The Award is being fixed successful designation of his enactment connected the Virtual Reality (VR) movie ‘Le Musk’ (2022). (Representative image/ file)
The eXperiential Technology Innovation Centre (XTIC), an IIT Madras Institute of Eminence Centre successful Virtual Reality and related fields, volition honour the legendary euphony composer Dr A.R. Rahman with the ‘XTIC Award 2024 for Innovation’.
The grant is being fixed successful designation of his enactment connected the Virtual Reality (VR) movie ‘Le Musk’ (2022). The grant volition beryllium presented during the two-day ‘XR Summit’, India’s archetypal lawsuit connected XR Academy-Industry meet, connected November 17. It volition beryllium presented by co-inventors of Oculus Prof Steven LaValle and Prof Anna Lavalle who are Visiting Faculty astatine IIT Madras.
This grant recognises exceptional contributions to advancing immersive technologies and storytelling globally, IIT Madras stated.
“Le Musk is simply a bold and innovative experimentation that successfully showcases the imaginable of XR and multi-sensory storytelling. Its reliance connected specialized exertion poses challenges successful accessibility and scalability. This is wherever probe and innovation tin play a large role. The XTIC, Our planetary halfway with planetary leaders, is readying to code these challenges successful the coming years,” said Prof M. Manivannan, Head, XTIC, IIT Madras.
The Experiential Technologies Innovation Center (XTIC) astatine IIT Madras is simply a planetary probe hub dedicated to advancing VR, AR, and haptics technologies. As portion of the ‘Institute of Eminence’ (IoE) Research Initiative, XTIC fosters interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration betwixt academia and manufacture successful an lawsuit XR Summit connected November 16 and 17. By presenting this award, XTIC underscores its committedness to recognizing trailblazers who propulsion the boundaries of experiential technology.
XTIC volition besides recognise XR Startups and honoring them with awards successful antithetic categories arsenic portion of this grant ceremony. In bid to beforehand innovation, XTIC would beryllium organising workshops and hackathons for students moving successful XR tract with information from multinational firms specified arsenic Samsung and Ericsson