[15-01-2010] The first Spanish Observatory for the research and promotion of technologies associated with 3D is founded in Ibiza

On Monday, Pilar Costa, Minister of Innovation, the Interior and Justice, signed for the inclusion of the iBit Foundation into the EXPLOR3D Observatory, the first Spanish Observatory devoted to the research, development, promotion and coordination of the industry and culture associated with the use of 3D technologies.

Explor3D is a not-for-profit organisation with an open character comprising public institutions such as the Government of the Balearic Islands and the Ibiza Insular Ministry, along with pioneering companies that work in the area of 3D and two Spanish universities: the University of Vigo and the Complutense in Madrid, which are research leaders in this field.

Explor3D has been set up in Ibiza, where it will also have its physical head office. The island is today a point of reference in the use of new technologies in virtual worlds. The creation of Explor3D is fully compliant with the strategic lines defined by the European Union and at a national level where the European Union's technological strategy, headed by the Future Internet Assembly, places emphasis on virtual world technologies that will impact on educational, social, communications, research and business fields.

Virtual Reality and 3D form part of the iBit Foundation's lines of work in projects in the areas of Tele-medicine, and Tele-rehabilitation. Meanwhile, the iBit Foundation has sponsored the two Virtual Worlds-Metaverse Conferences owing to the excellent possibilities that metaverses present in the field of education, healthcare, training, work or care assistance.

Currently the iBit Foundation has underway various projects relating to virtual worlds and metaverses. Within the healthcare environment, the project TeleRHB consists of the development of a virtual rehabilitation platform that offers users the possibility of performing their rehabilitation exercises at home. Likewise, the TELEFI project seeks to establish a virtual health platform that will enable the monitoring and support of remote physiotherapy, permitting contact between care workers and the elderly and disabled patients through ICT.

The projects SINA and SINA II, aimed at users with motor disabilities, represent an educational system of natural and advanced interaction that are based on information and knowledge technologies and make the computer accessible to persons with disabilities. This accessibility is achieved through vision techniques through a computer using a common webcam, permitting a low-cost system.

In the educational field, the Foundation also works on the creation of educational digital objects dedicated to the learning of Catalan by late-entry students.

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