Sign Language Avatar & Immersive Dome Activation

At Accessibility Expo 2025 in Dubai, We partnered with Team71 and Dubai Health to deliver two powerful interactive installations, a 3m immersive projection dome exploring mental health awareness, and a real-time sign language avatar learning experience on a large vertical LED screen. Together, they created one of the most impactful demonstrations of how immersive and interactive technology can drive genuine inclusion, empathy, and accessibility awareness at a public event.

INDUSTRY
Health & Accessibility
CLIENT
Dubai Health / Team71
LOCATION
Accessibility Expo 2025, Dubai

Accessibility Expo 2025 brought together innovators, policymakers, and advocates to explore how technology can create a more inclusive world. For Dubai Health and Team71, the brief was to deliver two distinct interactive experiences that didn't just talk about accessibility, but actively demonstrated it. The first challenge was to create a genuinely immersive environment that helped visitors emotionally understand the experience of living with mental health challenges. The second was to design an interactive system that made sign language tangible, learnable, and engaging for a general public audience with no prior knowledge.

On the technical side, we engineering two very different systems, a multi-projector immersive dome environment and a real-time sign language avatar application, and integrating them into a seamless, reliable dual-zone experience that could operate continuously throughout the Expo. The sign language avatar system required precise synchronisation between the iPad touchscreen interface and the large-format vertical LED display, with accurate gesture rendering that visitors could genuinely learn from in real time.

“Inclusion isn’t a message you display on a screen. It’s an experience you design. We wanted every visitor to leave having genuinely learned something, whether that was a sign language gesture or a deeper understanding of what mental health really feels like from the inside.”

Team 71

Two Zones. Seven Technologies. One Powerful Statement About What Inclusive Technology Can Do.

3m Immersive Projection Dome: Mental Health Awareness

A 3m immersive open dome was deployed and calibrated to create a fully surrounding visual environment exploring emotional and mental health awareness. Through immersive visuals and spatial storytelling, the dome helped visitors step inside the emotional experience of individuals living with mental health challenges, building empathy and understanding in a way that no panel discussion or printed material could achieve. The multi-projector system delivered seamless, high-quality visuals across the entire dome surface throughout the Expo.

Sign Language Avatar Interactive Learning Experience

A bespoke interactive sign language avatar application was developed and displayed on a large-format vertical LED screen. Visitors selected words and phrases through an iPad touchscreen interface, triggering a real-time animated sign language avatar that demonstrated the selected words using accurate sign language gestures. The system allowed visitors to visually learn and practice sign language communication in an engaging, self-directed format making an unfamiliar language accessible, approachable, and genuinely learnable for a general public audience.

System Engineering, Integration & On-Site Support

Provided full technology system design and engineering across both zones — including hardware supply, media server configuration, custom software development, installation, calibration, and on-site technical support throughout the Expo. The dual-zone system was engineered to operate reliably and continuously across the full duration of the event, with all hardware, software, and display systems fully integrated and tested before opening day.

Services Delivered

Technology System Design and Engineering

Full technology system design and engineering across both interactive zones including system architecture, hardware specification, software integration planning, and technical delivery management.

Sign Language Avatar Interactive Application Development

Development of the bespoke sign language avatar interactive application including the real-time avatar animation engine, iPad touchscreen interface, gesture accuracy system, and LED display output integration.

Immersive Dome Content Creation

Creation of all immersive visual content for the 3m dome environment including the mental health awareness storytelling sequences, spatial visual design, and atmospheric content transitions.

Software Development for Interactive Learning Interface

Custom software development for the interactive sign language learning interface including the word and phrase selection system, real-time avatar trigger logic, and user experience flow design.

Projection, LED Displays, Interactive Devices

Full hardware supply including the multi-projector dome system, large-format vertical LED display, iPad touchscreen devices, and all supporting hardware components across both zones.

Media Server Configuration and Playback System Setup

Media server configuration and playback system setup, managing content delivery and synchronisation across the immersive dome and sign language avatar display systems.

Installation, Calibration, and System Commissioning

Full on-site installation, calibration, and system commissioning ensuring all projection, display, software, and hardware systems were fully integrated, tested, and performing to specification before the Expo opened.

On-Site Technical Support During the Exhibition

Dedicated on-site technical support throughout the full duration of Accessibility Expo 2025, ensuring reliable, continuous operation of both interactive zones across the entire event.

Seven Technologies That Turned Accessibility Into an Experience You Could Step Inside and Learn From

3m Immersive Open Dome Projection System

A 3m open immersive dome creating a fully surrounding projection environment delivering spatial storytelling content that helped visitors emotionally experience mental health awareness from the inside.

Multi-Projector Immersive Dome Environment

A calibrated multi-projector system delivering seamless, high-quality visuals across the entire dome surface ensuring a fully immersive, distortion-free visual environment throughout the Expo.

Interactive Sign Language Avatar System

A bespoke real-time sign language avatar application triggered by iPad touchscreen input and displayed on a large-format vertical LED screen delivering accurate sign language gesture demonstrations for visitor learning.

Large-Format Vertical LED Display

A large-format vertical LED screen displaying the real-time sign language avatar providing a clear, high-resolution visual canvas for sign language gesture demonstration and visitor learning.

iPad Touchscreen Interface & Custom Software

An iPad touchscreen interface paired with a custom interactive software platform allowing visitors to select words and phrases that triggered the sign language avatar in real time, creating an intuitive and engaging self-directed learning experience.

Media Server Playback System

A media server playback system managing content delivery across both the immersive dome and the sign language avatar display ensuring reliable, synchronised operation of all visual and interactive content throughout the Expo.

Custom Interactive Software Platform

A bespoke custom software platform developed to power the sign language avatar interaction, managing the real-time connection between the iPad interface, the avatar animation engine, and the LED display output.

The Accessibility Expo 2025 installation demonstrated that immersive and interactive technology can be one of the most powerful tools available for driving genuine inclusion and empathy at public events. The 3m immersive dome gave visitors a direct, emotionally resonant experience of mental health awareness, moving beyond information to genuine understanding. The sign language avatar learning experience made an unfamiliar language approachable and engaging for a general public audience, with visitors actively learning and practising sign language gestures in real time.

Together, the two installations created a powerful dual-zone experience that reinforced Dubai Health's commitment to accessibility and inclusion and demonstrated Power Interactive's capability to engineer and deliver complex, multi-system interactive experiences that serve a genuine social purpose. The project stands as one of Power Interactive's most meaningful demonstrations of technology in the service of human connection.

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