WELCOME TO THE TURKEY CHAPTER OF THE GLOBAL ASSOCIATION FOR VR AND AR

As the Turkish Chapter we welcome all the relevant persons, institutions and entities, -public and private-, to join our association, not just to witness this transformation and disruption, but also to become a part of it, to be an enabler and an actor together.

Istanbul has become such a uniquely dynamic space for various tech creative hubs and innovative companies over the last years. Emerging technologies and innovation is currently a priority on the agenda of companies, organizations and the government; especially VR/AR.

Currently, Istanbul has an incredible crowd of people who are curious, enthusiastic and progressive about future technologies; including students, academics, journalists, science and technology driven creatives, in addition to locally and globally active business. With that, the value of gathering a community with the priorities of open dialogue, curiosity, innovation and R&D on the matter of all things VR/AR/MR is at most.

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Chapter President: Tarcan Kiper turkey@thevrara.com

Tarcan Kiper is the co-founder and CEO of Dors Venabili Cyberspace Technologies Inc., a high-tech firm specialized in Digital Health and VR Therapeutics solutions with its VR/AR based cognitive and physical assessment and training platform.  As an enterpreneur he has more than 30 years of experience in 3D simulation and VR applications in defense, aerospace, transportation and energy industries.  In addition to being one of the pioneers of simulator development in Turkey, he accomplished the first VR project in Turkey in the year 2000, followed by the first Virtual Reality Center development and deployment, and the first VR CAVE system for Virtual Prototyping work for an automotive customer.  Recently he led his team to develop and deliver VR Training Systems for MRO and OHS trainings of hundreds of white-collars and thousands of technicians and blue-collars in various industries. He has been an active lecturer, speaker and author regarding Digital Twin, Virtual Engineering, Virtual Prototyping and Virtual Learning, Education and Training technologies.  He has MSc in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) and BSc in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey).  He is a science fiction and space flights enthusiast, and an Ironman triathlete.