TÜBİTAK Support for Virtual Reality

The project "Introduction to, Observation and Application of Virtual Reality for Students" by Assist. Prof. Dr. Övgü Öztürk, faculty member at the BAU Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, has been awarded support under the TÜBİTAK 4004 - Nature Education and Science Schools Projects Support Program.

                                                            
The project, led by Assist. Prof. Dr. Övgü Öztürk, aims to enable students who see and hear about virtual reality technologies in various places in daily life to acquire basic knowledge about this technology, see examples of beneficial use, and learn the basic software tools and components and gain experience so that they can develop their own virtual reality applications.

Another aim is to carry out activities that, by presenting knowledge on various scientific topics learned through conventional methods in a three-dimensional, gamified and highly visual environment, increase students' understanding of and interest in these topics, encourage them to push the limits of their imagination, and help them develop their creative and scientific thinking skills.

 

The project is expected to bring about a positive change in society's view of virtual reality technologies and its level of awareness of them. In hands-on camps and a web environment where they can easily exchange ideas, participants are expected to develop themselves further with the support of experts and gain the basic motivation to create their own applications using this technology.