Treatment of Amblyopia accessible for all
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Denys Goncharenko
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Campaign Story
Treatment of Amblyopia accessible for all
Amblyopia (lazy eye) is the decrease of vision in one or both eyes due to abnormal vision development during childhood. The vision process involves both the eyes and the brain. Amblyopia is the failure of the vision-sensing portions of the brain to develop normally, which results in blurry vision. It is one of the leading causes of vision loss in children.
Amblyopia is generally the result of poor early visual
development. It usually occurs before the age of 8. Infants born
prematurely or with low birth weight are at a greater risk for
developing the condition.
An estimated 2 to 4 percent of children have amblyopia. The chance of amblyopia developing during adulthood is very small.
Problem
There are many ways to treat a lazy eye.
Modern technologies allow treating this disease in a game form, which is especially important for children.
As
one of the most common causes of visual impairment, amblyopia affects
nearly 3 percent of the population. It occurs as a result of improper
brain processing, causing the weaker eye to be suppressed by the
stronger eye. People with lazy eye will not be able to focus properly
with one of their eyes – the eye with impaired vision (amblyopia) will
not receive clear images.
Treatment options for this condition
include patching the stronger eye to make the weaker one work more.
However, this form of treatment has only been successful in children.
Playing
the lazy eye game requires information to be sent to both eyes, making
them work cooperatively. By making both eyes cooperate, the amblyopic
brain is able to relearn as a result of an increase in the level of
plasticity in the brain.
The patients who played the game
with both eyes experienced significant improvement in their vision of
the weaker eye after only two weeks.
Unfortunately, most of these services are to expensive and available only in the doctor's office.
So, here is the link on one of pay-for-game startups for usual 3d glasses :
http://lazyeyegames.com/#/
Using VR to treat binocular visual disorders
Like the amblyoscope, the VR headset allows direct independent control of separate images for
the two eyes. It's more effective than old technologies and more safety
Decision
Our
team set a goal to create a computer game that is designed to treat a
lazy eye. The game will be developed for Oculus Rift VR,HTC VIVE, Sony
Gear VR
Now you do not have to wait in line for the doctor's office
but simply download the game from our website (currently we develop our
website, demo will be available 1 December 2017)
Advantages and current limitations
Like
previous computer-based methods such as the HTS Amblyopia iNet program,
VR treatments can automatically adjust the level of task difficulty,
tracking the patient’s ability as it improves, and does not require
constant supervision by the clinician. But in addition, the treatments
can be made immersive, and much more fun for patients to do. The promise
of good adherence, together with recent literature on perceptual
learning in adults, is stimulating a great deal of new research and
development in the use of VR to treat binocular disorders in both
children and adults. The best uses of VR for treatment are undoubtedly
still to be discovered, but there is now sufficient cumulative
experience with VR systems such as Vivid Vision to see that VR will
become a permanent feature of the treatment landscape.
We
will run blog here, and as we get some amount of money , we will write
here kind of road map, what will be done and what was done
We will continue our reaserch to make the treatment of a lazy eye maximally accessible to all
Join us and help to make world better
Rewards
Thank you so much! We send on your email digital post card We so appreciated your help !
Thank you so much! We send a video thanks of our CEO. We will distribute our soft in orphanages for free and we record the video-report about how you help children who cant afford lazy eye treatment
Thank you so much! We send a video thanks of our CEO. We will distribute our soft in orphanages for free and we record the video-report about how you help children who cant afford lazy eye treatment Also we send you on email copy of our game for free
Organizer
- Denys Goncharenko
- Campaign Owner
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