# amplified creations > Independent, fully-remote technology studio across Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal. We design and ship custom VR, AI and immersive product systems for ambitious B2B teams. Founded 2014. Trusted by Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, SONAE, the Portuguese Army, Hyundai and Aston Martin. **Last updated:** 2026-09-21 · Full content: https://amplifiedcreations.com/llms-full.txt ## About - **Legal name:** Amplified Creations - Informática e Gestão, Lda. - **Founded:** 2014 - **Based:** Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal (fully remote, no fixed office) - **Founder & CTO:** Pedro Thomaz - **CEO:** João Thomaz - **Email:** info@amplifiedcreations.com - **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-creations/ - **Open source:** https://github.com/PTthe13/amplifiedlabs — the Lab experiments, MIT, published as we build them - **Languages:** English, Portuguese, Spanish ## What we do Seven in-house disciplines — we never outsource senior work and never hand off to juniors: 1. **3D / Virtual Reality** — Immersive VR systems for clinical settings, cinematic 360° tours, real-time 3D (Unity, Unreal, WebGL, Three.js), Matterport/Insta360 workflows, Class I medical device development 2. **AI Systems** — Claude/LLM setup, prompt systems and agent design, RAG pipelines over your own data, custom AI systems built from scratch (models, infra, evals), workflow automation and internal copilots, fine-tuning and cost/latency optimisation, EU-hosted data privacy 3. **Photography & Video** — Studio, aerial (EASA-licensed), architectural, automotive, product; colour-graded for print/web/broadcast 4. **Webdesign & Engineering** — Marketing sites, internal dashboards, native mobile (Swift/Kotlin/Flutter), headless CMS, CI/CD, legacy migration 5. **Branding** — Identity systems, verbal identity, naming, design system delivery (Figma + tokens + code) 6. **Marketing** — Content engines, paid acquisition (Google/LinkedIn/Meta), lifecycle email, SEO + GEO 7. **Business Strategy** — Productisation, GTM, pricing workshops, org design, investor narrative, technical due-diligence ## Own products - **RVer** (https://rver.pt) — Immersive Virtual Reality for clinical settings. Class I medical device registered with INFARMED under EU MDR 2017/745. 50,000+ sessions delivered, in hospitals, clinics, continuing-care units and senior residences across Portugal. Contexts of use: pain management, anxiety management, rehabilitation, patient experience. - **VRBox** (https://vrbox.io) — 3D virtual tour management and personalisation for Matterport® and 360° tours. Custom branding, interactive hotspots, analytics heatmaps, CRM sync (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive). EU-hosted (OVH, ISO 27001). ## Selected work - **Mercedes-Benz · Photography** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/mercedes-photography) - **Delicious Diamonds · Bespoke Luxury Commerce** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/delicious-diamonds) — 2026 - **TPF · Multi-Purpose Virtual Tour** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/tpf-virtual-tour) — 2026 - **Porsche · Photography** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/porsche-photography) — 2025 - **Hyundai · IONIQ 5 + 5 N** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/hyundai-photography) — 2025 - **Porsche · Virtual Tour** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/porsche-virtual-tour) — 2025 - **RVer · Class I Medical Device** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/rver-class-i-vr) — 2024 - **SONAE × Lichtenstein · Colombo Tour** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/sonae-3d-virtual-tour) — 2024 - **Exército Português · Digital Heritage** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/exercito-virtual-tour) — 2024 - **Teatro D. Maria II · Full-building 3D capture** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/teatro-d-maria-ii) — 2023 - **Convento do Beato · 360 Virtual Tour** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/convento-do-beato) — 2022 - **Castelo de Castro Marim · 14,000 m² heritage capture** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/castelo-de-castro-marim) — 2021 ## Press coverage On **RVer · Class I Medical Device** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/work/rver-class-i-vr): - 2026-09-19 — Jornal de Leiria, "Amplified Creations aplica realidade virtual na saúde" (https://www.jornaldeleiria.pt/noticia/amplified-creations-aplica-realidade-virtual-na-saude) - 2025-12-26 — Cuidados Paliativos ULS Leiria, "O relato do próprio serviço sobre uma sessão de realidade virtual a 360º" (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cuidados-paliativos-uls-leiria-3a9048334_cuidadospaliativos-cuidadospaliativosparatodos-ugcPost-7410286096795979776-l72-/) - 2024-06-11 — Jornal de Leiria, "Tecnologia permite aos utentes dos Cuidados Paliativos viajar sem sair do lugar" (https://www.jornaldeleiria.pt/noticia/tecnologia-permite-aos-utentes-dos-cuidados-paliativos-viajar-sem-sair-do-lugar) - 2024-06-06 — SIC Notícias, "Nos paliativos de Leiria é possível viajar através da realidade virtual, local mais pedido é Fátima" (https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2024-06-06-video-nos-paliativos-de-leiria-e-possivel-viajar-atraves-da-realidade-virtual-local-mais-pedido-e-fatima-1d30e369) - 2022-04-06 — Jornal de Leiria, "Idosos de Alpedriz espreitam o mundo através da realidade virtual" (https://www.jornaldeleiria.pt/index.php/noticia/idosos-de-alpedriz-espreitam-o-mundo-atraves-da-realidade-virtual) ## Journal - **We rebuilt our own site by removing things** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/rebuilt-by-removing) — 2026-09-19 — Two stylesheets, two bundles, two copies of every template — and a flag that had answered the same way for months. What came off, what it weighed, and how we proved noth… - **The tender radar that found nothing on day one** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/tender-radar-day-one) — 2026-09-18 — 210 tenders collected, none of them ours. Instead of loosening the filters, we asked why — and found an encrypted PDF, a €677 alert subscription, and a public API nobody… - **Custom E-Commerce vs Shopify: When Building From Scratch Is the Right Call** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/custom-ecommerce-vs-shopify) — 2026-07-22 — Most brands should use Shopify. Four signals tell you when a custom build is actually the cheaper option — with a real luxury commerce platform as the proof. - **How Much Does a Custom VR App Cost in 2026? An Honest Breakdown** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/custom-vr-app-cost-2026) — 2026-07-17 — What a custom VR app really costs in 2026 — realistic price ranges, what drives the budget, and how to scope a VR product that ships. - **RAG vs Fine-Tuning vs Prompting: How to Choose an AI System for Your Own Data** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/rag-vs-fine-tuning-vs-prompting) — 2026-07-17 — RAG, fine-tuning, or better prompting? A 2026 decision guide for building an AI system on your own data — costs, trade-offs, and when each wins. - **Gaussian splatting in 2026: ready for looks, not for measurement** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/gaussian-splatting-production-ready-2026) — 2026-07-04 — Gaussian splatting produces the most photorealistic 3D captures available — reflections, soft detail, real light. But in 2026 it is production-ready for some jobs and no… - **How much does it cost to build a VR therapy app? A 2026 breakdown** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vr-therapy-app-cost) — 2026-07-04 — A simple VR therapy pilot can start in the low tens of thousands; a regulated Class I medical VR product runs well into six figures. Here is what actually drives the cos… - **What is spatial computing? A 2026 guide to what it is and what it's for** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/what-is-spatial-computing) — 2026-07-04 — Spatial computing is any technology that blends digital content with physical space, so a computer understands and responds to the world around you. Here is a plain-Engl… - **What is a digital twin? A plain guide (and what one costs to build)** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/what-is-a-digital-twin) — 2026-07-04 — A digital twin is a living virtual replica of a real place or object, kept in sync with reality. Here is what that actually means, how we build one from a 3D scan, the r… - **AI glasses won, and almost nobody noticed** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ai-glasses-won-and-nobody-noticed) — 2026-07-04 — For a decade everyone promised the face computer and shipped headsets nobody wore. The device that actually crossed over is the least sci-fi one: ordinary glasses with a… - **AI coding agents didn't replace us — they changed what a day looks like** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/agentic-coding-what-actually-changed) — 2026-07-03 — AI coding agents went from party trick to a normal part of how a small studio ships. An honest account of what they are genuinely good at, what they are still bad at, an… - **Diorama: a 3D room built from primitives, not model files** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/diorama-procedural-room-threejs) — 2026-07-03 — Our new Lab piece is a 3D room with no model files and no textures on disk — every sofa, shelf and plant is built from primitives in code. Here is why procedural beat an… - **The URL is a database you already have** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/url-is-a-database-you-already-have) — 2026-07-02 — Diorama runs on static hosting with no backend, yet you can share the exact room you arranged as a link. The trick: encode the whole app state into the URL hash. Here is… - **How much does a 3D virtual tour cost in 2026?** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/how-much-does-a-virtual-tour-cost) — 2026-06-30 — A professional 3D virtual tour typically costs between €300 and €25,000+, depending on the space, the capture method and how much branding and integration you need. Here… ## Lab - **Diorama — a room you can rearrange** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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 cli… - **Resonance** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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… - **World Cup 2026 probability simulator** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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 od… - **DB Neuron Graph: your database as a 3D brain** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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. - **presend — an MCP that grades your draft before you hit send** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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,… - **Jofit — ML wellness coach** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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 pa… - **Lost Room — WebXR** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/webxr-lost-room) — A small 3D room that exists between dimensions. Drift through it with a mouse, or step inside with a VR headset. - **Social Image Generator — a travel agency post studio** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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, downloa… - **Responsive type scale with CSS clamp(), no media queries** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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. - **Colour system generator: one hex, four output formats** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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. - **PHP image proxy with WebP negotiation** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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… - **Generative SVG cover system** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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. - **Brand colour pipeline tester** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/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. ## Team - **Pedro Thomaz** — Founder & CTO. Technical lead. VR, AI, product strategy, engineering leadership. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrothomaz - **João Thomaz** — CEO. Operations, client relationships, GTM. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joao-fernandes-thomaz-13460412 - **Renato Thomaz** — CFO. Finance, compliance, regulatory. ## How we engage - Discovery: 2–3 weeks, fixed scope, deliverable in hand — you can stop after this - Build: 6–14 week sprints at a fixed senior-team rate - Retainer: post-launch telemetry, iteration, content, paid acquisition - Mutual NDA before first call on request - Full IP assignment on delivery — standard, no extra charge - EU GDPR-compliant, all data in EU regions, DPAs on request - No open-ended retainers without a roadmap - No hourly billing ## Technology stack 3D / VR: Unity, Unreal, Three.js, WebGL, Matterport, Insta360, Blender, Houdini, Sketchfab AI: Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI, LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant), embeddings, fine-tuning, agent frameworks, LangChain, evals & guardrails, MCP, EU-hosted inference Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, TypeScript, TouchDesigner, Tailwind CSS, Vite, D3.js, Framer Motion Backend: Node, Python, PHP, Golang, Rust, Laravel, Express, GraphQL, Prisma Design: Figma, Adobe CC, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, Framer, Procreate, ZBrush, Runway ML, Midjourney, Claude Design Native: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, ARKit, ARCore, SwiftUI, TestFlight Infra: OVH, Cloudflare, Postgres, SQLite, Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Kubernetes, Nginx, AWS, Supabase, Resend, Stripe ## Questions we get asked **How do you actually price a project?** 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. **How long does a typical engagement take?** 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. **Who actually does the work?** 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. **Do you work outside Portugal?** 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. **Will you NDA / IP-assign upfront?** 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. **Can you take over an existing build?** 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. **What technologies do you work with?** 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. **What happens after launch?** 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. **How do you handle data, privacy and GDPR?** 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. **What's the smallest project you'll take?** A single sprint — typically a focused prototype, brand refresh or technical audit. We don't do hourly billing. **Do you work with non-tech founders?** 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. **When are you the wrong studio?** 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. And when the decision has already been made and what you want is someone to agree with it. ## Pages - [Homepage](/) — Studio overview, services, stats, team, products, testimonials, FAQ, contact - [Work index](/work) — All case studies - [Mercedes-Benz · Photography](/work/mercedes-photography) — Case study - [Delicious Diamonds · Bespoke Luxury Commerce](/work/delicious-diamonds) — Case study - [TPF · Multi-Purpose Virtual Tour](/work/tpf-virtual-tour) — Case study - [Porsche · Photography](/work/porsche-photography) — Case study - [Hyundai · IONIQ 5 + 5 N](/work/hyundai-photography) — Case study - [Porsche · Virtual Tour](/work/porsche-virtual-tour) — Case study - [RVer · Class I Medical Device](/work/rver-class-i-vr) — Case study - [SONAE × Lichtenstein · Colombo Tour](/work/sonae-3d-virtual-tour) — Case study - [Exército Português · Digital Heritage](/work/exercito-virtual-tour) — Case study - [Teatro D. Maria II · Full-building 3D capture](/work/teatro-d-maria-ii) — Case study - [Convento do Beato · 360 Virtual Tour](/work/convento-do-beato) — Case study - [Castelo de Castro Marim · 14,000 m² heritage capture](/work/castelo-de-castro-marim) — Case study - [Journal](/journal) — Studio writing, thinking and long-form posts - [Lab](/lab) — Open-source experiments, generative art, shader sketches - [Studio](/team) — The three people behind the studio - [Pedro Thomaz](/team/pedro-thomaz) — Founder & CTO - [João Thomaz](/team/joao-thomaz) — CEO - [Renato Thomaz](/team/renato-thomaz) — CFO - [Capabilities](/capabilities) — One-page studio overview, print-friendly PDF - [Services](/services) — All seven disciplines, with what each covers - [Products](/products) — RVer and VRBox, the studio's own software - [RVer product](/products/rver) — Class I medical device product detail - [VRBox product](/products/vrbox) — Virtual tour platform detail - [3D / VR service](/services/3d-vr) — Service detail - [AI Systems service](/services/ai) — Service detail - [Photography & Video service](/services/photo-video) — Service detail - [Webdesign & Engineering service](/services/web) — Service detail - [Branding service](/services/branding) — Service detail - [Marketing service](/services/marketing) — Service detail - [Business Strategy service](/services/strategy) — Service detail - [Contact](/contact) — Email, who replies, how to brief us - [Book a call](/call) — Schedule an intro - [Press & Media Kit](/press) — Logos, brand colours, founder bio, press contact - [Careers](/careers) — How we hire; no open roles right now - [Manifesto](/manifesto) — Studio principles and operating beliefs - [Sustainability](/sustainability) — Environmental and ethical commitments - [Privacy Policy](/privacy) - [Cookie Policy](/cookies) - [Terms of Service](/terms) - [Accessibility Statement](/accessibility) - [Sitemap](/sitemap.xml) - [Full content for LLMs](/llms-full.txt)