As VR market grows in India, no safety standards in place for headsets
The HinduVirtual reality headsets have no safety requirements in India, even as companies like Apple and Meta gear up to sell more and more such headsets in India. VR headsets are used predominantly in gaming, but firms like Meta and Apple see promise in creating a ‘metaverse,’ an alternate space online where people can interact with avatars; and in general computing. In a meeting among customs officials in August 2022, Principal Commissioner of Customs S.A. Usmani brought up this issue, highlighting the discrepancy — and lack of clarity — in safety requirements for VR headsets. The Indian Standard 616:2010 provides safety norms for gaming consoles, but VR headsets were being imported under several product classifications, Mr. Usmani said, according to minutes of the meeting published by Mumbai Customs. Beyond electrical safety, VR headsets pose other challenges — they are designed to block visibility to the outside world, and use motion tracking to immerse users in a virtual environment.
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