DataHour: An Introduction to Extended Reality (XR)

DataHour Recording

Find the resources used in the DataHour HERE.

About the DataHour:

In this DataHour Pooja, will walk you through the world of virtual reality. She will be covering the following points in detail:

1. Introduction to Extended Reality (XR)
2. The conceptual distinctions between AR, VR, MR, and XR.
3. Platforms, devices, apps, tools, and the XR technology landscape
4. How to find XR apps that work with your equipment?
5. How can XR applications be grouped along a spectrum from reality to virtuality?
6. Fundamentals of VR including the technology and history of VR
7. Various uses of VR
8. Psychology of virtual reality
9. Difficulties of the medium

Prerequisites: Curiosity about learning Virtual Reality.

Who is this DataHour for?

• Students & Freshers who want to build a career in the Data-tech domain.
• Working professionals who want to transition to the Data-tech domain.
• Data science professionals who want to accelerate their career growth

Speaker:

Pooja Sarin

Data Science Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi)

Pooja Sarin is a Data Science Researcher (Doctorate Research Scholar) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, working in applied machine learning for "Social Media Challenges." She loves to explore and work with several use cases and applications related to big data from the business and industry perspective, also keeping "sustainability," "innovation," and "AI for social good" in mind. Before joining the Ph.D. program, she worked as Research Associate and explored the domain of Big Data and its applications (Air Pollution & Computer Vision Applications) at IIT Delhi. She also has research experience as an M.Tech. trainee at the Central Scientific Instrumentation Organization (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Chandigarh, in Earthquake Data Analytics. She has completed her B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering domain.

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