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Samsung India Partners With UNESCO to Launch VR Content and 360-Degree Videos on Indian Heritage Sites
To provide experiential educational content to students across the country, including at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya where Samsung Smart Class have been set up in 500 schools Samsung India has entered into a partnership with UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) to launch 360 video and Virtual Reality (VR) content of two magnificent Indian heritage sites, the Sun Temple in Konark, Odisha and Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The first of the two 360 video and VR content, on the Sun Temple in Konark, was unveiled today at the Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH) 2017 in Visakhapatnam, organized by UNESCO MGIEP.