Virtual ITU

Introduction

VirtualITU is a project that aims to create a virtual world for Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul. The idea comes from the virtual Binghamton University which has been fully completed and can be visited by everyone. The ITU part of the project also offers students an online virtual realty tour of ITU Maslak campus. Currently the project is under the guidance of Prof. Richard Steflik of the Watson School, Department of Computer Science. Any future student who is interested in being a part of the VirtualITU development is welcome to participate to VirtualITU project.

Project Definition

Virtual ITU is 3D-modeled version of the real ITU-MASLAK campus by using sketchUp modeling tool and Open Wonderland virtual world servers. Virtual ITU includes some of the interesting and well-looking buildings of ITU-MASLAK (AYAZAGA) campus that are ITU Mustafa Inan Library, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering building and Faculty of Civil Engineering building. The models of the trees, roads, students and some other objects in SketchUp Warehouse were added to make the Virtual ITU more realistic. The purpose of the project is to turn the project to an open project for any future students who will be responsible for updating and building in other ITU buildings to the project.