IIT Madras launches India’s first consortium for virtual reality

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on Monday announced the launch of the country’s first consortium for virtual reality called ‘Consortium for VR/AR/MR Engineering Mission in India’ (CAVE).

The body consists of a group of academia, industries, startups, and government bodies and is being coordinated by IIT Madras with the objective to enable members to create new advanced technologies and applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality (XR) and haptics together.

The consortium aims to enable research collaboration to be undertaken with industrial sponsors and participants from industry, academia, and government.