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Build Worlds That Feel Impossibly Real

Immersive experiences live or die on visual quality. We provide specialized image editing for VR/AR developers — from 360-degree panoramas to texture maps, HDRI environments to UI overlays.

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Build Worlds That Feel Impossibly Real

Immersive experiences live or die on visual quality. We provide specialized image editing for VR/AR developers — from 360-degree panoramas to texture maps, HDRI environments to UI overlays. Every pixel matters when it's 2 inches from someone's eyes.

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200+ XR Studios Served

500K+ Assets Processed

8K+ Resolution Support

Person wearing VR headset in immersive environment

8K Stereo Ready

Zero Artifacts

Headset-grade quality

The Challenge

In VR, Every Flaw Is 10x More Visible

On a phone screen, a slightly blurry texture is forgivable. But in a VR headset, that same texture is stretched across your entire field of view, magnified, and inches from your eyes. Compression artifacts become distracting smudges. Color banding becomes visible stepping. Low-resolution environment maps break immersion instantly.

AR has its own demands — transparent overlays need pixel-perfect alpha channels, lighting must match the real world, and every asset needs to render instantly on mobile hardware without visible loading.

We understand these XR-specific constraints. Our editors work with headset-calibrated displays and deliver assets that maintain visual fidelity at the extreme resolutions and frame rates immersive experiences demand.

VR development environment with 3D models

90fps

Asset-Optimized Delivery

XR Services

Image Editing Built for Immersive Worlds

From 360-degree environments to UI micro-assets, we cover every visual need VR/AR creators face.

360 degree panoramic environment

360° Panorama Editing

Seamless stitching correction, exposure balancing, nadir/zenith patching, and color grading for equirectangular panoramas. No visible seams at any head angle.

HDRI environment map

HDRI Environment Maps

High dynamic range editing for environment lighting. We clean, color-grade, and optimize HDRIs that provide photorealistic lighting and reflections in your 3D scenes.

PBR texture materials

Texture & PBR Map Editing

Albedo, normal, roughness, metallic, and ambient occlusion maps — cleaned, seamless-tiled, and resolution-matched for real-time PBR rendering in Unity or Unreal.

AR user interface overlay

AR UI & Overlay Assets

Transparent PNG/EXR overlays, HUD elements, and spatial UI assets with pixel-perfect alpha channels. Optimized for real-time compositing on mobile AR hardware.

Virtual environment skybox

Skybox & Environment Art

6-face cubemap editing, sky gradients, atmospheric effects, and time-of-day variants. Seamless across all edges for wrap-around VR environments that feel infinite.

Stereoscopic 3D content

Stereoscopic & Depth Editing

Left/right eye stereo pair correction, depth map refinement, and parallax optimization for 3DoF and 6DoF VR content that looks naturally three-dimensional.

Who We Work With

Built for the Entire XR Ecosystem

VR Game Studios

Texture maps, environment art, UI sprites, and marketing screenshots for Quest, PSVR, SteamVR, and other platforms.

AR App Developers

Transparent overlays, 3D asset textures, and marker images for ARKit, ARCore, and WebXR applications.

Virtual Tour Creators

360-degree panorama editing for Matterport, Kuula, and custom virtual tour platforms used in real estate, hospitality, and museums.

Training & Simulation

High-fidelity textures and environments for medical, military, industrial, and educational VR training simulations.

Workflow

From Raw Assets to Headset-Ready in 4 Steps

Upload Assets

EXR, HDR, PNG, TIFF, PSD — any format, any resolution up to 16K.

Define Pipeline

Specify engine, platform, resolution, and format requirements. We save your pipeline preset.

Expert Processing

XR-specialist editors process every asset. QC verified on calibrated displays.

Import & Ship

Engine-ready assets, organized by type. Drag into Unity/Unreal and build.

XR Creators Love Us

Trusted by Studios Building the Future

"Our Quest game needed 200+ PBR textures cleaned and optimized. Pro Pixel Agency delivered seamless, artifact-free maps that looked incredible in-headset. They understood the difference between screen-quality and VR-quality — most editors don't."

Marcus Lee

Marcus Lee

Art Director, Nebula VR Games

"We create virtual property tours for luxury real estate. The 360-degree photo editing from Pro Pixel Agency is flawless — perfect exposure blending, no stitching artifacts, and the color accuracy clients demand. Our tour quality tripled overnight."

Sofia Reyes

Sofia Reyes

CEO, ImmerseTours 360

"Building AR apps on mobile means every kilobyte matters. Pro Pixel Agency optimizes our overlay assets to be incredibly small without losing the alpha channel precision we need. Load times dropped 40% and visual quality actually improved."

Jake Thornton

Jake Thornton

Lead Developer, Spatial Labs

Pricing

XR-Grade Quality at Indie-Friendly Prices

From solo indie devs to AAA VR studios — pricing that scales with your project.

Indie

$1.99 per asset

Texture Cleanup

Color Correction

Up to 4K Resolution

24-Hour Delivery

BEST FOR XR STUDIOS

Studio Pro

$3.99 per asset

Everything in Indie

PBR Map Full Set

Up to 8K Resolution

360° Panorama Editing

12-Hour Delivery

Enterprise

Custom

volume pricing

Everything in Studio

16K+ Resolution

API Pipeline Access

Dedicated XR Editor

4-Hour Rush Available

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Questions XR Creators Ask

Do your editors understand PBR material workflows?

Yes. Our XR team understands the full PBR pipeline — albedo, normal, roughness, metallic, AO, height, and emissive maps. We know how each map affects the final material appearance in Unity URP/HDRP and Unreal Engine, and we edit accordingly.

Can you handle 360-degree equirectangular panoramas?

Absolutely. We edit equirectangular projections with full awareness of the distortion characteristics. Seam correction, nadir/zenith patching, exposure blending, and tripod removal — all while maintaining perfect spherical continuity.

What resolution and formats do you support?

We work with resolutions up to 16K and support EXR (16/32-bit), HDR, PNG (8/16-bit), TIFF, PSD, TGA, and DDS formats. We deliver in whatever format your engine pipeline requires — including mip-mapped DDS for DirectX or ASTC-compressed textures for mobile.

Can you optimize textures for mobile VR (Quest)?

Yes — mobile VR is one of our specialties. We understand the strict memory and GPU budgets of Quest and similar standalone headsets. We optimize textures for ASTC compression, create appropriate mip chains, and reduce atlas sizes while maintaining visual fidelity at headset viewing distances.

Can I try before committing?

Of course. Send us 3 assets — textures, panoramas, or overlays — and we'll process them free using our full XR pipeline. Test them in your engine, check them in-headset, and decide. No credit card, no commitment.

Use Cases

XR Industries We Power With Perfect Visuals

VR and AR are transforming every industry. Here's where our image editing makes the biggest impact.

VR gaming environment

Gaming & Entertainment

Textures, environments, UI sprites

VR real estate virtual tour

Real Estate Tours

360° panoramas, virtual staging

Medical VR training

Medical & Healthcare

Surgical training, anatomy models

AR retail and e-commerce

Retail & E-Commerce

AR try-on, 3D product views

VR corporate training

Corporate Training

Onboarding, safety, soft skills

VR tourism and hospitality

Tourism & Hospitality

Virtual hotel tours, destination previews

Architecture VR visualization

Architecture & AEC

Walkthroughs, design review

Educational VR content

Education & Museums

Immersive learning, virtual exhibits

Our Tech Stack

Engine-Aware Editing That Ships Production-Ready

We don't just edit images — we understand your rendering pipeline. Every asset we deliver is optimized for the specific engine, platform, and hardware your project targets. No surprises when you import.

Unity URP / HDRP Compatible

Textures formatted for Unity's render pipelines with correct channel packing and compression presets

Unreal Engine 5 Ready

Nanite-aware textures, Lumen-compatible HDRIs, and virtual texture streaming optimized assets

Mobile XR Optimization (Quest / Vision Pro)

ASTC/ETC2 compressed textures with minimal memory footprint for standalone headset GPU budgets

WebXR / Three.js Compatible

Lightweight WebGL-optimized textures, KTX2 format support, and progressive loading for browser-based XR

Headset-Calibrated QC

Every asset reviewed on calibrated displays. Critical textures verified in-headset before delivery

VR development setup with dual monitors

Engine-Aware

Unity + Unreal + WebXR

Case Study

How a VR Studio Cut Texture Pipeline Time by 60%

Nebula VR Games studio

Nebula VR Games

Quest & PCVR Game Studio, Austin TX

Nebula VR was building a fantasy RPG for Quest with over 800 unique PBR materials. Their 3-person art team was spending 40% of development time on texture cleanup, seamless tiling, and compression optimization — leaving less time for actual content creation.

After integrating Pro Pixel Agency into their pipeline, they sent raw photoscanned textures and hand-painted maps to us for cleanup, PBR channel generation, seamless tiling, and Quest-optimized compression. Their art team reclaimed 60% of texture pipeline time, shipped the game 2 months ahead of schedule, and the visual quality reviewers specifically called out as "impressive for a standalone headset."

60% Pipeline Time Saved

800+ Materials Processed

2mo

Ahead of Schedule

Marcus Lee

Marcus Lee

Art Director, Nebula VR Games

Challenges We Solve

XR Image Problems That Break Immersion

Compression Artifacts in VR

Standard JPEG compression creates blocking and banding that's invisible on screens but glaringly obvious when magnified in a headset at close range.

Artifact-free, lossless-quality delivery

Visible Texture Seams

Tiling textures that look seamless on a flat screen reveal obvious repeat patterns and edge seams when wrapped around 3D objects in VR environments.

Truly seamless tiling at any viewing angle

360° Stitching Errors

Panoramic stitching software leaves ghosting, parallax errors, and exposure mismatches at seam lines — breaking the illusion when users look around.

Manual seam correction, zero ghosting

GPU Memory Blowouts

Unoptimized textures eat GPU VRAM instantly on standalone headsets. One 4K uncompressed texture can use 64MB — you only have ~6GB total on Quest.

ASTC compressed, mip-mapped, budget-aware

Color Banding in HDR

8-bit environment maps show visible stepping in sky gradients and smooth surfaces. In VR, color banding is amplified and distracting, especially in dark scenes.

16/32-bit HDR with smooth gradients

Alpha Channel Fringing

AR overlays with imperfect alpha channels show ugly white fringing around transparent edges. On real-world backgrounds, this instantly breaks the AR illusion.

Pixel-perfect alpha with premultiplied edges

200+ XR Studios Worldwide

500K+ XR Assets Processed

16K Max Resolution

99% Studio Satisfaction

Build Immersive Worlds
With Flawless Visuals

Join 200+ XR studios who trust us with their visual assets. Start with a free trial — 3 assets, your pipeline specs, zero commitment.

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