Virtual Reality Helps with Poor Sight
Many of you may have seen the Morning BBC News programme on 2 December with Stan Karpenko discussing the use of the
new Virtual reality headsets to help people with poor vision.
You can watch it again from this link
Or Perhaps Augmented Reality may be a better term as this device enhances
the real word assisting the vision
More information on this can be found at
They are happy to offer a free trial of the device.
I think this is a very exciting development which has evolved from the investment that has been made in the virtual reality headsets that gamers us so much these combined with maturation of the Smart Phone.
I think we will see a number of different manufactures now developing such devices to help people with poor vision.
The early designs seem very much to be adaptations of current gaming hardware but I am sure that manufactures will produce devices that
are much more fashionable and acceptable to wear.