Facebook School of Innovation India aims to foster future talent in emerging technologies and bring cutting edge technologies to India for ambitious students. We recognize that the students enrolled in university programmes, across disciplines are very keen to learn emerging technologies provided they have guidance, especially from the Industry.
Towards this end, we launched VR 201 in Sastra University in Jan 2019 and we are currently the third batch of students taking the course. We held a University Showcase Workshop in November 2019, where we showcased the course integration efforts in Sastra. This was an invite only workshop and 16 Institutes participated with an interest in course integration. Amongst the institutes, those who have taken initiatives towards course integration are GITAM University, Kerala Technological University (KTU), KLE (Hubli), GRIET (Telangana) and
Sandip University (Nashik).
As of Jan 2020, VR 201 will be launched in GITAM University, Vizag Campus and further expanded to their other campuses in July 2020.
Head Coach
VR Expert,
SV.CO
Coach, Sastra University
XR Developer,
Odyn Reality
Coach
Technical Officer - XR,
Kerala Startup Mission
Course Faculty Coordinator, Sastra University
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Course Faculty Coordinator, GITAM Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Course Manager
Industry-Academia Liaison Manager, SV.CO
School of Innovation, VR Program Graduate (2018 - 2019)Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Student - VR 201 (July-Nov 2019)Sastra University
Student - VR 201 (July-Nov 2019)Sastra University
Teaching Assistant - Sastra University (VR 201 April -Dec 2019)
School of Innovation, VR Program Graduate (2018 - 2019)
Teaching Assistant - Sastra University (VR 201 July-Dec 2019)
School of Innovation, VR Program Graduate (2018 - 2019)
Teaching Assistant - Sastra University (VR 201 Sep-Nov 2019)
School of Innovation, VR Program Graduate (2018 - 2019)
Sastra (July-Nov 2019 implementation)
CEO, SASTRA-TBI
“The VR course designed with the help of industry experts is very relevant for engineering students. Introduction of this course makes our Sastra students ready to face the digital world and contribute to the growing Industry by the skills they gain while in university. We are happy for this collaboration, and appreciate the support from Industry professionals for the course.”
Co-Founder, Scapic
“I was pleasantly surprised to see the creativity of students in their VR projects. Virtual Reality & 3D is not a very simple subject, yet many students enrolled for it and spent more time than what was expected to learn the nuances and build amazing demos by the end of the semester! Happy to see SV.CO bringing this change in our education, the universities encouraging & adopting this new model of teaching emerging technologies to their students and students showing extreme interest to be part of it, without worrying about just marks.”
Sastra VR 201 (July-Nov 2019)
“It was a really great learning experience. The course content is good. We started from scratch and during the course I gained confidence about applying the concepts. I had so much fun doing the project. The faculty and TAs were very helpful and also supportive. Will definitely refer this to my friends.”
Sastra VR 201 (July-Nov 2019)
“The first thing I liked is that this is the new age course that we can really equip to meet the current industry needs. I really liked the thing that we need to dig things to learn instead of spoon feeding everything.”
This course is aimed to introduce the students to the concepts and development of Virtual Reality primarily based on Unity. It is a self-paced, completely online course, with an average completion duration of 7-10 days.
Prerequisite: None
The students are expected to understand the basics of VR, jargons of VR industry and usage of Unity game engine in VR application development.
This is a beginner course on VR. It focuses on introducing the students to learn about Virtual Reality and skills required to become a Unity VR developer.
Prerequisite: VR 101 (optional)
Through this course, the students are expected to get beginner level skills in the basics of VR development on Oculus platform and Unity development which includes wireframing, level designing and C# programming.
The objective of this course is to advance the students in their knowledge of Virtual Reality by helping them build a VR application on the Oculus platform, thereby making their career VR ready.
Prerequisite: VR 201
Through this course, the students are expected to get intermediate skills in VR development on the Oculus platform and Unity development (Wireframing/Storyboarding, Level Designing, C# Programming) along with a deeper understanding of making VR as a career option.
This course addresses the advanced concepts of VR specifically currently relevant in the industry. Students will build a production grade application on themes and problem statements coined by the industry.
Prerequisite: VR 301
Through this course, the students are expected to get advanced skills in VR development on the Oculus platform and Unity development.
Along with university integration, a 6-month open VR program was conducted between August 2018 to February 2019. A total of 10 teams were selected from across the India out of 1194 applications. This program culminated in a demo-day on February 23, 2019 where the selected 10 teams got an opportunity to showcase their product to the Facebook/industry panel.
Startup Village Collective (SV.CO) is a mission-based organisation to build the collective network for teaching and learning emerging technology courses to students.
The Company is currently piloting with select industry partners (Facebook and Freshworks) to create a connected learning platform for faculty and students in partner Universities to teach and learn emerging technologies like Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality and Web Developer Courses.
Facebook is already involved with SV.CO as the Official Silicon Valley Host Partner along with City of Menlo Park and US Embassy in India and hosted the largest contingent of Indian students founders to visit Silicon Valley in June 2017.
Facebook with its interest to nurture future talent in India, is partnering with SV.CO to take the School of Innovation to the students to understand the potential of cutting edge technologies, build products, demo to industry leaders and perhaps also launch to customers.
