Samsung Partners IIT-Jodhpur to Set Up Samsung AR-VR Innovation Lab Under its Digital Academy Initiative

CIOReviewIndia Team | Friday, 20 November 2020, 08:57 IST

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Today, Samsung India inaugurated that Samsung AR-VR Innovation Lab at IIT-Jodhpur. It takes the total count of such labs under the Samsung Digital Academy initiative to seven, thereby strengthening its commitment for the government’s Skill India mission. It further fosters the Digital India initiative.

For training students on new technologies like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), and guiding them in learning industry-relevant skills to become job ready, the Samsung AR-VR Innovation Lab at IIT-Jodhpur is inaugurated.

Samsung Corporate’s Samsung Digital Academy is a social initiative aiming for bridging the digital divide and proficiency gaps in the country by skilling the students on cutting-edge technology.

Samsung engineers will conduct the courses at the lab in conjunction with the faculty of IIT-Jodhpur. The courses will be offered to B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD students by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT-Jodhpur. Every year, a batch of 30-35 students will get training and research fellows will conduct experiments in the lab.

Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, and Dr. Mugdha Sinha, Secretary to Government, Art, Literature, Culture and Archaeology and Director General, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Rajasthan, virtually inaugurated the Samsung AR/VR Innovation Lab at IIT-Jodhpur.

Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, said, “Samsung Digital Academy is a great initiative to bring one of the finest global technology leaders, Samsung and IIT Jodhpur together to form a lab dedicated for technological innovations. Samsung has a strong grip on every technology they use and I am certain that the innovation Lab at IIT- Jodhpur will enable the students to explore various technological territories and come up with discoveries and endless possibilities.”

“Samsung R&D Institute India, Delhi has been working closely for many years with premiere engineering institutions of India to foster collaborations for joint teaching, mentoring and promoting research on advanced and emerging technologies. This new Samsung Innovation Lab at IIT-Jodhpur would specialize in AR/VR and help students pursue this disruptive innovation. We are committed to work in the field of next generation technology development and participate in the growth of advanced research areas through the network of Samsung Innovation Labs under the Samsung Digital Academy program,” said Deokho Kim, Managing Director, Samsung Research & Development Institute, Delhi.

“At Samsung, we aim to cultivate a culture of innovation among students and help create strong infrastructure at top academic institutions in the country. The first Samsung Innovation Lab started in 2017 as part of our citizenship initiatives and since then we have seen several other come up where students have been up-skilled on new-age technologies such as IoT and pervasive computing. These labs have also been used by students and faculty at the IITs for collaborative research with Samsung engineers. We are confident that Samsung Innovation Lab will help students leverage the growing digital technologies market and develop their talent,” said Peter Rhee, Corporate Vice President, Samsung India.

“This lab will provide opportunity to the students to get exposed to different aspects of AR and VR technologies. As AR and VR is finding applications in diverse fields like education, industrial design, robotics, infrastructure management and medicine, students of different programs of the institute including those of Medical Technology can take advantage of this facility,” said Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Director IIT Jodhpur.

The curriculum includes Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, and it specially emphasizes on touch sensitivity, haptics, taste, smell, robotic interfaces, telepresence, and brain-machine interfaces. In a 14-week session, the course will be conducted in classroom lectures, assignments, and lab room sessions, where self-study and mini projects are also its parts. Students will also get extensive tutorials and approach documents for practical exercises.

In IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Hyderabad, IIT-Kharagpur, IIR-Roorke, and IIT-Guwahati, there are Samsung Innovation Labs as part of the Samsung Digital Academy program. With over 800 IIT students till now, these labs have focus on collaborative research with Samsung and course/training by Samsung.

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