Forbes India - 2019

Certified Industry 4.0 professional and immersive technologist, Dr. CSS Bharathy has two decades of experience in digital imaging, process industry consultancy, training, workshops, research and product development in Singapore from 1998 to 2006 and in India from 2007 onwards. In 2012, he founded Fusion VR, which helps businesses in their digital transformation journeys by designing and integrating custom made Immersive-Solutions using various XR technologies along with the flavors of IoT & AI. It enhances production efficiencies and reduces safety incidents, as well as offer solutions across verticals with the accurate KPI assessments thereby creating “immersive Digital Twin” experiences for the Industry 4.0 landscape.

Fusion VR is an offspring of Global Institute for Stereovision and Research, which has over a decade of experience in the fields of stereoscopic imaging, 3D animation, holography, Mocap-systems and simulation games. Says Dr. CSS Bharathy, “Our Products & Solutions cover the entire spectrum of Industrial-training simulated in real and-virtual combined environments through the 3 Major variants of XR technologies such VR, AR & MR. The Dynamic team at Fusion VR has a perfect blend of Engineers & Scientists with rich cross-cultural Industry experiences along with an Energetic-young-team of Designers, Creative-artists & Developers who all share a passion towards Immersive-Technologies for Smart Factories. Our SMEs are capable to understand the Pain-Points of our customers and design customized Industry 4.0 Immersive-Solutions and Strategies from Engineering-Design and R & D to Production, QC, Maintenance & Service, Sales & Marketing till Customer-Service (End-to-End Complete Product Life-Cycle Solutions). Fusion VR majorly caters to Process-Plants such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Cement Factories, Pharmaceuticals and manufacturing-industries such as Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics and Marine.”

An Adobe certified video specialist, Dr. CSS Bharathy became the first certified instructor of South East Asia in 2004. In 2007, he started Aim Multimedia, India’s first and only training institute authorised by Adobe, Autodesk, Corel and Wacom. A doctorate in Stereoscopic 3D, he has contributed research articles for science magazines and was recognised as a “Distinguished Scientist” at the International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 2012. Further, he is involved in continuous R&D in the areas of indigenous and cost-effective stereo 3D imaging, VR and AR, interactive holography, Mo-cap systems and industrial simulations.

Years of Experience: 20 years

Achievements

• A forerunner in the industrial virtual simulation space since 2012 and commercially launched VR services for the first time in India during early 2014
• Created the mobile games that are listed as top ten on Google Play store with nearly over 30 million downloads, and award- winning VR products for private and government agencies in India and across the world
• Listed in “20 Most Promising Virtual Reality Solution Providers – 2018” by Silicon India
• ImmeX Zone, one of its major initiatives, was the first ever commercially launched real immersive VR product in India and Singapore during 2014. An indigenous VR HMD and a dynamic haptics technology integrated simulation platform was developed for this