Tata Elxsi and Lenovo announced a partnership on Tuesday to develop smart XR solutions for enterprise and engineering applications, including Metaverse as a service.

Customers using Lenovo's smart XR devices in both large and small office and industrial environments will benefit from end-to-end solutions and services from Tata Elxsi and Lenovo. Tata Elxsi and Lenovo will enable enterprises to deliver immersive digital transformation solutions.

Tata Elxsi’s Design2Reality practice will bring a team of solution architects who consult, specialists, and technologists who deliver solutions to customers. This practice also brings expertise in design and content development, overall application development, Metaverse as a service, systems integration, managed services support, and infrastructure support to help deliver use cases for industries across manufacturing, automotive, healthcare and transportation.

“AR / VR technologies foster outcomes around remote collaborations to improve productivity, enhance customer experiences and help get products faster to the market. Tata Elxsi and Lenovo are together working in helping forward-thinking customers scale into the next big wave of immersive experience – The Metaverse and accelerate the adoption of XR," said Aditya S Chikodi – Business Head and General Manager of Design & Innovation at Tata Elxsi.

Lenovo will bring its hardware and software expertise with its smart XR platform ThinkReality which provides a scalable and streamlined path from proof of concept to productivity for enterprise and engineering AR/VR applications.

Vishal Shah, General Manager of Commercial AR/VR at Lenovo, said, “Speed-to-solution is going to give firms first-mover advantages in the emerging enterprise Metaverse. The ThinkReality portfolio of solutions offers better pathways to deployment and scalability for the enterprise by providing the right fit of hardware, software and services from Lenovo and Tata Elxsi”.

These span across engineering design and modeling, maintenance and repair, remote collaboration, worker safety and training etc., and help to save cost, improve efficiency and enhance next-level productivity.