Bora Sezer spoke at the Vietnam Tech Conference 2022 about The Past, Present, & Future of Virtual Reality
Bora Sezer spoke at the Vietnam Tech Conference 2022 about “The Past, Present, & Future of Virtual Reality” The Vietnam Tech Conference is organized by Saigon South International School in HCMC and the United Nations International School in Hanoi. It is an...
OzU VR Lab organized a small scale Virtual Hackathon together with Euromersive Turkey” on Hand Tracking Basics with Oculus Quest 2″
On January the 29th, OzU VR Lab and Euromersive's Turkeys (Michael Barngrover) organised a 48-hour remote Zoom Hackathon with Unity and Oculus plugins were explored to figure out how to set up and customize hand tracking scenes. The focus of the collaborative...
OzU VR Lab is collaborating within an Erasmus Plus project focusing on Immersive Design education
OzU VR Lab is collaborating in an Erasmus plus project together with the Drum Lab ( Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology Lab). The project is called; Immersive Design and New Digital Competencies for the Rehabilitation and Valorization of the Built Heritage. The...
Sezer gave a presentation at the VRDays Immersive Tech Week, about “XR in Cultural Heritage and Architecture”
VRdays Istanbul that took place in Kolektif House Maslak, is the first private XR startup event in Istanbul and consists of a four-day process that focuses on a specific sector every day. VRDays Istanbul especially hosted innovative AR/VR products of local...
OzU VR Lab joined the 5th ArtTech forum’s “XR Opportunities in Turkey’s Cultural Sectors” panel
The ArtTech Foundation was created in the spring of 2017 with the aim of establishing a platform for exchange, meetings, and think tanks to help bring together two usually distant worlds. Aiming to develop its activities on a national and international level, the...
Sezer & Sarantopoulos gave a presentation at the Venice VR Expanded Istanbul 2021 satellite program
Bora Sezer and Elias Sarantopoulos gave a presentation about Photogrammetry for Immersive Museum Experiences and showcased two of their Virtual Reality Projects, the Chora Museum and the Panagia Church of Balad at the Venice VR Expanded program. OzU COD and OzU VR Lab...
OzU VR Lab was at the Istanbul Art & Antiques Fair
Istanbul Art and Antique Fair, which has brought our country to an important point in the field of culture and art while representing it on the international platform, was the meeting point of art lovers at the Istanbul Congress Center between 03-07 November. Istanbul...
Senior COD Student develops VR Rehearsal application named V-Theatron
Communication Design department's senior Student Ali Leylekoğlu has developed an interesting VR application working long hours in the OZU VR Lab. The project was a graduation project led by Advisor Assoc. Prof. Simge E. Orhun. The application named V-Theatron was...
Sezer presented about Immersive Museum experiences at the AACCP 2021 conference
Bora Sezer took part in the AACCP 2021 (Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning) conference on the subject of Cultural Heritage and Immersive Museum Experiences, presenting two projects that show how the process took place. AACCP (Architecture,...
Laser Scanning and Virtual Reality study for the Panaghia Paramithia Church
Last week, with the permission of the Orthodox Patriachcy, Lidar specialist Bora Yavuz (http://www.litech.com.tr) and Bora Sezer did a 3D Scanning survey for the Panaghia Paramithia Church in Fener, Balat. In the last decade, the importance of Photogrammetry and Laser...
Founding Euromersive Turkey and our first Zoom Event: On the state of the XR industry in 2020
In September we founded the Euromersive Turkey organization as the Turkish branch of Euromersive, our mission is to promote regional awareness of the talent and XR production in Turkey and to support Turkish XR professionals and academics to reach collaborative...
We have successfully moved to our space in the new Architecture and Design Faculty building
From now on the OzU VR Lab will continue to operate in the 4th Academic building in room B316. The moving and installation procedure took about 3 weeks and the lab is again fully functioning. This semester, the VR Lab will host a 20 student VR Design course along with...
