Day: 8 February 2024

Rohde & Schwarz, Toward the metaverse: Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom join forces to realize 5G-enabled AR-animated avatar calls

Vijay Raman

Toward the metaverse: Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom join forces to realize 5G-enabled AR-animated avatar calls  The metaverse and extended reality (XR) applications are considered critical to unlocking the full consumer potential of the 5G technology. Rigorous testing is crucial to ensure the performance and market acceptance of these immersive experiences. Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom have collaborated to address this need, developing essential tools to test XR use cases thoroughly prior to market launch. At Mobile World Congress 2024, visitors can experience a first demonstration of how to enable…

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Stable Repo Rates to Keep Residential Momentum Going

Vijay Raman

   Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Group With the fundamentals of the Indian economy remaining strong despite all global headwinds and inflation well under control, the RBI once again decided to keep the repo rates unchanged at 6.5%, thus extending the festive bonanza that it gave to the homebuyers in its last two policy announcements. Thus, homebuyers retain their advantage of relatively affordable home loan interest rates.   If we consider the present trends, the housing market has been unstoppable, and unchanged home loan rates will help maintain the overall…

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Mobile health service ‘Kilkari’ launched in Maharashtra and Gujarat

Vijay Raman

Mobile health initiative Kilkari was launched in Gujarat and Maharashtra on Wednesday, it was launched virtually by Union Minister of State for Health Baghel and Bharti Praveen Pawar in both the states. The Kilkari program is a centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based mobile health service that delivers 72 weekly and time-appropriate audio messages about pregnancy, delivery and child care directly to families' mobile phones from the second trimester of pregnancy till the child turns one. Sends on. Mobile Academy, a free audio training course designed to expand and refresh…

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India’s first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel test facility developed by IIT Kanpur

Vijay Raman

n important step has been taken in the country's journey towards self-reliant India with the successful installation and testing of India's first Hypervelocity Expansion Tunnel Test Facility by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). This is a major achievement that makes India among the handful of countries with this advanced hypersonic testing capability. The development of this facility was supported by the Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology Infrastructure (FIST) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) with an amount of Rs 4.5 crore in the year…

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