Monday, 12 October 2026
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The Indian market for AV, XR, music and live entertainment.
On September 30, at FICCI FRAMES 2026 in Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) - India's national centre of excellence for animation, VFX, gaming, comics and XR - signed five memorandums of understanding at the Grand…
Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 smart glasses went on sale in India on 1 October 2026, priced from ₹44,300. Alongside the launch, Meta named Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh as the first-ever India brand ambassador for both Ray-Ban and Ray-Ban…
India's live events market has crossed ₹13,000 crore (about $1.41 billion), and the money moving through it is changing shape.
India's largest eyewear retailer is now building AI hardware in-house.
India has overtaken China as Asia Pacific's fastest-growing Pro AV market, according to AVIXA's Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis report.
India just gave R&D-intensive startups a category of their own.
India's wedding industry and its film industry have never shared a stage before. That changes next month.
India is about to run its first immersive festival at festival scale, not gallery scale.
India's largest professional audio and lighting marketplace opens in New Delhi this week.
Coldplay's Ahmedabad stop in January 2025 added an estimated ₹641 crore to the city's economy in a single weekend — ₹392 crore in direct spend across hotels, transport, restaurants and retail, and ₹72 crore in GST revenue for the…
Spotify's international streams of Indian artists grew more than 2,000% between 2019 and 2023, and Indian artists picked up 11.2 billion first-time listens globally in 2024 alone.
India's AVGC-XR sector is getting real infrastructure, not just headlines. The Indian Institute of Creative Technology — the National Centre of Excellence for Animation, VFX, Gaming, Comics and XR — began operations in Mumbai in July 2025…
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