IIT-M to develop XR centre for SAIL

Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) said on Wednesday it is developing an ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) centre for Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), the largest steel-making public sector undertaking.
The centre, coming up at Management Training Institute (MTI), a unit of SAIL located at Ranchi, would showcase the latest Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality (AR / VR / MR) and Haptic Technologies.SAIL will utilise the advanced technologies created at the newly-established eXperiential Technology Innovation Centre (XTIC) at IIT Madras to promote R&D in the domain of Extended Reality.
XTIC is India’s first Research and Product Innovation centre for XR and haptics Technology, a transdisciplinary centre encompassing several fields of engineering, medicine, psychology and arts. The XTIC will develop both XR technologies for SAIL-MTI and also impart training to concerned SAIL employees on XR technology .