# Heatmaps feature

Heatmaps provide a way to understand how people experience a space by capturing real user sessions in VR.

They make it possible to:

* **Analyze movement** — see how users navigate through a space.
* **Assess attention** — understand where users look and how long they focus on specific areas.
* **Validate design decisions** based on real interactions in context.

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Heatmaps are recorded as **holonotes (without audio)** that capture:

* User movement and position.
* Object interactions.
* Gaze direction over time.

Each session becomes a replayable record of the user experience, providing detailed insight into how a space is explored and used.

### **Enabling Heatmaps**

To start recording heatmaps, enable this option for a Place in the [**Web Arranger**](/places/places-dashboard/web-arranger.md).

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Once enabled, **recording starts automatically when a user enters the Place in VR**.\
All sessions will be captured and grouped by variants.

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### **Reviewing Recordings**

Recorded heatmaps can be viewed in the **Web arranger** in different modes:

* **Observer view** — watch the session from the outside
* **First-person view** — see the experience from the user’s perspective

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Attention is visualized using a **color gradient**, showing how long a user focused on specific areas, for example: green - short attention, but red — long, sustained focus.

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### **Managing Recordings**

The Web Arranger also provides the possibility to organize and manage recordings:

* **Rename** heatmaps.
* **Delete.**

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