MeitY Startup Hub, Facebook unite to support XR technology startups across India

New Delhi, Sept 13 (KNN) To support and accelerate XR technology startups across the country, the MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) has joined hands with Facebook.

The Meity-Facebook collaboration is part of the government’s plans for skilling people in emerging and future technologies.

A program to promote XR technology startups will be announced today in the presence of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Hon’ble Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Joel Kaplan, Vice President, Global Policy, Meta.

India is uniquely placed to play a pivotal role in the metaverse with a large talent pool of creators, developers and a vibrant technology ecosystem. The world looks to it for supply technology, innovation and talent to cater to the greater demand for digital products.

The MeitY Startup Hub, an initiative of MeitY, is a national platform focused on promoting technology innovation, start-ups, and the creation of intellectual properties.

Today, it has around 3000+ tech startups supported, with a vision to ramp it up to more than ten thousand startups in the next three to five years.  (KNN Bureau)