IIT Madras to start Diploma Programme in Virtual Reality with Japanese Research Firm Monolith

The Advanced diploma will be offered in both Online and Offline mode and is open for anyone with an engineering background including students who are currently enrolled in engineering degrees.

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Monolith Research And Training Labs are going to launch an advanced diploma program in Virtual Reality to be offered in both online and offline mode.

The course would be open for anyone with an engineering background including students currently enrolled in engineering degrees anywhere in India.

The Applications will be available from November 2021 and the first batch will commence from January 2022. The course will have an annual intake of 50 students.

Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful technology in which the human senses are artificially stimulated. Using computer programs, VR technology allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment to experience, feel and touch the images of past, present, and the future.

An MoU towards this collaboration was signed recently between IIT Madras and Monolith Research And Training Labs an associate company of Monolith.Asia. The course is being coordinated by IIT Madras by the Centre of Excellence on Virtual Reality and Haptics, set up under the ‘Institute of Eminence’ initiative of the Government of India.

Highlighting the unique aspects of the program, Prof. M. Manivannan, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras, said, “Virtual Reality is inherently a practical and an interdisciplinary course. Offering such an experiential and interdisciplinary course online is quite challenging. Both IIT Madras and Monolith have taken this as a challenge to offer this course for the first time in India.”

Graduates of this course will have potential job opportunities in sectors such as IT Companies, animation industries, architecture, and engineering industries to healthcare and media production. This advanced diploma program shall be available for students/freshers with minimum bachelor’s degrees or for working professionals who are aspiring to upskill in immersive technologies.

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