IIT-KGP student wins Samsung Innovation Award for 2021
The KGP Chronicle (December 28, 2021)
Realizing the Metaverse: 'Betaverse' wins the Samsung Innovation Award 2021
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 developers can use to engage or participate in the metaverse. It attempts to create such a framework that can be leveraged by developers to
publish their works on a single unified free platform, forming a base to build a metaverse. The platform can host multiple games in the same spot while being flexible enough to allow users to create their own personalized metaverse without any additional effort on the developer side. Before diving deeper into the Betaverse, let us briefly familiarize ourselves with the Samsung Innovation Awards and what exactly is a metaverse. (Read More)