Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008. IITH has been consistently ranked in the&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/reports/" rel="noopener noreferrer">top 10 institutes</a>&nbsp;in India for Engineering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nirfindia.org/2021/EngineeringRanking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to NIRF</a>&nbsp;making it one of the most coveted schools for science and technology in the country.

IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/under-graduate/">undergraduate programs</a>&nbsp;in all the classical engineering disciplines, applied sciences, design, as well as several modern interdisciplinary areas. Students are given a flexibility to explore a broad set of areas, and potentially pursue a minor or double major in a discipline that is not their own. Students who wish to seek a deeper understanding of their own discipline are strongly encouraged to get involved in cutting-edge research with the help of a faculty to mentor them, and earn an Honors in their own field.

The very foundation of IIT Hyderabad is based on&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/">research and innovation</a>. The vibrant research culture is evident from the number of patents and publications that IITH produces consistently every year. IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/programmes-offered/">graduate programs</a>&nbsp;at both a masters, and a doctoral level, in several diverse areas. There are separate programs for technology, design, science, and liberal arts. The&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/post-graduate/">MTech program</a>&nbsp;is offered in various modes and durations to cater to the ever-growing need of postgraduate level professionals in the country.

IITH encourages and supports&nbsp;<a href="https://iic-iith.netlify.app/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">innovation and entrepreneurship</a>&nbsp;at every stage. The minor program in entrepreneurship is open to all students of IITH, and many of the courses are offered by industrialists who are entrepreneurs themselves. There are various&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/centres-incubators/">innovation centers and incubators</a>&nbsp;that promote entrepreneurship and help mentor young innovators. IITH has been very successful in building tie-ups with leading academic institutions around the globe.

IITH enjoys a very special relationship with Japanese universities and industries that goes beyond academic and research collaborations. In fact, some of the iconic buildings in IITH campus will carry the signature of Japanese architecture.

IITH creates a unique holistic ecosystem for education that offers interactive learning, a very flexible academic structure, cutting-edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. This is an environment which enables students and faculty to translate their dreams into realities.

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A Rotating Cylindrical Display is recommended as an ergonomic approach for the communication of scripts in Parallel Interactive Narratives in Virtual Reality (PIN VR). VR studies propose grammars to orient a navigator’s gaze towards intended areas; however, it is argued that it is this limitation of the navigator’s ability to choose their own viewing direction, which restricts the full potential of the medium. PIN VR experiences address this limitation by allowing the navigator to teleport from one narrative location to another; while the remaining narrative locations run in parallel sequences, irrespective of the navigator’s presence. A study on scriptwriting for VR reveals that there is no standard approach for VR script design. This leads to the possibility to explore scriptwriting for PIN VR experiences. Through a Screen Production Enquiry, a PIN VR script has been attempted in a Traditional and Spherical Format. It is observed that these formats limit the representation of parallel narrative timelines. An ergonomic solution is found in a combination of a Tabular Format and a Rotating Cylindrical PIN VR Display. The display includes parallel scripts mounted around the surface of a cylinder. The display adopts relevant ergonomic and functional details from a rotating literature rack and a digital kiosk display. The Rotating Cylindrical PIN VR Display has been tested with VR production crew members for its ergonomic and visual communication effectiveness. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.