Finally, an approach to amblyopia that works…

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention.

For my daughter’s amblyopia that was the case. It came with a $40,000 price tag. Ten years of vision therapy.  Progress, but far from enough.

Then two research papers pointed to a solution.  Video training was having results with adults, something previously thought to be impossible. But playing computer games, with a different image fed to each eye was restoring binocular vision. It was being done in a lab, with special equipment. It wasn’t something that would be widely available for years. I begged the question. Could I build my own?

The result is the package you see before you.

A simple…

 

My daughter says it is like seeing “two playing boards” at once. Her brain is actively imaging with both eyes simultaneously. After years of vision therapy, all with the goal of overcoming her h brain’s well-developed preference to see with only one eye at a time.

 

It”s the simplest possible execution, in a fun, engaging game that resembles Tetris(tm)…