Virtual Bethel

In 2016, Bethel AME Church, the oldest African American church of Indianapolis, sold their historic building, located in downtown Indy. However, before they sold it, they arranged for a digital archive of the space to be created.

Environment asset generation was essentially finished by the time I joined the project. My role then was to fully realize the environment as a living archive of the history of the church in a VR space. My primary contributions were:

- Iterative design and development of the archive’s content display systems in VR
- Technical art direction (fixing lighting, asset adjustment, real-time engine implementation)
- VR user experience testing with non-typical VR user bases, on top of overall VR system development
- Translation of desktop VR assets into a mobile VR application

Software Used: Maya, Photoshop, Unreal, SteamVR, Google Cardboard