Information For Press and Other Media.

From this section we want to facilitate the work of the journalists who is interested in divulging our work. Here is a multimedia collection, text and links that will facilitate the task of elaborating press notes or preparing news articles on the Virtual Acoustic Space project.

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Backgroud.

Virtual Acoustic Space is a project that persecutes a clear objective: to offer to the blind people the opportunity to develop in its surroundings through the recreation of the space by means of sound 3D.

The project has 8 years of history and is carried out by the Universidad de La LAguna and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, in Tenerife (Canary islands, Spain).

Presently we are 22 people in our team. More information on our human team (present and past) here.

Since its beginnings, the project has received the support of diverse institutions. In some cases this support has been financier. Subventions of the Government of the Canary Islands, IMSERSO, Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and European Comunity have been received. In order to know more details (years, quantities, etc), please visit our section Institutions.

You can find a summary of the project here. For the correct understanding of texts contained in this web site it can be interesting to visit our section Frequently Asked Questions.

Multimedia Material.

In the Multimedia section you will find a series of links that will take you to a collection of photographic, videographic and sonorous material that you will be able to use to prepare your journalistic work.

All images are free for publication. Please credit the Virtual Acoustic Space Project unless personal credit information is stated for a particular image.

If You need additional information on our photographies or videos please write to eav@ll.iac.es.

Contact webmaster if you have problems reading or displaying the image or movie files.

Portable Prototipe Last generation facilities.

A multidisciplinary team with a common objective.

Participation in important congresses.

Participation at 18th Annual International Conference "Technology and Personds with Disabilities", Los Angeles, USA, march 2003

More Information.

In our web we published the last news on our project (experiments that are being carried out, improvements in the portable prototype, attendance to congresses, etc) through the News section. In addition, if you ask for it writing a mail to eav@ll.iac.es, we will periodically send a bulletin to you with information so that you can be up-to-date on our work.

If you have further questions please contact us at eav@ll.iac.es.