Turkey's XR Association
Connecting Turkey's XR professionals with European peers and helping to make XR in Turkey a reality
Turkey's XR Association
Connecting Turkey's XR professionals with European peers and helping to make XR in Turkey a reality
OUR MEMBERS
Michael Barngrover
Michael Barngrover
Michael Barngrover
Michael is the founder of Raptor Dance Studios, an Istanbul-based XR design and development company. He is a phd student researching collaboration in virtual spaces and organizes the ZeroEvent series of multiuser VR platform explorations for the international XR Crowd.
Batuhan Basal
Michael Barngrover
Michael Barngrover
Batuhan served as General Manager of HTC Turkey and oversaw the official introduction of the Vive, Vive Plus, Cosmos, and Focus Plus headsets to the Turkish market. He's led extensive efforts to development the capacity of the enterprise VR sector in Turkey.
Egemen Ertuğrul
Michael Barngrover
Egemen Ertuğrul
Egemen is a VR/AR researcher, software developer, and cyberpunk enthusiast. His research interests include Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, and Ubiquitous Computing.
He's experienced developing novel and intuitive user experiences that are powered by machine learning and multi-users for the
Egemen is a VR/AR researcher, software developer, and cyberpunk enthusiast. His research interests include Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, and Ubiquitous Computing.
He's experienced developing novel and intuitive user experiences that are powered by machine learning and multi-users for the web, desktop, and mobile platforms. He is currently focused on achieving real-time 3D articulated hand pose estimation from monocular RGB to enable novel input on low-end mobile VR/AR.
Fırat Kaçmaz
Virgile Mangiavillano
Egemen Ertuğrul
Founder and head of product at Medex Lab. Firat has been working with AR / VR SDK`s since 2015. His team has created holographic patient examination simulations for the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. He is currently working with Hacettepe University faculty of medicine to develop a healthcare education app.
Virgile Mangiavillano
Virgile Mangiavillano
Virgile Mangiavillano
- Founder & CEO of Virgile Film https://virgilefilm.com , Creative Producer.
- Founder : Virtual Reality club at Saint Benoit high school in 2017.
- Actor for Turkish cinema and television www.imdb.me/virgile
- Coordinator : Digital Research Development Committee | Comité Développement Recherche Numérique | Dijital Araştırma ve Geliştirme
- Founder & CEO of Virgile Film https://virgilefilm.com , Creative Producer.
- Founder : Virtual Reality club at Saint Benoit high school in 2017.
- Actor for Turkish cinema and television www.imdb.me/virgile
- Coordinator : Digital Research Development Committee | Comité Développement Recherche Numérique | Dijital Araştırma ve Geliştirme Komitesi
- Pilot : Erasmus+ funded project 'Media and European Citizenship Education' 2020-2022 (Belgium, France, Romania, Turkey).
- Coordinator : International Digital Spring | Printemps Numérique International | Uluslararası Dijital Bahar #numistanbul #sbdijitalbahar https://youtu.be/2UDoRQA7_tI
- Mentor : FIRST international robotic competition www.robin8263.com
- Creator : artificial intelligence hackathon IATHON in cooperation with Google https://youtu.be/19OFPGrQgGw
- Teacher of French, educator, trainer
- Technology integration adviser - Conseiller pédagogique #Numérique - Eğitim Teknololojileri Danışmanı
Hatice Öz Pektaş
Virgile Mangiavillano
Virgile Mangiavillano
Hatice Öz Pektaş is a professor inthe Visual Communication Department of Uskudar University. She is the founder of the Medical Visual Design Technologies Research Group, that focuses on the producing design-oriented solutions in the field of health sciences. It is an initiative that combines medicine, art, design and technology. Her acad
Hatice Öz Pektaş is a professor inthe Visual Communication Department of Uskudar University. She is the founder of the Medical Visual Design Technologies Research Group, that focuses on the producing design-oriented solutions in the field of health sciences. It is an initiative that combines medicine, art, design and technology. Her academic research focuses on the sociology of virtual reality and neurological applications in XR.
Lance G. Powell Jr.
Lance G. Powell Jr.
Lance G. Powell Jr.
Lance G. Powell Jr. is a VR Researcher-in-Residence at the VR First Laboratory at Bahcesehir University, where he also teaches the game department design course Virtual Worlds. Lance has been active in XR hackathons for education, collaborated on social programs in VR like Beyond Recovery, and developed prototypes of VR apps for exercise
Lance G. Powell Jr. is a VR Researcher-in-Residence at the VR First Laboratory at Bahcesehir University, where he also teaches the game department design course Virtual Worlds. Lance has been active in XR hackathons for education, collaborated on social programs in VR like Beyond Recovery, and developed prototypes of VR apps for exercise and film. He has twice presented on Social VR at the Game Developer Conference in Istanbul as well as the Sonar technology and music festival. Lance is active in content creation within VR, producing a blog on VR, the digital magazine Social Life VR Style, and the VR Special YouTube channel. He received an M.A. in Cognitive Science from Bogazici University and he was one of the earliest academic researchers in communication design and harassment in Social VR.
Bora Sezer
Lance G. Powell Jr.
Lance G. Powell Jr.
C. Bora Sezer is an academician at the Istanbul Ozyegin University's Architecture and Design Faculty's Communication department. His MA is from Istanbul Technical University's Information Technologies in Design and he has another MA from the Netherlands Creative Design for Digital Cultures Master Degree from HKU University of the Arts Ut
C. Bora Sezer is an academician at the Istanbul Ozyegin University's Architecture and Design Faculty's Communication department. His MA is from Istanbul Technical University's Information Technologies in Design and he has another MA from the Netherlands Creative Design for Digital Cultures Master Degree from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in the pathway of Game and Interaction. He gives Virtual Reality Design classes to interdisciplinary students as an elective.
His interests concern xtended Reality including virtual and augmented reality, Internet of Things, Game Mechanics and cultural heritage preservation techniques via photogrammetry.
Ertan Toy
Lance G. Powell Jr.
Emrah Uluçay
Ertan is an assistant professor at Graphic Design Department of Yildiz Technical University. Moreover, he is the founder and director of Yildiz Technical University Reality Laboratory, that focuses on the use of extended reality technologies in the fields of art and design.
Emrah Uluçay
İsmail Burak Çendik
Emrah Uluçay
Emrah is an entrepreneur, game designer & developer, and a cadet pilot. He is graduated from ITU Electronics Engineering. His current challenge is to create a globally successful location based mobile AR game.
Ayhan Çerçi
İsmail Burak Çendik
İsmail Burak Çendik
Ayhan has been working on Learning Management Systems, Massive Open Online Courses, Gamification, VR&AR Technology, 3D modelling, synthetic environments, Game-Based Learning, Serious Games and Simulation projects that are both national and international as a Training Technologist, Project Manager, and 3D Modeler for 11 years. Currently, h
Ayhan has been working on Learning Management Systems, Massive Open Online Courses, Gamification, VR&AR Technology, 3D modelling, synthetic environments, Game-Based Learning, Serious Games and Simulation projects that are both national and international as a Training Technologist, Project Manager, and 3D Modeler for 11 years. Currently, he is working on Simulation-Based Training, VR-AR Training projects.
İsmail Burak Çendik
İsmail Burak Çendik
İsmail Burak Çendik
İsmail is the Founder and the Lead Artist of Freya Gameworks, a game art outsourcing studio based in Istanbul. Freya Gameworks creates art assets for a wide range of platforms, but especially for VR. In addition to creating art, İsmail also consults on local and international VR projects, helping to streamline their 3D content production pipelines.