On June 21st, together with its partner NEEEU GmbH, a Berlin-based software house specializing in video game development, we will be attending SightCity in Frankfurt, the world’s largest trade fair for aids and solutions for the blind and visually impaired. It will be a meaningful moment of international exchange, innovation, inclusion, and progress.
On this occasion, we will present the project GLEAM – Game to Learn and Enable Accessibility through Modern Mythology (funded under the Horizon program for the development of the XR4ED platform) to the public and invite both sighted and non-sighted individuals to help us test the first game mechanics identified for the alpha version of the game.
The project aims to develop the first core of an inclusive (video)game connected to museums and education, bringing together visually impaired and sighted people around a shared challenge. In doing so, it seeks to bridge these two worlds by integrating technologies such as spatial audio, augmented audio, and tactile stimuli.
GLEAM reveals and highlights the hidden connections within Modern Mythology—a powerful language that blends narratives of heroes and superheroes with historical, cultural, and artistic heritage, music and fashion, and childhood memories. The game tells a story deeply rooted in the past yet undeniably tied to today’s idols and myths.
Designed to adapt to various spatial environments, the game will be available in 2026 for smartphones and tablets, engaging users in museums, schools, universities, or even from home.
The test in Frankfurt is the result of co-design workshops conducted with sighted and non-sighted testers in Rovereto and Turin, in collaboration with MART, Oriente Occidente, Abilnova, the National Cinema Museum, Tactile Vision, and Tiny Bull Studios.
