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Aberdeen airport looking for volunteers to test virtual reality app

stills of the app An AIRPORT is seeking volunteers to try out a new virtual reality app aimed at making the process easier for travellers with disabilities. Aberdeen International Airport has joined forces with hidden disability charity Friendly Access, the School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art and 3D visualisation specialists Crag3D, to devise the technology called iSenseVR. It is hoped that the app will help those who experience sensory difficulties in busy environments such as airports, shopping centres and other highly populated areas. Now in its final stages of development, the team are seeking 70 volunteers with hidden disabilities to register their interest in assisting with the research.

It is hoped the app, which will be used with a virtual reality headset, will help those who experience sensory difficulties in busy environments such as airports, shopping centres and other highly populated areas.

With the app and headset, the user will be able to decrease noise levels and numbers of people around them at stages of the airport travel process, such as check-in, boarding, at a cafe and on the aircraft itself.

Now in its final stages of development, the team is looking for 70 volunteers with hidden disabilities to register their interest in assisting with the research.

See the full story here: https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/aberdeen-airport-looking-for-volunteers-to-test-virtual-reality-app/

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