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Immersive Art Experience
These Turning Heavens: An Aethereal VR Experience
These Turning Heavens is an interactive VR experience that invites its audience into an immersive cosmos where they create and orchestrate celestial bodies. Inspired by Khayyam's verses, players guide starlings – protostars on the brink of life – through transformation and harmony.
As stars move in orbit, each one shapes the celestial soundscape. When the final supernova fades into silent darkness, the vast mystery of the heavens lingers, echoing existence's fragility and grandeur.
The experience was featured at the Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival 2024, the University of Southampton's annual celebration of Humanities and the Arts.
Architectural Design Tool
Dreamscape Bricks VR
Dreamscape Bricks VR is an experimental architectural design tool that lets users create conceptual architectural designs with virtual LEGO brick-like components. The application lets designers embody and navigate their creations at body scale.
The application was designed and developed for my PhD research, powered by Unreal Engine.
Find out more about the DREAMSCAPE project at: oguzdoma.com/dreamscape
Training Simulation
Black Diamond VR: Coal Mine Training
Black Diamond VR is an occupational safety and vocational training application in VR for underground coal miners.
I led the project from early proof-of-concept demos through to the delivered product, covering game design, art direction, level design and project management.
Developed with a serious game approach, Black Diamond VR lets miners experience scenarios ranging from simple workflows to complex case studies and extraordinary conditions in a safe VR environment.
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Players enter an objective-less environment where disorientation, scale shift and spatial ambiguity turn existential theory into playable space.
Broomstick locomotion, pitch navigation and Snitch behaviour come together in a compact fan-made flight prototype.
Exhibition stand design translated into an interactive pre-build visualisation for stakeholder review and production planning.
Guided memorial movement shifts into historical re-enactment, linking contemporary site interpretation with Gallipoli storytelling.
Existing game assets became a heritage walkthrough prototype for testing documentation, atmosphere and site interpretation in real time.
Procedural layout generation meets a user-centred interface for exploring container-based emergency housing scenarios.
Geospecific terrain generation pairs with a physical airsoft trigger prototype for simulation-oriented interaction testing.
Grasshopper-generated bridge alternatives move into real-time visualisation for reviewing waterway superstructure proposals.
Operator sessions, emergency cases and exam modules form the basis of a proof-of-concept training platform.
Room-scale tasks support cognitive assessment through situated problem-solving rather than flat-screen test routines.
Interview scenarios frame interpersonal response, confidence and evaluator feedback as measurable socio-emotional performance.
Orbital movement, celestial bodies and responsive audio create a festival-shown interaction piece inspired by Khayyam’s verses.
Conceptual architectural forms can be built, inhabited and evaluated at body scale within a PhD research prototype.
From proof-of-concept to delivery, this project combined mine-safety workflows, scenario design and serious-game production.
Oguz Orkun Doma, PhD
Architect, XR developer, and lecturer with a PhD in Architectural Design Computing, working across immersive media, level design, serious games, and interactive virtual environments. Experienced in Unreal Engine and real-time production workflows across academic research, teaching, and industry practice.