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ESight introduces video eye wear for low vision patients

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LAS VEGAS — Here at Vision Expo West, eSight launched “intelligent eye wear” that enables patients with low vision or legal blindness to see.

 ESight eyewear, which looks like a pair of fit-over sunglasses, uses a high-resolution video camera to film what the wearer is looking at and deliver the images to a computer. Those images are processed and then projected, in real time, onto two LED screens inside the eye wear, according to a company press release.

“ESight can digitally optimize video in such a way that awakens the residual function of the remaining functioning neurons or cones,” the company said in the press release. “The eSight-enhanced image causes the remaining photoreceptors to send an improved signal to the brain.”

The company said the eye wear is best suited for people with visual acuity between 20/60 and 20/400. It includes the patient’s prescription lenses and is customized. The eye wear is available in select low vision clinics in the U.S. and Canada.