IIT Madras: Applications for IIT-Madras’ Advanced Diploma in Virtual Reality will open next month. Chennai News – Times of India

Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras and unbroken research and training laboratory Starting an Advanced Diploma Program in virtual reality Will be offered in both online and offline mode. The course will be open to anyone with an engineering background, including students currently enrolled in an engineering degree, anywhere in the country.
The main objective is to meet the growing needs of professionals who are highly skilled in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality (XR) and Haptics technology.
Applications will be available from November 2021 and the first batch will start from January 2022. The course will have an annual admission of 50 students.
The course will be coordinated by IIT Madras The Center of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Haptics has been set up by the ‘Institute of Eminence’ initiative. Indian government.
An MoU regarding this collaboration was signed by Professor Devendra Jalihal, President, Center for Continuing Education (CCE) – IIT Madras and Yathirajan Varadarajan, Director, Monolith Research and Training Labs, a subsidiary of Monolith Asia, a Japanese media communications technology company. was signed. .
Graduates of this course will have potential job opportunities for IT companies, animation industries, architecture, and engineering industries as well as healthcare and media production.

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