Echos - Streets of Cairo

About

• Immersive VR experience designed to let user experience the atmosphere, architecture and culutre of Old Cairo freely
• Created in Collaboration with Artist Amr Ali & Mena Safwat

My Contributions

• XR Development
• Technical Art (Shaders & VFX)
• Level Design
• Light Baking & Post Processing
• 3D Asset Optimization on Blender
• Performance Optimization for standalone VR
• Sound Design and Mixing in Unity

Technical Challenges

• Rendering a dense historic environment while maintaining smooth performance on standalone VR
• creating atmospheric lighting using custom shaders instead of expensive real-time effects
• Optimizing hundreds of environment assets through mesh optimization, batching, and rendering improvements on Blender & Unity
• Designing a free-exploration experience that encourages users to discover the environment naturally
• Created volumetric Lighting shader
• Created custom shader for smooth Fog Particle system

Behind The Scenes