Virtualized scenarios allow the blind to have a satisfying, secure, without apprehension experience; The mobile recognizes the position and orientation of the blind person in the virtual world and provides information at the request of the user through the use of sensitive interfaces, to give him security and confidence.

The interfaces were developed with blind people during the whole creation and testing process, achieving that the product fits the blind needs.

Unlike other projects, it is used indoors and does not require external devices or GPS to make virtual tours. Free trial scenarios and low-cost real places applications will be available

“e-Glance allows the blind to make a virtual visit to the interiors and to become familiar with the space before visiting it”

Social organizations

•  The ONCE Foundation is a social organization with more than 70000 afiliates, whose main objective is to facilitate the access, maintenance and improvement of their affiliates’ jobs by different initiatives .
• The ONCE financially supports projects which have similar objetives to theirs, in 2015 they invested 62,5M€ for supporting, 67% for jobs and training  and 33% for universal accessibility projects.

Turism

•  The Secretary of State for Tourism, with its general strategy, supports the improvement of accessibility in the places.
• In Andalusia there are more than 15000 blind people some places can be virtualized like Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra.
• Blind population in Spain, Europe and Latin America
• There are more than 72000 blind in Spain and more than 800 thousands in Latin America
• The blind employee invests in technology to improve the autonomy. 

“For a blind person the main obstacles are inside a building, the exterior is quite controlled”

Social organizations

• The ONCE Foundation integrates more than 60 leading companies in different sectors of activity, in 2015 its investment was 152 M€ for the care of blind people and the development of social and technological research projects. [http://www.once.es/new/sala-de-prensa/publicaciones-y-documentos/Documprensa/memoria-2015-de-la-once-y-su-fundacion/documentos/memoriaONCE2015.pdf]

Turism

• In Spain the tourist sector is one of the great engines of the economy. It represented 12% of the employement in 2007 and brings around the 11% of the Gross Domestic Product.
• In 2016, there was an increase of  10% in accessibility demands for tourism [http://planaccesibilidadturistica.es/UserFiles/publicaciones/ficheros/Mercado_Potencial_Turismo_Accesible.pdf]

Blind Population in Spain, Europe and Latin America 

• In Europe, the average salary of a blind person is 20 thousands euros a year and they spend 100 euros a mounth in technology  [http://www.disabilityrightsca.org]