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- Indian astronauts on India’s first human space flight mission Gaganyaan will undergo training with modules developed by IIT-Madras using extended reality (XR), which includes immersive technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality.
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) would utilize the advanced technologies created at the newly-established eXperiential Technology Innovation Centre (XTIC) at IIT Madras to promote Research and Development (R&D) in the domain of Extended Reality.
- XR technologies has the potential to add value in many aspects of human space flight programmes, particularly in shortening the design cycle and simulating the space environment.
- XTIC will develop XR technologies and train Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) engineers on the technology and help in establishing an extended reality/ virtual reality laboratory at HSFC.
- IIT-M researchers said some of the key outcomes from the collaboration include modelling and simulation of human physiology as well as space systems, training Isro scientists in developing their own XR systems, visualisation and optimisation of design architecture and outreach activities.
- IIT-M has a long history of contributing to Isro’s programmes.
- XTIC, which is one of the first research and product innovation centres for XR and haptics technology, established Cave, a consortium of startups and industries in the field of XR and haptics in India.
- IIT-M researchers said that while most of the research globally focusses on either software or hardware components of XR, XTIC focuses on the fundamentals of XRhuman factors, particularly perception and illusion, pioneering a new field called perceptual engineering, and perceptual algebra.
Haptics technology:
- A technology that stimulates the senses of touch and motion, especially to reproduce in remote operation or computer simulation the sensations that would be felt by a user interacting directly with physical object
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
