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Royal Caribbean Icon of The Seas

Pixela Labs partnered with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line to transform architectural data into a fully interactive VR environment for design validation, collaboration, and engineering decision-making — powered by Unreal Engine and optimized for high-performance stereo cluster rendering.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) is one of the world’s largest cruise operators. Their ships are not just vessels they are floating cities with hotels, theaters, restaurants, water parks, and complex engineering systems. To manage such large-scale projects, RCCL invests heavily in virtual tools that allow them to visualize, evaluate, and collaborate on ship designs long before physical construction begins. Pixela Labs played a critical role as a technology partner, delivering a robust real-time simulation pipeline.

2019-2025

Year

Digital Twins

Industry

Processing and optimization of interior design scenes

Scope of work

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Background

The project’s biggest challenge was the volume and fragmentation of incoming data. Architectural, engineering, and interior design files arrived in multiple formats (IFC, Revit, DWG, OBJ, and sketch-based non-structured geometry), often incomplete or in-progress. At the same time, architects frequently made design changes that needed to be reflected in VR scenes as quickly as possible. This required a reliable pipeline, advanced optimization techniques, and automation tools for rapid turnaround.

What We Did

Pipeline development

Data restructuring

Multi-format processing

Interior optimization

Rapid update pipeline

Automation tools

Material calibration

Stereo cluster rendering

Custom VR interface

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Outcomes

Fast Updates

Real-time sync

Immersive Scale

1:1 walkthroughs

Visual Quality

Photo + performance

Production VR

Built-in workflow

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