At present, there are about 70 million visually impaired patients in the world. OxSight , a newly established start-up company last year , which is trying to design a VR head by enhancing practical skills to allow visually impaired patients to regain their vision.
There are some studies of the almost blind patients that are unable to see things completely. But vision degradation can not distinguish a variety of light, the displacement of objects, and shape changes. OxSight is here to take advantage of the patient’s little bit of sight.
Stephen Hicks a co founder and neurologist says, “Once you start losing sight, what you can see is just blurred. Making it difficult to distinguish between foreground and background objects. Which we are going to do here is to identify an object and highlight them.
which allows users to be more intuitive and interactive in dealing with the world in a way that really takes advantage of only a small amount of vision for those going in visually impaired.
The brain handles three-dimensional space. Similar to how modern game cameras map and define differences between floors, sofas and walls. They identify larger objects and calculate the relationship between them and the user.
OxSight Technology Based On?
OxSight attempts to use this mapping concept and how the brain works to add a cartoon layer to the user’s surroundings. In the eyes of the visually impaired patients, the others see more like cardboard. And the user can change their content by raising the color, or zooming in or out. Every vision of the visually impaired patient is different.
OxSight built this product specially for visually imapred persons, you can manually adjust, so that users know where they are and what is around.
The product must meet specific needs, such as identifying objects, product profiles. And durable battery life. OxSight is for helping the visually impaired and planning to build a platform to meet their needs. And develop as the future of hardware grows.