Lipke Museum Experience

An educational virtual reality (VR) experience that tells the story of the rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied Riga, in World War 2. 

When the war begins, Zigis, the son of Latvia's best-known human rescuer Žanis Lipke, is eight years old. 

Under the firewood shed in the yard of the family house, a 3x3 meter bunker is dug out, where up to 12 people can hide at the same time. Zigis tells this story as he sees it.

Below is a promo of the project and also a short demo video captured in non-VR.

Technologies used

• Unity

• Blender

• Substance Painter

• Oculus Quest

Role and tasks in project

• Developer

  • Game flow logic

  • Interactable object logic (trigger audio, text and other custom events)

  • Other effects

  • Optimization tasks for developed scenes to work on Oculus Quest

    • Optimizing materials, model and overall scene triangle count, combining objects with same material and/or creating texture atlas

• Artist

  • Creating necessary 3D art assets - mostly prop items

  • Unity scene lighting and light baking

  • Unity scene effects