Foundation Course on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

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Last day of registration: 8th August, 2022

 

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SKU: IIT Madras | Date: August 15- Oct 7, 2022 Categories: ,

Description

Mode of workshop: HYBRID
ONLINE Classes for 7 weeks
IN-PERSON project on the 8th week at IIT Madras

Timings: Recorded videos to be uploaded on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of every week for first 7 weeks

Live and interactive online session  on Saturdays of every week   from 6 – 8pm

Brief description of the workshop:

Globally, demand is increasing  for skilled professionals proficient in immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). According to Goldman Sachs reports that the AR/VR industry will be worth $95 billion by 2025. At the same time, running in parallel is AI and machine learning, which are not only becoming mainstream quickly, but are now considered mission-critical for modern business.

The Eight-week Foundation course on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) provides working professionals with the essential Unity3D skills / tools needed to build VR AR apps by better understanding of these emerging technologies. Valuable insights from a distinguished IIT Madras faculty members and Industry leaders will help them to acquire critical knowledge of perceptual engineering and AR VR system design principles.  This program also offers participants a project development workflow to create a presentable prototype. Theoretical concepts will be supplemented with hands-on tutorials via demonstrations and (optional) assignments.

Topics covered per week

WEEK 1: Overview and  Introduction to Immersive Technologies (AR/VR/MR)

Concept covered: Course Mechanic, History, Terminologies, Trends

Learning outcome: To Explore, Understand and Experience various VR and AR demonstration

Recorded video: 18 Videos of 20 min each

WEEK 2: Foundations of Perceptual Engineering

Concept covered: Visual Anatomy and  Perception

Learning outcome: To Explore, Understand perceptual concepts with demos

Recorded video: 18 Videos of 20 min each

WEEK 3: Getting Started with UNITY 3D

Concept covered: Hands on with Unity3D

Learning outcome: Ability to make quick prototype with assets and scripts from store/lib

Recorded video: 18 Videos of 20 min each

WEEK 4: Introduction to Marker Based AR (VUFORIA) and Markerless AR (ARCORE/ARKIT)

Concept covered: AR evolution and types of AR (marker, marker less, AR spark, Gesture based)

Learning outcome: Ability to make quick AR prototype with readily available assets and scripts fro store/lib

Recorded video: 6 Videos of 30 min each

WEEK 5: Introduction 360 VR (3DOF) and OCCULUS QUEST VR (6DOF)

Concept covered: VR evolution Google CARDBOARDVR, 360 VR, 3DOF vs 6DOF, 

Learning outcome: Ability to make quick 360 VR  assets and scripts from store/lib

Recorded video: 6 Videos of 30 min each

WEEK 6: Advanced AR/VR and Industry Usecases

Concept covered: AR /VR systems with IOT, AI and Haptics

Learning outcome: Ability to understand XR technologies value addition for business

Recorded video: 18 Videos of 20 min each

WEEK 7:The Human Centric AR/VR  -UX DESIGN -PROD PIPELINE -GUIDELINES

Concept covered: User Centered Design, User Experience and 3D User Interfaces

Learning outcome: To learn how to define objectives for VR testing and explore VR testing methods

Recorded video: 18 Videos of 20 min each

WEEK 8: VR / AR  Project

8th Week will be offline. Details given in subsequent tab

Session dates: August 15 to October 7th, 2022

Last date of Registration:  August 8th ,2022

Offline Project

During the 8th week of the course, the participants are required to make a new project demonstrating their understanding of the concepts they learnt in the course. They learn many AR/VR projects during the previous 7 weeks of  learning the concepts. Their 8th week project could be a simple extension of existing projects or a novel use-case that may be useful for their organization. The faculty and research scholars in the campus will help them to do the chosen project themselves.

During the 8th week of the course, while the participants are in the campus, they will be immersed into several workshops (Healthcare, Public Sector Use cases etc), demos, panel discussions, site visits of experiential centers, Industries and Startups. The workshops will involve making use of some of the gadgets that are normally not-available for individual users.

KIT Required : The participants are required to own a headset such as Quest-2 and a desktop or laptop that can run one of the Game engines, preferably UNITY3D.

For Accommodation:

Accommodation on campus will be arranged based on availability. The participants bear the cost.

Profile of the Instructor(s)

Prof M.Manivannan,  Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras. He was a visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of Harvard Medical School (HMS) in Boston, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, and a visiting faculty in the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore, and Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He has setup the first Touchlab in India at IIT Madras. In 2021, he has setup first multidisciplinary center for VR and Haptics known as Experiential Technology Innovation Center (XTIC) (https://xtic.org) at IIT Madras.

Eligibility & Fees

Target audience:

Business Leaders, Designers, Developers, Policy Makers who want to know the latest trends in AR/VR​​.

Eligibility criteria: 

Participants have to attend a screening test and the eligible candidates would be allowed to attend the workshop.

First 40 eligible candidates will be permitted for attending the workshop.

Fees breakup for the workshop:

  • Industry: Rs 50,000 + 18%GST = Rs 59,000
  • Faculty : Rs 30,000 + 18%GST = Rs 35,400
  • Student: Rs 20,000 + 18%GST = Rs 23,600

Link for Screening test

Participants have to attend a screening test and the eligible candidates would be allowed to attend the workshop.

First 40 eligible candidates will be permitted for attending the workshop.

Link for test : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfM8OCfjeAr46BI0pX0ndO-P5tYDt1ubZ_3lMM4y08vunGiXg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Certification

Weighted Combination of all these factors: 

  • Final Exams (50%), 
  • Daily Assessment (10%), 
  • Weekly Assignments (30%), 
  • Attendance (10%)
  • Pass Score: 60%(Complete), 75% (Elite), 90% (Gold)

Link to access the course

1 review for Foundation Course on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

  1. Dr Vasanthpriyadharsan G M , Principal, JSR College of Education, Madathukulam Post and Taluk, Tiruppur Dist-642113, Mobile-9443371455 –

    Course is innovative and trend Demand based. It will useful for Teacher Educators also ..

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