Build Story · 3D web pilot · EN
VRE Experience: a 3D walk through shipped worlds
A scroll-through 3D pilot that walks from Sofia, 2015 past each kind of VR Express work, one set at a time.
In one look
The problem
A studio's portfolio is usually a page of thumbnails. For an XR studio that is the opposite of what it sells.
What we built
One page you travel through. A camera rolls along a dolly track between sets in a film-studio hangar: Sofia 2015, then six kinds of work, then the count of 142 shipped projects. Scroll, press Next, or drag to look around.
Where it is now
A working pilot in English, hidden from search engines. The six selected-work cards at the end have no video clips yet, and the build has not changed since 25 September 2026.
What this would have cost in 2024
About $4.7k and 3–5 weeks
2024 team: 2 people: a three.js developer and a 3D artist. Built here by one founder working with AI in 26 days, 5 working days.
| Piece | 2024 hours |
|---|---|
| 3D scene engine: camera path, scroll, touch and key travel, eight-step overlay, no-WebGL fallback | ~29 |
| Film-studio hangar look: lighting rig, scaffolds, dolly track, light beams, environment lighting | ~43 |
| Six station 3D models, with a loader that falls back to simple shapes | ~43 |
| Copy, site shell, icons and social card | ~11 |
| Total (PERT) | ~125 |
Method: PERT (O+4M+P)/6 per piece; low = O × $25, likely = PERT × $37.5, high = P × $50 (Accelerance 2024 Eastern-Europe band). These are estimates of what a team would have needed in 2024, not invoices.
How it was built
From first commit to current build in 26 days, 5 working days
- Remixed and re-themed in an evening
Started as a remix of an earlier eight-step 3D explainer, re-themed to VR Express, with the world and camera path rebuilt around the studio's story.
14 commits in 30 minutes - Real models and a render upgrade
A render fidelity upgrade, then six 3D models dropped in with a loader that falls back to simple shapes. Camera reframing, a services arc and an orbit around each set.
14 commits that day · 6 models served live - Icons and a social card
VR Express icons, platform meta tags removed, and a 1200 × 630 social card, so the page could be shared as a link.
- The Backlot: a film-studio hangar
The floating-islands look was replaced by a hangar with a lighting rig, scaffolds, a dolly track with running lights and, in a second pass, stage decks, volumetric light beams, AgX tone mapping and a free-licence HDRI.
7 commits in 48 minutes
Who did what
The founder decided
- Fidelity comes from real assets, not code-drawn shapes: an earlier hangar built from primitives was rejected as too crude.
- The original floating-islands-in-space look was dropped for a film-studio hangar.
- Kept as a pilot: written in English and hidden from search engines.
AI built and checked
- The scene, copy and site shell, built in Lovable from the founder's briefs.
- Claude proposed four visual directions for the rebuild; the founder picked the film-studio hangar.
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From one call to something live. The same method is in the Claude Operator Pack.
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