CHENNAI: The Centre for Memory Studies of IITMadras on Thursday launched an app that uses the technology of augmented reality and virtual reality simultaneously to capture various moving models of memory.

Named ‘MovingMemory,’ the app can be accessed either through mobile apps or through browser-based platforms, making it uniquely inclusive in quality. “It is a spatial app, developed with the potential to inhabit the metaverse world. It is embedded with additional layers of video, audio, 3D images and interactive elements, which may be used as models for sustainable and herita-georiented pedagogic and research approaches,” said a release from IIT-Madras.

Addressing the inaugural session of the international conference, the Director of IIT-M, V Kamakoti said, “It is crucial that we foreground the urgent need to incorporate collective memory in our understanding and ability to anticipate policies related to ecological issues such as climate change. Human as well as non-human forms of memory such as the Spanish Flu and the 2015 Chennai floods may be examined through interdisciplinary and collaborative formats in order to further memory studies as a discipline.”