# 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:** 2026-10-24 · Full content: https://amplifiedcreations.com/llms-full.txt ## About - **Legal name:** Amplified Creations - Informática e Gestão, Lda. - **Founded:** 2014 - **Projects delivered:** 110 since 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 ## 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 - **Property virtual tours in Portugal: what they cost, how long they take and where to publish them** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/visita-virtual-imoveis-guia) — 2026-10-21 — A practical guide for estate agencies: what a virtual tour of a property costs, how long it takes, how to add it to Idealista and Imovirtual, and what the law asks of th… - **Virtual tours on construction sites: 8 ideas, from the crane cab to seeing through walls** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/virtual-tours-construction-sites) — 2026-10-08 — Construction companies want to show their sites as modern work. The same 360° capture also gives a walkable timeline of every phase, design versus as-built, tours from t… - **OpenAI Dots and the AI agents that keep working when you close the laptop** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/ai-agents-that-keep-working) — 2026-10-02 — OpenAI’s new Dots run on their own cloud computer and keep going after you log off, joining Meta’s Muse, Google’s Gemini Spark and Microsoft’s Scout. What they do, why i… - **AMD is buying World Labs: what AI world models mean for 3D, VR and virtual tours** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/amd-world-labs-world-models) — 2026-10-01 — AMD will pay about $8.2 billion for Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, the startup that turns photos and text into walkable 3D worlds. Why a chipmaker wants it, and what generated… - **Radar: every public tender in Portugal on one free page** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/radar-public-tenders-portugal) — 2026-09-30 — Every public tender in Portugal on one free page: notices from BASE, Diário da República and TED, searchable by sector and district, on a live map. We built it so we wou… - **Virtual Tours for Real Estate: What Works and What Is Just a Gimmick** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/visita-virtual-imobiliario) — 2026-09-29 — A well-made virtual tour lifts conversion on a property a lot; a badly made one does nothing. What years of real-estate tours taught us: 3D is mostly a gimmick, 360° pho… - **VR in Portuguese Healthcare: What Is in Use and What INFARMED Requires** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/realidade-virtual-saude-portugal) — 2026-09-28 — Virtual reality is already used in Portuguese hospitals, clinics and care homes as a non-drug complement to care. What it is used for today, who runs the sessions, and w… - **Automotive Photography in Portugal: Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Hyundai** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/fotografia-automovel-portugal) — 2026-09-27 — Automotive photography for brands and dealers in Portugal: how we work with Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Hyundai, from the studio to the road. And what to ask an automotiv… - **360° Virtual Tours in Portugal: Seven Projects and What Each One Is For** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/tours-virtuais-360-portugal) — 2026-09-26 — A 360° virtual tour does far more than marketing: it preserves heritage, prepares touring productions and onboards staff. Seven of our projects in Portugal, from the Por… - **A business card that is an app** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/a-business-card-that-is-an-app) — 2026-09-25 — We replaced our paper business cards with one web address per person: a profile, a pocket card the QR code opens, and an installed app that shows the QR — even without s… - **Give an AI agent a goal and a way in, and it will use both** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/give-an-ai-agent-the-keys) — 2026-09-24 — An OpenAI agent doing harmless research got into an Australian government portal it was never meant to reach. A Gemini model in a security test guessed its way into thre… - **VR just turned into a pair of glasses** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/vr-just-turned-into-glasses) — 2026-09-23 — At Connect, Meta showed VR glasses that weigh about 100 grams, with the battery and the chip moved to a puck in your pocket. They arrive in spring 2027 and cost $1,299.9… - **The EU AI Act after the Omnibus: what applies now, and what moved** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/eu-ai-act-after-the-omnibus) — 2026-09-22 — The high-risk rules moved to December 2027 and August 2028. The transparency rules did not move at all — they have applied since 2 August. A plain map of where the EU AI… - **Amazon blocked Meta's AI agent. It had a point.** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/journal/amazon-blocked-metas-ai-agent) — 2026-09-21 — Meta's Muse shopped on Amazon with its users' passwords and without saying what it was. Amazon switched it off. Strip away the corporate rivalry and the question is one… ## Lab - **Queasy Street: why VR makes you sick, and how to stop it** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/vr-motion-sickness-test) — A VR motion sickness test you can play. Start at zero on a quiet street, then break it: camera motion, a car reversing beside you, mirrored sound, frame rate, lag, a slo… - **Radar — where the country is buying** (https://amplifiedcreations.com/lab/radar) — Every public tender in Portugal on one page, searchable by sector and district, on a map drawn in ridge lines whose peaks rise with what is being bought. - **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. ## 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)