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Samsung, South Korean Tech-giant, will be inaugurating its AR-VR (Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality) Innovation Lab at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Jodhpur to upskill students on new technologies and to help them master industry-related skills to make them job-ready.

The programme will be offered to B.Tech, M.Tech, and Ph.D students at the lab and would be conducted by the Samsung Engineers along with the IIT-Jodhpur's faculty. This lab would also be used by research students to regulate their experiments. One batch will be including 30-35 students and only one batch would be trained in a year.

The programme will continue for the duration of 14 weeks and would be conducted through classroom lectures, lab room sessions, assignments, mini-projects, and self-study. The curriculum will include AR-VR, with special focus on taste, touch, smell, robotic interfaces, brain-machine interfaces, and telepresence.

Peter Rhee, Corporate VC of Samsung India, "We are confident that the Samsung Innovation Lab will help students leverage the growing digital technologies market and develop their talent".