SCU recently held a ceremony to launch the 5G + XR Joint Innovation Laboratory, ushering in a new era of smart education.

At this first 5G + XR joint innovation laboratory in Sichuan province, SCU and China Telecom, Chengdu will give full play to their advantages in scientific teaching and research and cloud data resources, promote vigorously the theoretical and practical exploration of 5G + XR, and boost the transformation of production, learning and research achievements. The two parties will carry out comprehensive cooperation on new digital virtual technologies such as 5G, virtue reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), 5G + AI in education application, industrial chain development, medical diagnosis and treatment, smart campus, and so forth.

Specifically, the 5G + XR Joint Innovation Laboratory will conduct cooperative research on digital twin, scene simulation teaching, immersive learning, smart classroom and remote classroom, and build an "XR experimental platform" based on holographic, VR, AR and MR technologies. The lab aims to achieve the breakthrough and innovation of XR in the fields of teaching, medicine and smart city.