Church of Ylivieska (VR)

A project roughly from a year back; a realtime VR visualization of a destroyed location, built with the help of point cloud data and reference photos.

On Easter 2016, the old wooden church of Ylivieska, Finland (built in 1786) was burned down in an arson. A few years prior the church had been laser scanned. I was part of a small team at Centria UAS responsible for building a virtual representation of the location. The end result was a realtime VR visualization, a faithful replica of the interior of the church running on Unity3D with HTC Vive. Both the exterior and interior were modeled, but only the interior was included in the project.

3D Modeling and texturing: Ari Lehtiniemi & Anttoni Porri
Scene setup, lighting and programming: Ari Lehtiniemi
Additional 3D modeling and audio work: Mikko Himanka