# amplified creations — Full Content > This document is a complete, machine-readable snapshot of amplified creations' website content, optimised for LLM ingestion and RAG retrieval. Last generated: 2026-09-21. --- ## Organisation **Legal name:** Amplified Creations - Informática e Gestão, Lda. **Founded:** 2014 **Based:** Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal **Type:** Independent, fully-remote technology studio **Email:** info@amplifiedcreations.com **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-creations/ **Own products:** RVer (https://rver.pt), VRBox (https://vrbox.io) **sameAs:** https://rver.pt, https://vrbox.io **Languages served:** English, Portuguese, Spanish **GDPR:** EU-compliant. All data in EU regions. **Tagline:** A digital studio making the future feel unreasonably tangible. **Description:** Independent, fully-remote technology studio across Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal. We design and ship custom VR, AI and immersive product systems for ambitious B2B teams — from VR for clinical settings to global hospitality. Trusted by Mercedes, Porsche, SONAE and the Portuguese Army. --- ## Team ### Pedro Thomaz — Founder · CTO Founder and technical lead of amplified creations. Sets the studio's direction across VR, AI and digital infrastructure. Hands-on with code, design reviews and the awkward conversations that happen before a project ships. Expertise: Virtual Reality, AI, Product strategy, Engineering leadership ### João Thomaz — CEO Runs the studio day-to-day — finance, partnerships, the unglamorous bits that make creative work possible. First call for senior client engagements. Expertise: Operations, Client relationships, GTM ### Renato Thomaz — CFO Keeps the books, the contracts and the regulatory paperwork in order. The reason the studio can take on Class I medical device projects without breaking. Expertise: Finance, Compliance, Operations --- ## Services ### 01 — 3D / Virtual Reality **Tags:** VR · AR · 360° · Spatial · Real-time 3D **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/3d-vr From immersive VR systems for clinical settings to cinematic 360° tours, we design, capture and ship immersive experiences as products, not demos. **Who it's for:** For hospitals, automotive brands, hospitality groups, defence, training organisations. **What we do:** - Virtual Reality applications (Quest, Pico, Apple Vision Pro) - 360° video capture, stitching and post-production - Real-time 3D experiences (Unity, Unreal, Three.js, WebGL) - Matterport, Insta360 and custom photogrammetry workflows - Hardware integration: haptics, motion tracking, biometrics - Class I medical device development (MDR 2017/745 compliant) ### 02 — AI Systems **Tags:** LLMs · RAG · Agents · Automation · Custom models **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/ai From tuning your Claude or LLM setup, to RAG over your own data, to a custom AI system built from zero — one team across the whole range, shipped as product, not prototype. **Who it's for:** For teams drowning in manual work, founders with proprietary data to leverage, and companies that want AI built into the product — not bolted on. **What we do:** - Claude / LLM setup, prompt systems and agent design - RAG pipelines over your documents, data and knowledge base - Custom AI systems built from scratch (models, infra, evals) - Workflow automation + internal copilots and assistants - Model selection, fine-tuning and cost / latency optimisation - Guardrails, evaluation, observability and EU-hosted data privacy ### 03 — Photography & Video **Tags:** Studio · Aerial · Architectural · Product · Editorial **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/photo-video Studio, aerial and architectural capture for brands that care how they look on every screen, every scroll, every print. **Who it's for:** For automotive, retail, real estate, hospitality, and editorial publications. **What we do:** - Studio + on-location automotive and product shoots - Aerial cinematography (FAA / EASA-licensed pilots) - Architectural photography for real estate and hospitality - Brand video, motion content cuts for paid social - Colour-graded for print, web, broadcast and DCP - Asset libraries with usage rights from day one ### 04 — Webdesign & Engineering **Tags:** Marketing sites · Dashboards · Platforms · Native apps **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/web Custom marketing sites, dashboards and platforms — from first sketch to last deploy, built by the team that designed them. **Who it's for:** For tech founders, B2B SaaS, agencies needing technical depth, and product teams replacing their marketing site or admin panel. **What we do:** - Marketing sites (Next.js, Astro, plain PHP — fits problem) - Internal dashboards and admin panels - Native mobile companions (Swift, Kotlin, Flutter) - Headless CMS integration (Cockpit, Sanity, Strapi) - CI/CD pipelines + observability + load testing - Migration from legacy WordPress / agency builds ### 05 — Branding **Tags:** Identity · Naming · Systems · Verbal · Guidelines **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/branding Marks, systems and stories with the staying power to outlast a fundraising round. We design brands that ship. **Who it's for:** For founders rebranding, new ventures, product launches inside larger companies. **What we do:** - Brand strategy + positioning + naming - Logo + identity systems - Verbal identity, tone of voice, copy systems - Design system delivery (Figma + tokens + code) - Print collateral + packaging where needed - Brand guidelines documents teams can actually use ### 06 — Marketing **Tags:** Campaigns · Content engines · Paid acquisition · Lifecycle **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/marketing Attract, convert and retain — campaigns and content engines built around real product truths, not vanity metrics. **Who it's for:** For B2B teams with a sharp product but unclear distribution. Post-launch retainers and one-off campaign sprints. **What we do:** - Positioning audit + messaging architecture - Content engine setup (blog, journal, video) - Paid acquisition (Google, LinkedIn, Meta) — sane budgets only - Lifecycle email + onboarding flows - SEO + GEO (LLM-discoverability) - Analytics setup, attribution and reporting ### 07 — Business strategy **Tags:** Productisation · GTM · Operating models · Bets **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/services/strategy Productisation, GTM and operating models for founders who'd rather ship than slide-deck. Custom — never off-the-shelf. **Who it's for:** For founders, CEOs and product leaders who need a sparring partner with both deck and stack experience. **What we do:** - Productisation of services into repeatable revenue - GTM strategy + ICP definition - Pricing + packaging workshops - Org design for small senior teams - Investor narrative + technical due-diligence prep - Strategic technology bets (build vs. buy vs. partner) --- ## Products ### RVer — Immersive Virtual Reality for Clinical Settings. Class I Medical Device. **Category:** MEDICAL DEVICE · INFARMED CLASS I **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/products/rver **External:** https://rver.pt An immersive VR system used in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation and palliative care. Registered as a Class I medical device with INFARMED under MDR (EU) 2017/745. **Features:** - Used in pain management settings: Used in oncology, burn units and post-op care. - Used in anxiety management settings: Pre-operative, paediatric and palliative-care settings. - Rehabilitation: Motor and cognitive recovery exercises. Stroke, neurological and orthopaedic. - Patient experience: Hospital wellbeing programmes — long stays, isolation, mental-health units. **Specs:** - Hardware: Standalone VR headsets (Quest, Pico) - Regulatory status: Registered with INFARMED · MDR (EU) 2017/745 - Languages: PT · EN · ES - Markets: Portugal, EU expansion 2026 - Deployments: 50,000+ sessions delivered ### VRBox — 3D Virtual Tour management & personalisation. **Category:** SAAS · REAL ESTATE & HOSPITALITY **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/products/vrbox **External:** https://vrbox.io A management & personalisation system for Matterport® and 360° virtual tours. Brand them, embed them, instrument them, monetise them — without rebuilding your stack. **Features:** - Custom branding: Skin tours in your colours, fonts and logo. Replace the default vendor UI completely. - Hotspots & CTAs: Drop interactive callouts inside the tour — "Book a viewing", "Download brochure", in-tour conversions. - Analytics: Heatmaps, dwell time, hotspot click-through, CRM sync (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive). - Integrations: Matterport®, Insta360, custom 360° workflows, REST + Webhooks API. **Specs:** - Hosting: EU (OVH) · ISO 27001 - Inputs: Matterport, Insta360, custom 360° - CRM sync: HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, custom - Languages: PT · EN · ES · FR (more on request) - Pricing: Per-tour or per-property volume tiers --- ## Portfolio / Case Studies ### Mercedes-Benz · Photography () **Client:** MERCEDES **Category:** AUTOMOTIVE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/mercedes-photography **Summary:** An ongoing photography partnership with Mercedes-Benz Portugal — built for a calendar that doesn't stop, at the bar Stuttgart sets globally. The same frames now run in Portugal, across Europe, and have surfaced in the Americas. **Brief:** Mercedes-Benz Portugal doesn't launch on quarters. New models, refreshes, configurations and showroom moments arrive when they arrive — and every one of them needs photography that reads the same on a dealer screen in Faro as it does in a printed press kit in Stuttgart. The work, when stripped back: show up when the news does. Hold the brand bar. Hand back assets ready for every channel the marketing team touches. **Approach:** When the news drops, we shoot. Studio cyclorama, on-location frames, dealership interiors, golden-hour exteriors — the shot list changes with the car. The discipline doesn't. Every set-up is reusable, every frame engineered to crop down to social and crop up to print without losing the model. Lightroom presets, locked. A library of Mercedes-tuned Lightroom presets that hold Mercedes silver and AMG signal red consistent across studio strobes, overcast Lisbon mornings and Algarve golden hour. The brand colour reads the same on a phone in São Paulo as on a printed press release in Stuttgart. Ready for every channel. RAW masters, edit selects, retouched hero frames, social cuts, motion-bakeable stills. Delivered on a schedule the marketing team can plan around, named so future-you can still find the file two years from now. **Result:** Photography that travels. Frames captured for a Portuguese launch now run across European markets, and some have surfaced in the Americas — same files, same colour, same standard. The brief was a single shoot. The relationship has outlasted the brief. ### TPF · Multi-Purpose Virtual Tour (2026) **Client:** TPF **Category:** ENTERPRISE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/tpf-virtual-tour **Summary:** A private, multi-purpose virtual tour of TPF's facilities — one digital twin built to onboard new staff, walk partners through the site without a visit, and rehearse evacuation. Internal only, never published. **Brief:** TPF needed their facility to exist in three places at once: in front of a new hire on day one, in front of a partner who can't fly in, and in front of a team running an evacuation drill. The constraint that shaped everything: this stays private. No public URL, no search index, no embed on a live site — a controlled asset, shared only with the people who need it. **Approach:** Captured once, used three ways. A single high-fidelity 3D capture of the full site — every room, corridor and exit, navigable like a walk-through. One source of truth, repurposed instead of re-shot. Onboarding without the walk. New staff explore the building before they set foot in it — where things are, how the space connects, what each area is for. The tour gives the orientation walk, on repeat, identical for everyone. The site visit, remotely. Partners and clients are walked through the facility on a screen — full context, full detail, no badge, no flight, no calendar tetris. Access handed out deliberately, revoked just as easily. Evacuation, rehearsed in place. Exit routes, assembly points and emergency paths mapped into the tour — so drills and briefings run against the real building, not a printed floor plan. **Result:** One capture doing the work of an induction guide, a remote site visit and a safety drill — all behind a private wall. Detailed enough to trust, complete enough to replace the in-person walk, and locked down enough that it never leaves the people it's meant for. ### Delicious Diamonds · Bespoke Luxury Commerce (2026) **Client:** Delicious Diamonds **Category:** RETAIL **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/delicious-diamonds **Summary:** A luxury chocolate house rebuilt as a bespoke commerce platform — boutique, made-to-measure coffrets, private commissions and an invite-only collectors' circle. Frontend and backend written from zero on a 30+ table schema, with AI in the atelier. **Brief:** Delicious Diamonds is a chocolate atelier in Leiria, making handmade bonbons in small numbered runs since 2018. Off-the-shelf e-commerce could sell a box. It could not sell this. The house needed a platform that behaved like the product: editorial, precise, quietly exclusive. Not a storefront wearing a theme — a system where a client can compose a coffret piece by piece, commission a one-off directly from the chef, be read for taste and matched to a wine, and, if invited, step into a private circle with a direct line to the kitchen. **Approach:** We wrote the whole thing from zero. No template, no page builder: a custom frontend and a custom backend on a schema that grew past 30 tables — catalogue and variants, made-to-measure rules and minimums, baskets and orders, accounts, commissions, memberships, editorial content, bilingual copy, scheduling and messaging. Boutique & À Medida. A signature range alongside a build-your-own coffret: choose a format, select the bonbons, hand-assembled on the day it ships — with per-variety minimums enforced in the basket. Peça Única. Private commissions. A client briefs the chef, who reviews every request personally and proposes a price back through the platform. O Círculo. Invite-only. A private members' chat, a direct line to Chef Joana Marinho, priority on limited numbered editions, and a bonbon made only for the circle. Perfil de Sabor. Seven questions that map a palate — intensity, texture, the wine at the table — into pairings and the right coffret. AI in the atelier. An assistant that helps the chef develop and pressure-test new creations — flavour directions, pairings, seasonal ideas — feeding the Sugestão do Chef. The rest of the house. Monthly letter, agenda, concierge, tasting bookings, partners and journal — bilingual PT/EN throughout. The art direction runs through the code, not over it: Roman numerals, a boutique that opens and closes with the atelier, sound you can switch off, and 1% of every sale removing CO² from the atmosphere. **Result:** A demanding build, and the most complete system we've shipped for a consumer brand: one platform that sells, composes, commissions, profiles and hosts a private membership — without a single line of borrowed e-commerce. The result reads like the chocolate itself: restrained on the surface, obsessive underneath. See it live at deliciousdiamonds.pt. ### Porsche · Virtual Tour (2025) **Client:** PORSCHE **Category:** AUTOMOTIVE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/porsche-virtual-tour **Summary:** A Matterport walk-through of a Porsche showroom — published live on the dealer's site so anyone with a browser can step inside, before they ever drive over. **Brief:** Porsche dealerships are designed to be felt: low lighting, deep glass, polished concrete, cars staged the way they're meant to be seen. None of that travels through a phone gallery. The ask, when stripped back: let people walk the room. Wherever they are. Whenever they want. **Approach:** Scanned, not stitched. Matterport Pro capture across the full showroom — every car, every angle, every reflection of the badge in the floor. Millimetric accuracy, navigable like a Google Street View but built for one space, finished to one standard. Built to ship. Embedded directly on the dealer's website. No plugin to install, no app to download, no friction. Loads on a phone in seconds, runs on a desktop in full resolution, performs the same in a tab as it does on a sales-floor screen. Linkable, shareable, indexable. Every hotspot, every car, every viewpoint has its own URL. Sales staff send a deep-link to a specific model. Marketing drops it in an Instagram bio. Search engines see it as a real page — not an iframe black box. **Result:** The showroom, public. The cars, walkable from a phone in another country. The same tour gets shared in DMs, embedded in dealer emails, and quietly indexed by Google — a single asset doing the work of a brochure, a 360° viewer, a Google Maps interior and an entry-point, all at once. ### Hyundai · IONIQ 5 + 5 N (2025) **Client:** HYUNDAI **Category:** AUTOMOTIVE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/hyundai-photography **Summary:** Two launches for Hyundai Portugal — the IONIQ 5 and the IONIQ 5 N. Same nameplate. Same silhouette. Two completely different briefs. **Brief:** On paper the IONIQ 5 and the IONIQ 5 N share a platform, share a face, share a name. In reality they're two cars built for two entirely different shoots — one is a family electric crossover, the other is a 478 kW track weapon that doesn't share a single use-case with its calmer sibling. The brief, in two halves: shoot the IONIQ 5 like a Sunday morning. Shoot the 5 N like a Saturday night. **Approach:** Two cars, two visual languages. The IONIQ 5 was shot in warm light, urban architecture, with negative space and calm — family-first frames, wide pulls of empty driveways, a hand on the steering wheel at sunrise, the kind of stills that sell a daily car. The 5 N got the opposite: hard edges, dark concrete, tyre-smoke at dusk, and crops tight enough to bury its own badge under intent. Same camera, different lighting playbook. Both cars went through the studio cyclorama and on-location runs. What changed was the lighting kit: soft, ambient, low-contrast for the 5 — hard sources, signal-coloured gels, deep contrast for the 5 N. The colour science was tuned per car: Hyundai brand tones for one, performance hues for the other. Delivered as two campaigns, not one. Separate edit decks, separate naming conventions, separate playbooks. Hyundai's marketing team can run the IONIQ 5 work for two years without ever needing the 5 N assets in the same folder — and the inverse. **Result:** Two campaigns, one engineering platform — and a visual archive that lets Hyundai talk to two completely different audiences without crossing wires. The IONIQ 5 work runs on family-side channels, the 5 N work runs in performance and track communities. Same nameplate. Two cleanly-separated stories. ### Porsche · Photography (2025) **Client:** PORSCHE **Category:** AUTOMOTIVE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/porsche-photography **Summary:** Editorial photography for Porsche — built for the moments that don't repeat: launch days, anniversaries, one-of-a-kind builds. Cinematic, considered, made to live on a printed spread as readily as a phone screen. **Brief:** Porsche photography isn't catalogue work. When the studio gets called, it's for the moment that won't come back — the one-off restoration, the anniversary reveal, the press launch where the car needs to feel like a film still, not a product photo. The ask: show up with intent. Light it like cinema. Leave with frames that hold on the cover, in the press kit, on the wall. **Approach:** Lit for film, edited for print. Cinema-style lighting setups — single sources, hard edges, intentional shadow. The car is rendered like a character: front-three-quarter that reads on a magazine cover, profile that holds at billboard scale, detail frames that earn the double-spread. Locations, not sets. Mountain road, race-track paddock, private garage, restorer's workshop, hotel forecourt at four AM. Each shoot is briefed around the place as much as the car — the location carries half the story. Edited like a series. Twenty selects, not two thousand. Each one stress-tested at every output size before delivery — hero spreads, social cuts, internal moodboards. Nothing leaves the studio that doesn't read at every scale. **Result:** Frames that have run on press launches, anniversary editions and private collector reveals — and frames that hang, framed, in clients' offices. The studio gets called back for the next un-repeatable moment. ### SONAE × Lichtenstein · Colombo Tour (2024) **Client:** SONAE **Category:** RETAIL **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/sonae-3d-virtual-tour **Summary:** A 3D capture of SONAE's Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Colombo Shopping Mall — built so a pop-art moment, hosted in a public space, didn't end when the walls came down. **Brief:** Bringing Roy Lichtenstein into a shopping mall is the kind of cultural gesture that, by design, has a deadline. The works arrive, the room is built around them, the public walks through — and then the install is over, the prints fly home, the room reverts to retail. The brief, when stripped back: preserve the visit. Not the catalogue, not the press photos — the walk itself. **Approach:** Scanned with the show still up. Matterport Pro capture across the full exhibition footprint — every wall, every plinth, every Ben-Day-dot edge as it sat on opening week. The shoot ran with gallery lighting on and the room empty of crowd, so the Lichtensteins read the way the curator wanted them to read. Walkable, not viewable. The output isn't a 360° viewer or a slideshow. It's a navigable space — visitors choose their own route, linger where they want, pull in close on a single print, step back across the room. Closer to a museum visit than a brochure scroll. Linkable down to the work. Each piece has its own anchor URL. Press writes about a specific print? Link directly to it. Educators build a route through the show? Share the path. The exhibition becomes a citable artefact, indexable on the open web. **Result:** The exhibition closed on schedule. The tour didn't. It still gets opened by people who missed the run, embedded in articles about the show, and walked end-to-end by anyone curious enough to spend ten minutes inside a pop-art moment that, technically, no longer exists. ### Exército Português · Digital Heritage (2024) **Client:** EXÉRCITO **Category:** DEFENCE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/exercito-virtual-tour **Summary:** Three Virtual Tour captures for the Portuguese Army — the Academia Militar, the Museu Militar de Lisboa, and the room where the 25th of April started. A digital archive of buildings that don't open every day, including a few that don't appear on any map. **Brief:** The Portuguese Army custodies some of the country's most consequential interiors — academic halls that have trained officers for over two centuries, a museum built around centuries of national defence, and at least one room where Portuguese democracy was reset overnight. The brief, when stripped back: preserve the access. Open it to anyone who can't reach it in person. Without compromising what stays restricted. **Approach:** Three buildings, three scans, one standard. Virtual Tour captures across the Academia Militar (officer training, including the general's office that isn't on any visitor map), the Museu Militar de Lisboa (centuries of armoury and exhibit halls, end-to-end), and the precise room where the 25 de Abril revolution began — a location not marked on civilian maps and rarely shown to anyone outside the institution. Captured with the curator's eye. Each scan was briefed with on-site historians and unit commanders. Lighting decisions, route choices, hotspot annotations — all reviewed in-person, so the digital version reads the way the institution wants to be remembered. No artistic licence, no sloppy crops. Built for three audiences at once. Marketing uses it for recruitment campaigns. Schools open it in classrooms across the country. Historians cite specific rooms by URL. The same asset, three working lives — and one quiet fourth: a permanent record, in case any of these spaces ever changes. Companion 360° pass. For the spaces where a walkable scan would have over-promised — narrow corridors, off-limits archive rooms — we delivered a parallel 360° photography pass. Lighter to load, embeddable on the same VRBox platform, used by the comms team in social and print contexts where the full 3D tour would be overkill. **Result:** Three of Portugal's most consequential institutional interiors — including a room that helped end a dictatorship — now have a permanent, walkable, citable digital twin. Used by recruiters to open the door, by teachers to bring the country into classrooms, and by anyone curious enough to walk past a velvet rope that, online, doesn't exist. ### RVer · Class I Medical Device (2024) **Client:** IN-HOUSE **Category:** HEALTHCARE **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/rver-class-i-vr **Summary:** An immersive VR app — engineered to the bar of a Class I medical device. Registered with INFARMED under MDR (EU) 2017/745. A piece of code that legally counts as a regulated medical product. **Brief:** Most VR apps ship when the team thinks they're good. A Class I medical device ships when its regulatory file says so — after a full technical dossier, risk-management file, clinical evaluation, post-market surveillance plan, and a label that a hospital can sign off on. The build, when stripped back: make immersive VR that holds the engineering bar of a medical device, the user-experience bar of a consumer app, and the price bar of a software product. **Approach:** Built for the regulator first. The technical file pre-existed the gameplay. Risk-management matrix, intended-use statement, hazard analyses, software lifecycle (IEC 62304), usability validation (IEC 62366) — drafted before a single VR scene was committed. Every code change traces back to a documented requirement. Engineered like an app, regulated like a device. Native Unity build for Quest and Pico hardware, with the architecture splitting clinical logic (versioned, traceable, locked) from content (themes, environments, soundscapes — swappable per protocol). Updates roll out the way a Class I device must: deliberate, auditable, reversible. Shipped, monitored, iterated. Live in Portuguese hospitals and ambulatory clinics. Post-market surveillance feeds into the next minor version. The same codebase serves pain management, anxiety management, motor and cognitive rehabilitation settings — protocols layered on top of one engineering core. **Result:** A piece of software that legally is a medical product. Used in pain management, anxiety management and rehabilitation settings, in real clinics, on real patients — 50,000+ sessions delivered across hospitals, clinics, continuing-care units and senior residences. The codebase is now the platform — and the regulatory file is the moat. In the press Jornal de Leiria — “Amplified Creations aplica realidade virtual na saúde” ↗ · 19 Sep 2026 Cuidados Paliativos ULS Leiria — o relato do próprio serviço ↗ · 26 Dec 2025 Jornal de Leiria — “Tecnologia permite aos utentes dos Cuidados Paliativos viajar sem sair do lugar” ↗ · 11 Jun 2024 SIC Notícias — “Nos paliativos de Leiria é possível viajar através da realidade virtual” ↗ · 6 Jun 2024 Jornal de Leiria — “Idosos de Alpedriz espreitam o mundo através da realidade virtual” ↗ · 6 Apr 2022 ### Teatro D. Maria II · Full-building 3D capture (2023) **Client:** TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II **Category:** CULTURAL **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/teatro-d-maria-ii **Summary:** A full 3D capture of one of Portugal's most iconic theatres — interior, exterior and the Rossio plaza around it. Built to serve both marketing (a virtual front-door to the public) and technical use (touring companies measuring stage, fly tower and back-of-house dimensions before they ever land in Lisbon). **Brief:** The Teatro Nacional D. Maria II sits at the head of Rossio square — one of Lisbon's most photographed locations, and one of Portugal's most active stages. Two problems, one project: Marketing: the theatre wanted a virtual front door — a way for first-time audiences, school groups, and international visitors to walk through the building online before deciding to come. Programme intro, architecture, the works. Technical: touring productions arrive with set, lighting and rigging plans drawn around a venue they've never been inside. Getting accurate measurements normally requires a site visit. The theatre wanted to ship a measurable 3D model of every working space — stage, fly tower, wings, dressing rooms, get-in routes — so companies anywhere in the world could pre-plan against the real geometry. **Approach:** Public-facing + back-of-house, captured as one. We scanned every space — front-of-house lobby, auditorium, balconies, stage from house side, stage from upstage, fly tower, wings, dressing rooms, the corridors that connect them. Same registration, same scale, walk-through from any room to any other. Outside in. The building doesn't exist without its setting. We added drone passes over the roof and the Rossio façade, plus exterior scans of the surrounding plaza so a remote visitor can stand outside the door before walking in. The whole thing reads as a continuous experience, not a slideshow of rooms. Measurable, not just viewable. Every space is captured at survey-grade precision — touring companies can measure stage depth, wing widths, fly heights, get-in widths, anything that affects a load-in plan, directly inside the tour. Less guesswork, fewer site-visit days, faster booking decisions. **Result:** The first capture has lived inside the institution as a working reference since delivery — used in technical exchanges with touring productions and as the spatial baseline against which subsequent changes are checked. The building has since gone into a major renovation, and a second capture is scheduled for the reopening — same scope, updated geometry. The public link goes here when it goes live. ### Convento do Beato · 360 Virtual Tour (2022) **Client:** HUMAZE **Category:** CULTURAL **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/convento-do-beato **Summary:** A 360° virtual tour of the Convento do Beato in Lisbon — a 16th-century Hieronymite monastery turned hospitality venue. Browsable, embeddable, and ready to drop into the venue's own marketing site. **Brief:** The Convento do Beato is one of Lisbon's most striking historic venues — vaulted ceilings, a 16th-century cloister, an industrial-era refectory wing — but most prospective clients only see it once they've already committed to a site visit. The brief was simple: let people walk through the venue from anywhere, on any device, before they ever email the team. The constraint: it had to embed on the client's existing marketing site without breaking the brand, and it had to load fast enough that no one bounced before reaching the cloister. **Approach:** Mirrorless 360 capture Shot the venue across a single working day with a Sony α7 III on a 360 nodal rig — each room captured as a multi-pass HDR bracket so the dark cloister stops and the bright refectory glass both render without clipping. Post in Lightroom + Photoshop to lock a single tonal pass across the entire run. Built on our own platform Stitched scans were loaded into VRBox — our in-house virtual tour platform — and connected with hotspots so the visit follows the natural path through the convent. Light branding pass to match the Convento's typography and palette. Analytics wired up so the venue team can see which rooms get clicked most. One embed, every channel The tour ships as a single iframe URL that drops into the client's CMS, sales decks, and email signatures. No app, no download, no plugin. **Result:** The tour has been live on the Convento's marketing site since 2022 and is the first link the sales team sends to qualifying enquiries. It shortens the time-to-site-visit and means prospects arrive already familiar with the layout — fewer surprises, faster decisions. ### Castelo de Castro Marim · 14,000 m² heritage capture (2021) **Client:** CM CASTRO MARIM **Category:** CULTURAL **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/castelo-de-castro-marim **Summary:** A 14,000 m² 3D virtual tour of the Castelo de Castro Marim and the wider municipal heritage trail — at the time, the largest single Matterport capture on record. Shot with a Leica BLK360, served through our own VRBox platform with a custom interface for the city council. **Brief:** The Câmara Municipal de Castro Marim wanted the medieval castle and the surrounding heritage trail to be experienceable online — not just for visitors planning a trip, but for school programmes, researchers, and the diaspora across Europe and Brazil who rarely make it back. The whole site spans 14,000 square metres of ramparts, courtyards, archaeological digs and exhibit spaces. The challenge: capture the entire footprint at a fidelity that holds up on a 27-inch display, deliver it as a single navigable tour, and let the city council own the look-and-feel — not Matterport's generic skin. **Approach:** A Leica BLK360, not a Matterport Pro2. Standard Matterport hardware tops out before you reach this kind of scale — and outdoor light + irregular stone surfaces will defeat the consumer-tier rigs. We brought in a Leica BLK360 terrestrial laser scanner: millimetre-accurate, daylight-tolerant, designed for survey work. Paired it with a Sony α7 III for HDR photography and a DJI Mavic 2 Pro for the aerial passes the castle footprint demanded. 14,000 m² in a single Matterport space. The capture ran over multiple shoot days, registered as one continuous walkable tour. At the time of delivery this set the record for the largest single Matterport capture on record — the platform team flagged it internally, and had told us plainly that they did not know whether a space that size would render at all. Fully customised via VRBox. We didn't ship the default Matterport UI. The tour runs through our in-house VRBox platform with a custom interface for the Câmara: their branding, their language toggle, a curated tour path with annotated hotspots, and analytics so they can see which parts of the heritage trail get the most attention. **Result:** Live since 2021 on the Câmara's tourism channels. The capture set the platform record for largest single Matterport tour at the time, and the heritage trail is now accessible from anywhere — school programmes use it as a curriculum resource, the local tourism office hands the link to inbound enquiries, and the diaspora finally has a way to walk through the castle they've only heard about. --- ## Journal ### What it takes to ship a Class I medical VR app **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ship-class-i-medical-vr **Tags:** VR, Medical Device, Engineering, MDR 2017/745, Compliance Most VR teams ship when the team thinks it's good. A Class I medical device ships when a regulator says so. Here's the gap, and what it cost us to close it. ### Why we still scan with Matterport in 2026 **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/matterport-2026 **Tags:** 3D Capture, Matterport, Photogrammetry, Gaussian Splats, Production Photogrammetry got cheaper. Gaussian splats got everywhere. We kept reaching for the same Pro2 we've used since 2019 — here's the unromantic reason. ### Mercedes silver across three light conditions **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/mercedes-silver-three-lights **Tags:** Photography, Color, Lightroom, Brand, Process The brand colour is the same on a phone in São Paulo and a press kit in Stuttgart only if you build a colour pipeline that survives Algarve sunset, Lisbon overcast and studio strobes. Here's the one we use. ### Why we charge by sprint, not by hour **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/sprint-not-hours **Tags:** Pricing, Business, Studio, Process Hourly billing rewards slow people. Per-project billing rewards over-promising. Two-week sprints reward the only thing that matters: shipping something. ### Designing accessible VR for hospitals **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/accessible-vr-hospitals **Tags:** VR, Accessibility, Medical, UX, Healthcare A VR app for a clinic isn't designed for the engineer who built it. It's designed for the 84-year-old patient who's never held a controller. Here's what changes. ### We track no users. Here is what we track instead. **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/track-no-users **Tags:** Privacy, Analytics, GDPR, Engineering No GA. No Plausible. No fingerprinting. The site you're reading sends one anonymous beacon per session — and we still know everything we actually need. ### Three stacks we ripped out in 2026: Webflow, Sanity, AWS **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vendor-migrations-2026 **Tags:** Migration, Webflow, Sanity, Cockpit, AWS, OVH, Headless CMS What broke, what we saved, what we'd do again. Three honest migration walkthroughs with hours and invoices attached. ### Cockpit CMS v2 in production: twelve lessons from four sites **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/cockpit-cms-production-lessons **Tags:** Cockpit, Headless CMS, PHP, Self-hosted, Production Self-hosted, open-source, headless. The things that bit us in production and the patterns that earn their keep. ### A case for not using AI — and using ML instead **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/case-against-ai-for-ml **Tags:** Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Product, Wellness Tech, Jofit Every app shipped in 2026 bolted a chat box onto something. Here's the case for the boring alternative: ranked suggestions from a small model, cheap enough to run on every screen load, explainable enough to defend in a clinic. ### The chocolate house that hides its machinery **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/delicious-diamonds-chocolate-house **Tags:** Web Engineering, Luxury Branding, Creative Development, Bespoke Web, Made in Portugal A recommender, a members-only world, a build-your-own-box atelier, a subscription engine and a closed-loop commission workflow — all hand-built. The story of Delicious Diamonds is invisible complexity in service of effortless luxury. ### A Headless CMS With No Build Step: PHP + Cockpit, Server-Rendered **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/headless-cms-no-build-step **Tags:** Headless CMS, Cockpit, PHP, Architecture, i18n You can run a headless CMS without a JS build step. Here's how we pair Cockpit v2 with server-rendered PHP, FTP deploys, and zero npm pipeline. ### GDPR-compliant analytics without cookies: what we built and why there's no banner **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/cookieless-analytics-gdpr **Tags:** Privacy, Analytics, GDPR, Engineering GDPR-compliant analytics without cookies is possible when you collect no PII and set no client-side identifier — which is exactly why our sites carry no cookie banner. ### Matterport vs Gaussian Splatting vs Photogrammetry in 2026: how we choose **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/matterport-vs-gaussian-splats-photogrammetry **Tags:** 3D Capture, Matterport, Gaussian Splatting, Photogrammetry Matterport, Gaussian splatting and photogrammetry solve different problems. Our 2026 decision rule for which 3D capture method to use, with real tradeoffs. ### How to Photograph a Silver Car: A Practical Guide **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/photographing-silver-cars **Tags:** Photography, Automotive, Lighting, Color A senior studio's field guide on how to photograph a silver car: why metallic paint is hard, controlling reflections, shaping light, and getting the colour right in post. ### Do I Need React for a Website? Usually Not — Here's What to Use Instead **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/react-not-needed-content-sites **Tags:** Frontend, Performance, Architecture, Opinion Do you need React for a website? For most content and marketing sites, no — server-rendered HTML plus a little vanilla JS is faster, more accessible, and lasts longer. ### How to Reduce VR Motion Sickness in Patients: The Design Rules We Ship **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vr-motion-sickness-patients **Tags:** VR, UX, Healthcare, Accessibility A practical, evidence-based guide to reducing VR motion sickness in patients: framerate floors, vignetting, teleport locomotion, seated design and the extra care frail users need. ### Privacy-First Analytics, Explained: What It Means and What We Actually Collect **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/privacy-first-analytics-explained **Tags:** Privacy, Analytics, GDPR, Product Privacy-first analytics means measuring traffic without tracking people. Here's what it means, how it differs from Google Analytics, and the exact signals we collect. ### Machine learning vs LLM recommender systems: when classic ML wins **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ml-vs-ai-recommender-wellness **Tags:** Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, AI, Product Machine learning vs an LLM recommender system: for ranked suggestions, classic ML usually wins on cost, latency, explainability and cold-start. Here's how to decide. ### What luxury brand website design actually demands **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/luxury-brand-web-delicious-diamonds **Tags:** Web Engineering, Luxury Branding, Bespoke Web, Case Study Luxury brand website design is restraint, performance, and bespoke craft — not a template with gold accents. Here's what it took on the Delicious Diamonds build. ### Building a PHP multilingual site without a framework **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/server-rendered-i18n-php **Tags:** i18n, PHP, Localization, SEO, Engineering How we serve EN/PT/ES from one server-rendered PHP codebase — URL-prefix routing, a string dictionary, hreflang, and the language-detection trap we refused. ### Accessible VR and WCAG: what maps, what breaks, and the checklist we ship against **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/wcag-for-vr-accessibility **Tags:** Accessibility, VR, WCAG, UX, Healthcare Accessible VR means designing immersive experiences anyone can use. Here is how WCAG maps onto VR — and the parts it doesn't cover — plus our checklist. ### Why Cookie Consent Banners Are Bad: A Design and Ethics Failure **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/consent-banners-design-failure **Tags:** UX, Privacy, Design, Opinion Cookie consent banners are bad because they are dark-pattern theatre that punish honest sites. The fix is not a better banner — it is collecting less data so you need none. ### How to 3D Scan a Heritage Building: Our Field-to-Web Workflow **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/scanning-heritage-buildings-3d **Tags:** 3D Capture, Heritage, Photogrammetry, Workflow How to 3D scan a heritage building: a step-by-step workflow covering site survey, lighting, capture pattern, scale references, hard surfaces, processing and web delivery. ### Lightroom Automotive Color Grading: Brand Consistency Across a Whole Campaign **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/lightroom-automotive-color-grading **Tags:** Photography, Lightroom, Color, Brand How we grade automotive imagery in Lightroom for brand consistency across an entire shoot: camera calibration, reference swatches, HSL discipline, and a locked export look. ### OVH Shared Hosting in 2026: What PHP 8.3 Can (and Can't) Run **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ovh-shared-hosting-2026 **Tags:** OVH, PHP, Hosting, DevOps, SQLite OVH shared hosting runs PHP 8.3 well in 2026 — if you accept no root, no long-running processes, and tight cron limits. Here's exactly what it can and can't do. ### VR in Hospitals: What Clinicians Actually Need (and What Vendors Oversell) **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vr-hospitals-clinician-needs **Tags:** VR, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Product, UX Field notes on VR in hospitals: what clinicians actually need — cleanable hardware, sub-minute setup, zero login friction, measurable outcomes — versus the demo-reel features vendors oversell. ### How to build a recommender system without user tracking **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/recommender-without-tracking **Tags:** Machine Learning, Privacy, Recommender Systems, Engineering A recommender system without user tracking is built on content features and session-local signals, not cross-user profiling. Here is how we ship one — and the accuracy we trade away. ### The JavaScript framework performance cost you never put on the invoice **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/javascript-framework-hidden-cost **Tags:** Performance, Sustainability, Web Vitals, Opinion The real JavaScript framework performance cost isn't the download — it's parse time on cheap phones, hydration, energy, and years of churn. Here's how we measure it. ### Working With a Web Design Studio in Portugal: How We Actually Operate **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/web-studio-portugal **Tags:** Studio, Portugal, Web Design, Services A web design studio in Portugal, based in Leiria and Lisboa. How a small senior team works: sprint-based, bespoke, engineering plus design plus 3D capture in-house. ### Virtual Tours That Convert: A Practical Playbook **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/virtual-tours-that-convert **Tags:** Virtual Tours, 3D Capture, Matterport, Gaussian Splatting, SEO, Real Estate Do virtual tours increase conversions? Sometimes — when the space is the product and the embed is built to be found, fast, and accessible. Here's our honest playbook on when a 3D tour earns its place and when it's just expensive decoration. ### How to Make Your Site Answerable by AI: A Practical Guide to Generative Engine Optimization **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/make-your-site-answerable-by-ai **Tags:** GEO, AI, LLM, SEO, llms.txt, Structured Data To get your site cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, write answer-shaped content, ship clean semantic HTML and JSON-LD, and publish an llms.txt directory plus a dynamic llms-full.txt. Here is the practical checklist we run on our own site. ### The Carbon Cost of a Website: How Much CO2 a Page View Really Produces **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/website-carbon-cost **Tags:** Sustainability, Green Web, Performance, Web Vitals, Web Design A website's carbon footprint comes from moving and processing bytes — server energy, network transfer, and the visitor's device. Page weight and JavaScript are the main levers. Here's how to measure it and ship leaner. ### Do you need an AI agent? Mostly no. **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ai-agents-mostly-no **Tags:** AI Agents, AI, Automation, Product, Opinion, LLM Most features founders want to make "agentic" are better as a scripted workflow, a form, or a small ranker — cheaper, testable, explainable, and deterministic in production. Here's where an AI agent actually earns its place, and where it doesn't. ### The EU AI Act for teams shipping ML features: a builder's orientation **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/eu-ai-act-shipping-ml-features **Tags:** EU AI Act, AI, Machine Learning, Compliance, Product, Regulation Most ML features you ship are minimal or limited-risk under the EU AI Act, but you still owe users transparency. Here is how the risk tiers actually map to product decisions — from an engineering team, not a law firm. ### Why transactional email goes to spam — and how to fix deliverability **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/transactional-email-deliverability **Tags:** Email, Deliverability, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, Resend, DevOps Transactional email goes to spam mostly because of broken authentication, not bad words. Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC correctly, send from a verified domain, and align your Return-Path — here's the honest checklist we use with Resend. ### Stripe subscription webhooks that survive the edge cases **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/stripe-subscription-webhooks **Tags:** Stripe, Webhooks, Subscriptions, Payments, PHP, Engineering Stripe subscription webhooks only stay correct if you treat Stripe as the source of truth, verify the Stripe-Signature header, dedupe on event id, and refetch instead of trusting event order. Here is the lifecycle map and the failure modes that bit us. ### Apple Vision Pro for Enterprise in 2026: Where Spatial Computing Earns Its Keep (and Where It Doesn't) **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vision-pro-enterprise-2026 **Tags:** Spatial Computing, Apple Vision Pro, VR, Enterprise, Product, Immersive Most "enterprise Vision Pro" pitches are demos that never survive a Tuesday. After a decade shipping VR for hospitals and car brands, here's where the headset actually pays for itself — and where a tablet still wins. ### Will AI Video Replace Product and Automotive Photography? What Sora and Veo Can't Shoot **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ai-video-vs-product-automotive-photography-2026 **Tags:** Photography, AI Video, Automotive, Product, Sora, Opinion, Brand Generative video is good enough to fool a scroll-by and nowhere near good enough to sell a €120k car. Here's the line we draw between AI and a real shoot — and where we already use both. ### WebGPU in 2026: When It's Worth Rewriting Your 3D Web App (and When WebGL Is Still Fine) **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/webgpu-2026-when-worth-it **Tags:** WebGPU, WebGL, Real-time 3D, Three.js, Performance, Web Engineering WebGPU finally shipped everywhere in 2026. That doesn't mean you should rewrite anything. Here's how we decide — from a studio that ships real-time 3D to browsers for car brands and hospitals. ### EU Drone Rules for Commercial Aerial Shoots in 2026: The EASA Checklist We Fly By **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/eu-drone-rules-commercial-aerial-2026 **Tags:** Aerial, Drone, EASA, Photography, Regulation, Production Hiring a drone for a shoot in Europe in 2026 is mostly paperwork, not piloting. Here's the EASA framework — Open vs Specific category, operator IDs, insurance — explained by a studio that flies licensed. ### Virtual tours are not just marketing: onboarding, training and the TPF case **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/virtual-tours-beyond-marketing **Tags:** Virtual Tours, 3D Capture, Onboarding, Training, Safety, Evacuation, Enterprise, Matterport Most virtual tours are sold as marketing. The more useful ones never face the public at all — they onboard new staff, run evacuation drills, and let partners walk a facility from another country. The operational case for 3D capture, and what we built for TPF. ### Small studio, great clients: why we stay small on purpose **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/small-studio-great-clients **Tags:** Studio, Independent, Manifesto, Process, Portugal, Clients We're a small studio. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, SONAE and the Portuguese Army are not. Staying small isn't a phase we're growing out of — it's the deliberate choice that lets us serve great clients well, and give every client the same studio the blue-chip names came to. ### Does VR therapy actually work? The evidence behind therapeutic VR for pain and anxiety **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/does-vr-therapy-work-evidence **Tags:** VR, Healthcare, Clinical Evidence, Medical Device, Pain, Anxiety, MDR 2017/745, Digital Therapeutics Does VR therapy actually work? For acute pain distraction, procedural anxiety and exposure therapy — genuinely yes, with real evidence. For chronic pain and the broader claims, the marketing runs ahead of the science. The honest evidence behind therapeutic VR, and why we built RVer to the bar of a medical device instead of a wellness app. ### Teaching a FoodAI to dream in chocolate **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/teaching-a-foodai-to-dream-in-chocolate **Tags:** AI, Craft, Delicious Diamonds Ateliê de Ideias is a FoodAI built into the Delicious Diamonds studio — a creation assistant that turns a chef's mood board into a first bonbon concept. Not a machine that makes chocolate; an apprentice that never runs out of ideas. ### No build step **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/no-build-step **Tags:** Engineering, Craft, Web Most modern websites ship through a build pipeline. Ours doesn't. Here's what restraint buys a site that has to last. ### Why the no matters more than the yes **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/why-the-no-matters-more-than-the-yes **Tags:** Business, Craft, Pricing One day, a fair commission. The next, a famous name offering a tenth of the price for ten times the work. A short lesson on why a creative career is built on what you decline. ### Everyone's at the World Cup. Almost no one's in the stadium. **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/the-world-cup-and-the-virtual-stadium **Tags:** Immersive, Virtual Tours, VR The biggest tournament ever — 48 teams, 16 cities, three countries — and a few hundred thousand seats against a few billion fans. The gap between watching and being there is the whole opportunity. ### The most-watched AI on earth is calling offsides **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/the-most-watched-ai-is-calling-offsides **Tags:** AI, Real-time 3D, Sport At this World Cup, a goal is judged in seconds by cameras, a sensor in the ball, and a 3D model of a player's shoulder. The lesson for anyone building AI is hiding in plain sight: do less, perfectly. ### Spatial computing grew up off-camera **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/spatial-computing-grew-up-off-camera **Tags:** Spatial Computing, VR, Opinion A couple of years after the loudest headset launch in tech, the think-pieces called spatial computing dead. They were looking in the wrong place. ### Medicine you can wear **Author:** Pedro Thomaz **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/medicine-you-can-wear **Tags:** Healthcare, VR, Craft A Class I medical device that happens to look like a headset. Of everything we build, this is the work we're proudest of — because the metric isn't engagement. It's relief. --- ## Lab — Open-source experiments ### Brand colour pipeline tester **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/brand-colour-pipeline-tester **Stack:** WebGL, Three.js, GLSL, Vue 3 **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/brand-colour-pipeline-tester A tiny WebGL viewer that shows a single hero colour rendered under three light conditions side-by-side. Drop in a hex, see if it survives Lisbon overcast. ### Matterport tour audit script **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/matterport-tour-audit **Stack:** Node.js, Matterport SDK, TypeScript **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/matterport-tour-audit A small Node script that crawls a Matterport tour and flags common quality issues: unreachable rooms, missing hotspots, broken transitions. Internal tool we now ship to clients. ### Live code panel — what you see, while you read **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/live-code-panel **Stack:** Canvas 2D, requestAnimationFrame, JavaScript The 'made while you read' panel on the homepage is real code, running. Here's how the live canvas + token stream works — and what we learned tuning it for sub-100ms repaint. ### PHP image proxy with WebP negotiation **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/php-image-proxy-webp **Stack:** PHP, cURL, WebP, Cloudflare **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/php-image-proxy-webp A 30-line PHP proxy that fetches images from a headless CMS, negotiates WebP via Accept header, and caches them with 30-day immutable headers. The whole thing fits in a single file. ### Generative SVG cover system **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/generative-svg-covers **Stack:** PHP, SVG, crc32, Cache-Control **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/generative-svg-covers The cover image on this card was rendered server-side from your slug. No designer, no upload, no asset pipeline. Deterministic geometry + type + cache headers. ### Static-PHP i18n at OVH scale **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/static-php-i18n-ovh **Stack:** PHP, JavaScript, Apache, Cockpit CMS **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/static-php-i18n-ovh An i18n stack that works on cheap shared hosting where mod_rewrite QSA breaks: URL path parsing in PHP + a JS link-rewriter at boot. No frameworks, no build step. ### Colour system generator: one hex, four output formats **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/colour-system-generator **Stack:** HTML, JavaScript, HSL, Design tokens, Tailwind, Figma **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/colour-system-generator Drop in a brand hex. Get an 11-step scale, semantic tokens, dark-mode pairing, and copy-paste output for CSS, Tailwind, SCSS and Figma Tokens. ### Responsive type scale with CSS clamp(), no media queries **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/responsive-type-scale **Stack:** HTML, CSS, clamp(), Modular scale, Typography, Design tokens **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/responsive-type-scale A fluid modular type scale that resizes between two viewport widths with a single clamp() declaration per heading. Pick base + ratio, copy CSS + Tailwind config. ### Social Image Generator — a travel agency post studio **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/social-image-generator **Stack:** React, html2canvas, Babel Standalone, Vercel **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/social-image-generator A browser-based tool that generates ready-to-download social media posts — 1:1 and 9:16 — for a travel agency. Fill in a few fields, pick a layout, drop a photo, download PNG. ### Lost Room — WebXR **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/webxr-lost-room **Stack:** Three.js, WebXR, WebGL, importmap **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/webxr-lost-room A small 3D room that exists between dimensions. Drift through it with a mouse, or step inside with a VR headset. ### Jofit — ML wellness coach **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/jofit **Stack:** Next.js, PWA, Machine Learning, Drizzle, Recharts, TypeScript **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/jofit A fitness & wellness PWA that turns water intake, training load and blood-work into one ranked daily suggestion — each tagged by urgency tier and linked to its source paper. ### presend — an MCP that grades your draft before you hit send **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/presend **Stack:** TypeScript, MCP, stdio, Claude Code **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/presend An MCP server you point at any draft — email, LinkedIn, proposal, performance review — and it scores it 0–10, flags risky phrasing, and rewrites on demand. No API keys, no outbound calls: the host LLM does the analysis. ### DB Neuron Graph: your database as a 3D brain **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/neuron-db-graph **Stack:** 3D-force-graph, Three.js, d3-force-3d, WebGL **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/neuron-db-graph Database records as a 3D neuron-like brain — every node a record, every thread a relation, every pulse a synapse firing. ~500 sample records, force-directed in WebGL. ### World Cup 2026 probability simulator **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/worldcup-probability **Stack:** JavaScript, Web Workers, Monte Carlo, Elo, SVG **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/worldcup-probability Who will win the World Cup 2026? We simulate up to a million tournaments in your browser — Elo ratings, Poisson goals, live results — and let you explore every team's odds, bracket path and upset potential. ### Resonance **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/resonance **Stack:** Three.js, WebGL2, GLSL, Web Audio API **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/resonance A real-time WebGL experience in three scenes — a raymarched dreamscape, a 340k-particle field, and an audio-reactive nebula — each of which periodically reforms into the amplified® wordmark. ### Diorama — a room you can rearrange **URL:** https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/diorama **Stack:** Three.js, WebGL, Postprocessing, Procedural **Repository:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs/tree/main/diorama An isometric cutaway room, rendered in real time. Drag furniture across a snap grid, recolour every piece, re-skin the walls and floor, and swap whole moods with one click. Fully procedural — no models, no textures, no build step. --- ## FAQ **Q: How do you actually price a project?** A: Per case, and you get the number before you commit to anything. Most of what reaches us now is a hard problem in the six figures — that is a description of our inbox, not a floor. We have taken much smaller projects and will again. What actually moves the number is latitude, not size: a brief that leaves us room to decide how the thing should work is a different job from one that is already specified down to the last screen, and we price it differently. Some of the work we are proudest of came in well under our usual rate because we were trusted to make the calls. Mechanically: builds are scoped in two-week sprints at a fixed senior-team rate, never hourly; products move to a retainer or revenue-share once telemetry lands. Tell us the problem and the budget you have — if it is not a fit you will hear it on the first call, not after a proposal. **Q: How long does a typical engagement take?** A: A focused build runs 6–14 weeks from kickoff to launch. Discovery + Define is the first 2–3 weeks; you can stop after that with a deliverable in hand. We don't do open-ended retainers without a roadmap. **Q: Who actually does the work?** A: The senior engineers and designers you meet on the first call. No hand-off to juniors, no offshore subcontracting, no agency-bait-and-switch. Small team by design. **Q: Do you work outside Portugal?** A: Yes — we ship for clients across the EU, UK, US and the Gulf. The studio is fully remote with team across Leiria & Lisboa; the work happens wherever it has to. Async-friendly, weekly demos, on-site when it matters. **Q: Will you NDA / IP-assign upfront?** A: Always. Mutual NDA before the first call if needed, full IP assignment on delivery as standard. We never reuse client code or designs across engagements. **Q: Can you take over an existing build?** A: Yes. We've inherited stacks from agencies, freelancers and ex-CTOs. We diligence first (1-week paid audit), then propose a stabilise-then-ship plan with a clear hand-off path back to your team if you want one. **Q: What technologies do you work with?** A: Backend: Node, Python, PHP, Go. Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue, native Swift/Kotlin. 3D / VR: Unity, Unreal, WebGL, Three.js, Matterport. We pick the stack that fits the problem, not the trend cycle. **Q: What happens after launch?** A: You can take it in-house, or stay on a retainer for telemetry, iteration, content and paid acquisition. Either way, you get full source, full ownership and full documentation. No vendor lock-in. **Q: How do you handle data, privacy and GDPR?** A: We're a Portuguese company subject to EU GDPR. All client data stays in EU regions, encrypted at rest and in transit. We sign DPAs on request and run privacy reviews before launch on every consumer-facing build. **Q: What's the smallest project you'll take?** A: A single sprint — typically a focused prototype, brand refresh or technical audit. We don't do hourly billing. **Q: Do you work with non-tech founders?** A: Often. Half our clients can't read code. We translate technical decisions into business consequences and document everything so you can hand it to your next CTO without a migration project. **Q: When are you the wrong studio?** A: When you want the cheapest quote — we bill a fixed senior-team rate, never by the hour, and we are rarely the lowest number. When you need a body-shop to execute a spec somebody else wrote; we argue about the problem first, and if the brief is wrong we will say so. When the work is a one-off asset with no product behind it — a single banner, a logo on its own, a landing page for a campaign that ends in three weeks. When you need a team of twenty by Monday: we are three senior people by design and we do not subcontract the work out to strangers. 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