Treating farsightedness in three months.... on the phone
Monday, January 23, 2012
The GlassesOff application operates by stimulating the visual cortex. According to Ucansi, it “enhances the visual system’s image processing capabilities with the help of the Gabor patches, using the brain as optical lenses.” Consequently, the brain’s image processing speed and quality are boosted. Still according to the company, three 15-minute sessions per week over three months is all it takes to achieve an improvement of 80% in visual acuity. Patients can therefore get rid of their glasses. This app could also prevent farsightedness to manifest itself in people over 40.
This is not the first time that a new treatment has promised to replace glasses. When contact lenses first appeared on the market, several people claimed that they would quickly take the place of glasses. More recently, the arrival of laser refractive surgery led us to believe that most people would prefer to solve their vision problem at the source. So far, however, good old-fashioned glasses are most popular. Will the GlassesOff application change people’s minds?
Source: http://www.glassesoff.com/
http://www.acuite.fr/articles.asp?REF=7387