VisionRevive
- "Clearer sight, brighter future—personalized and engaging VR treatment for amblyopia."
Why was it developed?
In today's time, there are 3 methods to treat amblyopia. ​
1) Corrective Glasses
Corrective glasses aid vision but don’t fully activate the weaker eye, leaving neural pathways underdeveloped and limiting recovery, especially in severe amblyopia cases.
2) Eye-Patch
Eye patches strengthen the weaker eye but lack engagement, often causing discomfort and poor compliance, limiting effectiveness in fully treating amblyopia.
3) Atropine Drops
Atropine eye drops blur the stronger eye to activate the weaker one but often cause discomfort and are less engaging, leading to inconsistent results.
However,
these treatments are obsolete, often lack engaging methods for patients, and lead to inconsistent outcomes. This propelled us to create an engaging, personalized alternative.
Presenting 'VisionRevive'-
Our VR headset offers an easy-to-wear, targeted solution for amblyopia, featuring immersive vision therapy games ideal for short attention spans. With customizable brightness and contrast tailored to prescriptions, it blurs the stronger eye to stimulate the weaker eye's development over time fixing amblyopia from its roots.
How it works:
Step 1: Initial Consultation
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Schedule a session with an ophthalmologist to assess the severity of amblyopia and develop a personalized therapy plan.
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The doctor recommends session frequency, therapy duration, and game difficulty levels tailored to the user’s needs.
Step 2: Setup and Calibration
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Fit the VR headset for optimal comfort, ensuring the correct interpupillary distance and alignment.
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Calibrate settings like contrast, brightness, and blurring levels for the dominant eye to encourage the weaker eye's engagement.
Step 2: Setup and Calibration
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Fit the VR headset for optimal comfort, ensuring the correct interpupillary distance and alignment.
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Calibrate settings like contrast, brightness, and blurring levels for the dominant eye to encourage the weaker eye's engagement.
Step 3: Begin Dichoptic Therapy
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Launch the VR therapy, where each eye receives distinct visual inputs.
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The dominant eye sees blurred or dimmed images, while the weaker eye receives clearer stimuli, promoting synchronized binocular vision.
Step 4: Play Interactive Therapy Games
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Engage with custom-designed games that are fun, interactive, and visually rehabilitative.
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Games dynamically adjust in difficulty and complexity based on the user’s progress, creating a rewarding experience.
Step 5: Monitor Progress in Real-Time
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In-built analytics in the VR system track eye coordination, response times, and therapy adherence.
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Data is automatically logged and analyzed, producing regular progress reports for the user and the ophthalmologist.
Step 6: Periodic Adjustments
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Attend follow-up consultations with the ophthalmologist to review progress.
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Therapy settings, including game difficulty and blurring levels, are fine-tuned to ensure continuous improvement.
Step 7: Complete Therapy
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Upon achieving the desired visual improvements, therapy sessions are reduced or concluded based on the ophthalmologist’s advice.
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Retain access to the VR platform for optional maintenance exercises, ensuring long-term stability.
Step 7: Celebrate Achievements
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Unlock rewards and milestones within therapy games, motivating consistent engagement.
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Experience measurable improvements in visual acuity and binocular synchronization as therapy progresses.
(6) Key Features of VisionRevive:
1. Dichoptic Display System
Provides carefully calibrated visual stimuli to each eye independently, promoting simultaneous visual processing and effectively enhancing binocular vision over time.
2. Customizable Optics
Features adjustable interpupillary distance, brightness, and contrast settings to ensure optimal comfort and tailored prescriptions for each user’s unique treatment needs.​
Game Showcased - Space Defense: Quantum Navigation
Game Description:
​Embark on a thrilling space odyssey with Space Defense: Quantum Navigation, a cutting-edge VR game designed to transform amblyopia therapy into an immersive adventure. Set in the year 2184, players take on the role of Commander Sarah Chen, chief operator of the Quantum Defense Grid, entrusted with guiding mysterious geometric asteroids through perilous space to reach quantum teleportation gates.
The game presents a dynamic environment filled with natural obstacles like solar winds and gravitational eddies, artificial hazards such as dormant drones and derelict satellites, and environmental challenges including dark matter pockets and cosmic string fragments. As players navigate through this labyrinth of challenges, they must strategize, react quickly, and utilize advanced VR controls to ensure the safe passage of their cargo.
Therapy Elements:
The gameplay isn’t just entertaining—it’s scientifically designed to improve visual focus and coordination:
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Dynamic Focus and Depth Perception Training: The game requires players to focus on moving objects and calculate their trajectories, enhancing depth perception and improving the coordination of both eyes.
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Targeted Dichoptic Stimulation: The VR headset integrates therapeutic elements into the game by presenting distinct challenges for each eye, promoting balanced engagement of visual pathways.
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Adaptive Gameplay: As the player progresses, the challenges scale in complexity, ensuring continuous engagement and gradual enhancement of visual focus and cognitive reflexes.
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Spatial Awareness: Tasks like threading asteroids through narrow paths or avoiding obstacles train the brain’s ability to process spatial information, improving binocular vision.
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Precision and Timing: Players must use fine motor skills and carefully timed actions to navigate complex obstacles, further aiding in focus-based therapy.
Experience The Treatment
What makes it better compared to conventional methods?
Tailored therapy based on a consultation with an ophthalmologist, ensuring optimal light intensity and session frequency for effective treatment.
Focuses on improving the brain’s ability to process information from both eyes simultaneously, addressing the root cause of amblyopia.
Actively pursuing clinical trials in partnership with Dr. Agarwal Eye Hospital to gain FDA approval and enhance market credibility.
​Dynamic, immersive games designed for shortening attention spans, making therapy enjoyable for children and adults alike.
It comes with an ophthalmologist consultation, unlike competitors like Luminopia, which require external prescriptions.
By offering compatibility with a broader range of headsets and removing the need for external prescriptions, VisionRevive reduces overall treatment costs.
Designed for at-home therapy, offering a user-friendly solution that eliminates the need for frequent clinic visits.
Accommodates a wider age spectrum (3 years and above) compared to competitors like Luminopia.
There are no language barriers in the therapy games, allowing for widespread adoption across different regions.
Incorporates engaging games, increasing adherence compared to patch therapy, which has only a 50% compliance rate.