Obscura presents an all-in-one real-time 3D environment based on video game codes. It saves a significant amount of time in the design of a lighting project, and facilitates the transmission of the technical and conceptual keys to each project.

Setting the standard for professional excellence.

Obscura creates a new way of designing lighting projects. Brand-independent, it works with products on the market, maximizing the time spent on designing and validating high-quality lighting environments, in the service of industry excellence.

Be fast.

Obscura is based on the Unreal Engine rendering engine. It features high-quality, computing-free light representation and photometric measurement functions, offering the profession the first technical and sensitive real-time digital tool.

Obscura, a software from L'Observatoire de la nuit ©.

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