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...
Robert College consulted OzU VR Lab about how to expand
Today, I visited Robert College and met its educational technology coordinator, Pınar Kadıoğlu. Robert College wants to open a VR Lab regarding Scientific Lab projects and use the benefits of VR for student education. The College is also interested in forming...
“Teaching Virtual Reality and Immersive Design” has been published in the journal of Design Studio and is now accessible online.
The paper mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary aspects of creating virtual worlds and defines teaching methods, course content and course goals along with assigning individual tasks to different students with various interdisciplinary backgrounds as team members....
Using Leapmotion with VR in a self-made piano room setting
In this project, we created a Virtual Piano playing experience with the help of Leap motion. We used a Leap Motion hand gesture recognition sensor for accurately tracking the fingers and appropriate hand gestures. We were able to successfully implement finger tracking...
Both The Architecture and Design Faculty being built and the Dorms currently under construction were demonstrated in VR within the Promotion days
Within the promotion days of the University, our rector Prof. Esra Gencturk kindly requested if we could create a Virtual Tour of the New Architecture and Design faculty currently being built. Later on, she also asked for the Dorms to be presented in VR since they...
OZU VR lab organized a Virtual Reality Workshop within the scope of the Summer Internship Program for High School Students
OZU VR lab organized a Virtual Reality Workshop between 17-21 June 2019 within the scope of Ozyegin University Summer Internship Program for High School Students. The workshop was carried out by Instructor C. Bora Sezer within the participation of 11 high school...
