Digital Domain India to Host VR Hackathon, inviting developers to show their coding skills and vie for multiple skills sets openings at their Hyderabad Studio. The entry is free and open to everyone from the developer community.
Hyderabad: Digital Domain India, located in Hyderabad, is expanding to include a virtual reality (VR) team, and kicked off the announcement with a VR Hackathon. The VR Hackathon will be held on March 10 and 11, and is designed to seek out the best Backend, Unity and developer talent in Hyderabad. The event will test the skills and open the door to an exciting career opportunity.
The primary idea behind the Digital Domain India (DDI) VR Hackathon is to spread awareness about the enormous career opportunities and to attract talent from other industries mainly the developer community, including Full Stack Developers (Back-end Developers) and Unity Developers.
The registration to participate is absolutely free of cost. Participants at the VR Hackathon will learn more about the creative work done by Digital Domain India, and winners will take away INR 50,000 cash prize plus attractive goodies, and may also land in a lucrative VR position at Digital Domain Hyderabad facility.
To enter the competition, developers will have to first go through an eligibility test. Qualifying candidates will get to compete the final coding challenge. Depending on the coding challenge, the duration of the VR Hackathon will be 24 – 48 hours.
To know the details of the Hackathon, ‘How to apply’ and to register logon to Digital Domain Hackathon 2018 ( https://goo.gl/VnDv6U ) every shortlisted candidates will be tested for their skills on full stack (back-end) development (JD available), Unity Development (JD available), Core Software and Pipeline.
Amit Chopra, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Digital Domain, “With a legacy of creating visually stunning effects, Digital Domain consistently pushes boundaries in multiple creative areas from film to commercials to XR. One way we lead the industry is by hiring the very best talent. As the work continues to evolve in demand and scope, our talent needs to be just as agile. This Hackathon will help us to identify the next great innovators to join our global team”.
Stating the idea behind the Hackathon, Sudhir Reddy, Vice President and Head of Studio for Digital Domain India said: “We are in an exciting phase of growth. There is a continued hunger to tap fresh talent for sought-after skills. We are currently focusing on strengthening our VR/AR and tech development workforce in Hyderabad as an extension to our North American teams and we believe the Hackathon will be our window to the large developer community in the state and elsewhere looking for challenging opportunities.”
The Digital Domain VR Platform is a broadcast-grade solution for distributing live and pre-rendered 360 experiences to audiences worldwide across movie devices, HMDs and desktops. Built for scale, this cloud-based platform combines tools for managing and enriching content with a set of white-labelled apps and SDKs to give the widest reach. The platform allows for live streaming video or delivering video clips, tailoring VR destinations to brands without any coding, embedding 360 experiences directly into existing movie and web apps, monetizing with ads. All to leverage VR to the best of its potential.
Heads of the respective functions from Digital Domain will travel from Los Angeles to Hyderabad, to judge, evaluate and declare the winners. Mentors from DDI will also be available during the Hackathon with preset evaluation parameters to guide and support participants.
Digital Domain foresees an escalating demand for premium film and digital experiences in India. This VR Hackathon is a step in the right direction to fulfil its ambition to tap into and expand its existing team of highly skilled local talent and reaffirm Digital Domain’s growing prowess in the visual effects and the interactive content space. Participants can expect an exciting collaborative environment to meet their potential employers.
With more than 40 patents to their credit, Digital Domain continues to innovate and push the boundaries of VR technology. DD Hyderabad Studio is Digital Domain’s 5th global studio and first facility in India that began production in Hyderabad on November 2017. The 42,000 sq ft facility built initially with an $5 million investment in Hyderabad’s IT special economic zone was established with a strong focus on building local and global content especially feature and short films. It is tightly integrated with Digital Domain creative HQ in LA.
