01 Challenge
Make virtual events feel worth attending
During the early growth of virtual events, clients needed an online conference environment that felt more engaging and high-value than a standard webcast or webinar interface.
02 Approach
Build presence into the browser experience
I worked as a senior developer on a 3D WebGL event platform designed to replicate presence, movement, exploration, and session participation inside a browser-based experience.
03 Execution
Integration and performance under the surface
My role covered Unity-to-frontend integration, AWS-backed streaming asset delivery, analytics integration, and performance work to help the platform scale for event participation and content-heavy environments.
04 Outcome
Strong timing, strong adoption
The platform became one of the early successful 3D WebGL virtual conference products during the virtual events boom and contributed to award-recognised client delivery.
Technical delivery
How the product was shaped
Delivering a 3D conference in a browser meant treating WebGL as a product platform, not a desktop build target. Asset weight, memory, loading order, browser integration and event analytics all affected whether attendees could enter and participate reliably.
Web delivery shaped the architecture
A virtual venue can exceed browser memory and download budgets very quickly. Scenes, textures, video and interactive content were organised around staged loading and reusable assets so the first meaningful experience arrived before the entire environment. Browser constraints influenced content design from the start rather than becoming a final compression exercise.
Connecting Unity to the event platform
The 3D client needed to coexist with ordinary web concerns: authentication and launch context, navigation, external content, analytics and browser focus. JavaScript interop provided the bridge between Unity state and the surrounding site, while hosted asset delivery reduced the size and release coupling of the core WebGL build.
Operational thinking for a live audience
Conference traffic arrives in bursts and attendees use varied hardware. Testing therefore covered load time, memory pressure, quality settings, input behaviour and recovery when an external asset failed. The result demonstrates full product delivery across real-time 3D and the web layer that makes it usable at event scale.