MSense The first on-site workshop of the Erasmus+ project EyeCon VR/AR Lab ran from 14 to 18 April 2026 in Çanakkale, hosted by Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMU) and Çanakkale Teknopark at ÇOMU’s Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. Prof. Dr. Zhuanghua Shi, Dr. Artyom Zinchenko and Chunyu Qu travelled from the MSense Lab to work with the Çanakkale team on site.
The week opened with a welcome reception, a lab tour and technical checks of the EEG trigger and VR systems, so that the equipment and workflows shared across the consortium were ready for training and pilot work. Two days of hands-on training followed.
EEG tutorial. Dr. Artyom Zinchenko taught a full day on EEG, from what the scalp-recorded signal is and how it is transmitted, through electrode setup and recording practice, to data quality. The three session decks cover the basis of EEG, preprocessing and ICA in EEGLAB, and ERP averaging with lateralised components.
VR tutorial. A full day on building immersive experiments: setting up a VR task, implementing it, and integrating it with the lab hardware. The lab’s Python VR workshop materials, which build an experiment from a first 3D scene to a complete paradigm with Ursina and pygame, are online for anyone who wants to follow the same path.
Joint discussions aligned the training materials, equipment setup and future pilot studies across the two sites. The programme closed with a cultural exchange and a Çanakkale tour, including Kilitbahir Castle and the Çanakkale Martyrs’ Memorial. The consortium now shares a technical foundation for the research-training week in Munich in September and for the pilot experiments to come.
Learning materials
- EEG Workshop I: three session decks by Artyom Zinchenko
- Python VR workshop: slides, exercises and setup guide, with code on GitHub and the MazeWalker-Py capstone
- Full workshop programme and workshop report
EyeCon VR/AR Lab is an Erasmus+ KA210-VET partnership (2025-1-DE02-KA210-VET-000357923) between LMU Munich, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University and Çanakkale Teknopark, running from November 2025 to May 2027. Project website: xr4vet.eu. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.