Syt-AJ: Treating Lazy Eye Using Virtual Reality

With 5% world population, i.e., 3.9 million people, being affected by amblyopia or “lazy eye” and 7% increase in rate of children being diagnosed in India, there is a need for a treatment method which is cheap as well as available to all. Traditional approaches like wearing adhesive patches on non-amblyopic eye, blurring non-amblyopic eye vision using atropine and eye surgery, aiming at increased usage of the lazy eye are either costly and unavailable to all or non-compliant with pediatric patients. Our proposed system, Syt-AJ, includes treating lazy eye using binocular amblyopia therapy approach which is based on virtual reality (VR) technology with full-field vision in an interactive and cost-effective manner. Our system trains the patient on eye–eye coordination, brain–eye coordination and hand–eye coordination using games and visual environments designed for the same. Constant simulation of the lazy eye increases visual acuity and improves stereovision of the amblyopic eye.