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Accentac uses virtual reality to facilitate access to public buildings for the elderly and people with disabilities

Pixtorm has developed a virtual reality application called Accentac that facilitates access for people with disabilities to access public and emblematic buildings.

Accentac

The National Center for Accessibility Technologies Foundation (Centac) Accentac has presented, an augmented reality mobile application that the firm has developed Pixtorm with which it is possible to know the type of accessibility and the services offered by public and emblematic buildings. Juan Luis Quincoces, director of the developing entity describes it as “a bridge between physical accessibility and digital accessibility”.

With Accentac it is possible to know where the ramps are located, the elevators, adapted bathrooms and accesses, emergency exits or information points.

Allows you to navigate the interior of buildings through 2D and 3D plans, access information about the spaces through GPS and view the facades of the buildings to, by clicking on them, know its history or the data it contains.

In the first launch phase, Centac has collaborated with the Madrid City Council to include fourteen public spaces in Madrid in this tool, Among them are buildings as emblematic as the Cibeles Palace., the Prado Museum, the National Library, the María Guerrero Theater, the Count Duke, Caixa Forum o el Matadero Madrid.

The CNSE Foundation has collaborated in this project with the translation of all the texts into Spanish sign language. This tool also includes VoiceOver technology to offer voiceovers for the elderly and people with visual disabilities..

The objective set by these entities is that by the end of the year the application includes fifty public spaces and, for it, Centac is in talks with other municipalities, like those of Barcelona, Granada and Elche, in order to integrate emblematic buildings and spaces of these cities into Accentac.

This tool is free and can be downloaded from the App Store. Apple for iOS devices and also for Android.

By, 8 Jul, 2013, Section: Augmented Reality, Health

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