Bora Sezer’s “Deepfakes as a Socially Constructed Technology” article was published as a chapter in the Extended Reality and Media book by Nobel Publications
Bora Sezer’s “Deepfakes as a Socially Constructed Technology” article was published as a chapter in the Extended Reality and Media book by Nobel Publications URL: https://www.nobelyayin.com/genisletilmis-gerceklik-ve-medya-xr-teknolojileri-18824.html Abstract: The...
We participated in the Immersive Design meeting in Ferrara, Italy for the ID4Ex Erasmus Plus project
OzU VR Lab participated in the Immersive Design meeting in Ferrara, Italy for the Erasmus Plus peoject ID4Ex. “ID4Ex – Immersive Design and new Digital Competencies for the Rehabilitation and Valorization of the Built Heritage” is focused on the formation of training...
Another COD325 VR and Immersive Design course is finalized with impressive results
Ozyegin University’s Communication Design Department gives an elective course called Virtual Reality and Immersive Design (COD 325). The course's educational objective is to introduce students to theoretical and practical skills of Design in Virtual Reality. The...
Workshop: Building Meta Worlds via Gravity Sketch with Bora Sezer at BaseSelect Metaverse days
On the 27th of May, we met at the Cercle d’Orient Gallery in Beyoğlu to proceed with a Virtual Reality Workshop. We gathered in groups of 4 with Meta Headsets ( Thanks to the sponsor Meta aka Facebook) and met all in the same digital space in real-time using...
Bora Sezer gave a speech about VR via VR – Creating Game designs with VR glasses for the “Digital Art at the Campus exhibition” organized by Base and 42 Istanbul, sponsored by Akbank Sanat.
Narrative: The need to create virtual environments requires entirely new ways of thinking about design. How equipped are we to tackle this new design space? As the Metaverse journey slowly begins to emerge, Sezer presented on how he creates Immersive Worlds...
OzU VR Lab Researcher Ali Leylekoğlu’s team VTheatron wins first place at the Metaverse Hackathon organized by GameFed
Communication Design Post Graduate Ali Leylekoğlu’s team V-Theatron has won first place at the Metaverse Hackaton orginized by Gamefed. The Champions took home an Oculus Quest Headset as reward. Leylekoğlu is a Communication Design Graduate interested in...
The Design Interactions & OZU VR Labs presented their latest groundwork at the Euromersive Turkey Research Showcase in the Metaverse
The Design Interactions Lab and OzU VR Lab presented their recent research "Exploring the Spatial Thinking Process in Physical and Virtual Realities through Child-Object Interaction: A Case of Hand Tracking in VR" at the Euromersive Turkey Research Showcase....
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...
