About Palatial

Our story

Palatial is the tool we wish we had when we were building XR experiences over the past 10 years.

2022 • August

Day one

Palatial is founded as a design communication platform, initially pitched as Google Docs for 3D.

2022 • December

MVP 1

After interviewing hundreds of developers and designers, the team begins working on the first MVP. Volley Studio agrees to send a test model and we spend a week optimizing it.

2023 • February

Pivot

With feedback from design professionals around the world, Palatial pivots to focus on building automations to connect the gaps in 3D data pipelines.

2023 • July

MVP 2

The team demos MVP 2 to Epic Games, automatically optimizing a Revit model for Unreal and outputting a Pixelstream. The same test model from Volley Studio now takes 2 hours to optimize.

2024 • March

Alpha testing begins

After 8 months of customer interviews, design, and engineering, Palatial is released to the first batch of testers. Ther's still a long ways to go, but the feedback is overwhelmingly positive.

Our vision

We believe that any creator should be able to build anything without limits. Palatial is connecting spatial ideas, 3D assets, and creative platforms to close the gap between realities.

Team

Want to join us? Shoot us a message at info@palatialxr.com

Steven Ren

CEO

Steven graduated as class valedictorian from Cornell University where he helped pioneer a research studio exploring VR for design. He brings 8 years of XR expertise from companies like Tesla and SOM.

Chris Healer

CTO

Chris has spent 20 years in the VFX and XR industries and has supervised over 300 tv shows and feature films. He has typed over 10 million lines of code, spoken at Siggraph, and is a serial entrepreneur.

Lucy Yu

CPO

Lucy graduated with distinction from Cornell University, where she studied architecture. Previously, she led innovation strategy and AI product design at Gensler and IBM.

Corina Dow

Technical Product Manager

Corina graduated from SCI-arc with a degree in architecture and from Coding Dojo as a full stack developer. She has worked on a wide range of projects ranging from fashion to hydraulic design.

David Godfrey

C++ Developer

David holds a degree in computer science from the College of New Rochelle. He has a strong technical knowledge of low level languages, and is driven by a passion for data structures and complex systems.

Kevin Výlet

Unreal C++ Developer

Kevin holds a degree in CS from UCSC with a specialization in game dev. He has developed a breadth of real-time experiences for clients that include Apple and the US Air Force.

Mike Klausmeier

Advisor

Mike founded Volley Studio and has worked with global real estate developers and brands, including SKII, JP Morgan, and Related. He brings nearly two decades of CG visualization experience.

Mohit Shukla

Designer

Mohit graduated from Pratt Institute where he specialized in robotics and XR technologies. He brings experience across interactive experience and UX design.