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diego_moitayesterday at 9:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Nah...

The coolest use I've seen is a research at the University of Alberta (Canada) that aims to use the Vision Pro to alleviate nystagmus[1].

This is a disease on the muscles that control the eyes' direction. It causes the eyes to twitch involuntarily. They use the Visio Pro to "twitch" the image along with the eye, so the patient doesn't feel the jitter. It enables them to read, watch movies, etc.

Another cool one is to use them to substitute the visual field test machines in ophthalmology offices. These are machines that cost U$15 000.00 dollars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus


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betamaxthetapetoday at 12:44 AM

Do you have a source for this? Sounds interesting...

sleepybrettyesterday at 10:17 PM

the steam frame will also have eye tracking cameras.