Paleis Soestdijk Experience

At the end of 2023 VirtuWalk gave me the opportunity to work on a prototype experience about Paleis Soestdijk.

The goal of this opportunity was to showcase the possibilities that VirtuWalk could offer Paleis Soestdijk.

For this project I mainly worked on recreating the palace and it's surroundings in Unity.

3D models

To create 3D models that were needed to recreate the palace and it's surroundings, I had to get reference pictures of the palace and it's surroundings.

For this I was allowed to go walk through the palace and take pictures of it.

A picture taken on the day of the visit

These pictures that were taken were used as a reference to recreate the palace as a 3D model.

The model of the palace was split into multiple parts which allowed for higher resolution of materials on the 3D model.

A comparison picture of the experience lined up with the previous picture

Prototype

The prototype was a lo-fi experience in which the user would experience multiple eras of the palace. The user would first see how the palace looked when it was first constructed and then "Time travel" to how it currently looks.

For the prototype these were the only eras created, but a finished product would have multiple eras. In this prototype the user would learn about the history of the building by interacting with paintings and objects.

Example picture of a painting being interacted with.