Türkiye's First VR Movie to Be Shot

Türkiye's first VR film is being shot. The short film "Neo Renaissance" by Tuna Tetik, a graduate of the Bahçeşehir University Department of Cinema and Television who will direct the film, was screened at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

Director Tuna Tetik said: "VR, virtual reality technology, is currently a very new medium. The fascination of this medium comes from the fact that it cannot be confined to a single field. It is a technology used not only in cinema but also in many fields such as education, advertising, gaming and healthcare."

Tetik said: "This technology is changing and transforming our classic language of storytelling. We are planning to make a feature film using this technology. I am directing this project. But it would be more accurate to put it this way: in projects using VR technology, that is, virtual reality, we can now say that the viewer sits in the director's chair. Because, unlike a normal film, this technology offers the viewer a 360-degree viewing experience. There are many laboratories developing around the world that use this technology. Bahçeşehir VR First Laboratory is one of the pioneers. We can even say that it is one of the first in Türkiye. Within this laboratory, we have brought together many international and national digital designers and started the pre-production phase for our film. I used the term feature film, but since VR technology is experienced through virtual reality headsets, it is not quite right to call works using this technology 'films' in quotation marks. Because experiencing is now replacing watching. In other words, what we are doing here is actually designing an experience. That is why this VR design is taking a pioneering place in the sector."