Facebook to help young India create Virtual Reality products
Facebook partnered with Startup Village Collective (SV.CO), a Bangalore-based digital incubator, on Wednesday to help Indian students develop their ideas on virtual reality (VR) into globally marketable products and services. Ten student teams from across 3,300 Indian engineering colleges will be selected for SV.CO's new VR program, which begins this month and ends in January 2019. Read on to know more.
10 teams will get guidance to build VR product idea
The School of Innovation Program will provide selected teams expert guidance to build their next-generation VR product idea through the #StartinCollege campaign. The teams will be enrolled into a six-month course on SV.CO's online learning platform. Students will be mentored online and in-person throughout the process, right from developing the idea, to building a low high-fidelity prototype and making it available to customers.
A skill investment for the future
Successful teams will get to represent their product before a leadership panel on demo day, which will be held at Facebook India office in January 2019. With India being one of the largest community of developers and among the fastest growing regions for startups, SV.CO's program is eyeing skill investment for the future.
Facebook and Startup Village have been long associated
The Facebook and Startup Village partnership is hardly new. The social media giant is already SV.CO's official Silicon Valley host partner in India. As part of the incubator's learning program, FB has also been mentoring Indian student founders on their exploratory American visits, helping them design user interfaces for their products, and connect with other developers and start-ups across the world.
