The Augmented Reality group namely AR Hub (as team Brahmos) of KIIT won the WAVR Hackathon on AR/VR organised by VARCoE (Virtual and Augmented Reality Centre of Excellence) at IIT Bhubaneswar. ARHub is a group of AR/VR enthusiasts at KIIT Deemed to be University under the guidance of Prof. Sambit Prasad Kar, Design Thinking Lab, School of Electronics Engineering.
One of the teams of AR Hub, Team Brahmos consisting of Sanchit Sharma, Praddyum Verma, Anirban Das and Aishika Das presented the project SanskritiVR which had AR-VR Gallantry Museum of Indian Army, the project showcased the potential of AR/VR in tourism especially for museums and galleries, how it can promote global tourism and encourage educational tourism for students.
This was the second edition of WAVR which was held online due to COVID-19 situation in the country. It was a two-day programme which had expert talks on AR/VR from the industry, AR/VR Hackathon and Startup Colloquia.
Team Brahmos of the AR Hub bagged the 2nd position along with a cash prize of Rs. 30,000.
This is the second consecutive year that AR Hub team has won the competition, last year it bagged 2nd and 3rd position as well.
