IIT Madras to Develop ‘Extended Reality’ Centre for SAIL-Education News

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is going to develop an ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) Centre for Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).

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 to promote Research and Development (R&D) in the domain of Extended Reality. An MoU towards this collaboration was signed recently between SAIL-MTI and IIT for collaboration on the application of Extended Reality (XR) and other technologies in steel manufacturing. The SAIL-MTI has requested IIT to be a knowledge partner in the design, development, and deployment of short-term and long-term new age trainings and lab for training purposes. Prof. M. Manivannan, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras, and Principle Investigator, XTIC-IIT Madras, said, “XR Technologies has the potential to add value in many aspects of steel making, and probably the entire lifecycle of steel.”

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