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2021

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REALIZING THE METAVERSE: ‘BETAVERSE’ WINS THE SAMSUNG INNOVATION AWARD 2021

Spotlight Innovation3D Spaces and Reconstruction, AR, art, Betaverse, digital payments, Education, entertainment, gaming, Google Speech API, health, Immersive Multimodal Interaction Systems, Kerbal Space Program, live events, marketing, metaverse, Multimedia & Graphics, multiple games, NLP, Photo Realistic Rendering, Samsung Innovation Award Silver Jubilee Edition 2021, single unified free platform, SWARM Robotics, torchbearers, tourism, Unity Game Engine, virtual worlds, Vision, VR, VR-Plugin

A few weeks prior to Facebook’s Meta announcement plunged the world into a new era of social media connectedness and metaverses, some of the most brilliant minds of the country were competing to create metaverse technologies of their own in the 2021 Samsung Innovation Award Silver Jubilee Edition. This year’s competition was won by Ojas Deshmukh, a third-year dual degree B.Tech Biotechnology student at IIT Kharagpur for his Betaverse project. He is also the Managing Head of Computer Graphics Society and a Head at SWARM Robotics at the institute. The project intends to act as a platform that users and…

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2020

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

From the Desk of the Director

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Prof. Virendra Kumar Tewari, faculty member and former Head of the Dept. of Agricultural and Food Engineering has been appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur effective from December 31, 2019, for a period of five years. Brief Bio: Prof. Tewari grew up a campus boy and went on to become an alumnus of the Institute. He completed B.Tech. (Hons.) in Agricultural and Food Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1979, M.Tech. in Farm Machinery and Power Engineering in 1981 and Ph.D. in Engineering in 1985. Prof. Tewari joined the Institute as a faculty member in 1990 where…