Neurolens introduces VR technology to measure binocular alignment
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LAS VEGAS — Neurolens announced the release of N3, a virtual reality experience that educates patients on binocular alignment and measures the parameters necessary for creating spectacle lenses to correct misalignments.
During a company-sponsored event at Vision Expo West, Neurolens CEO Pierre Bertrand said, “We created an opportunity to help providers and help patients understand why their symptoms are connected to their eyes and how Neurolens can help.”
The company said in a press release that the technology in the VR headset tests the patient’s heterophoria, fixation disparity, accommodative convergence response, and central and peripheral alignment to determine a measurement of binocular alignment.
Neurolens measured 1.3 million patients and collected 10 billion data points on its previous measurement device, Bertrand said.
“The precision and repeatability in these [N3] devices is even better than our last generation,” he said. “We can still detect eye misalignment with this advanced eye tracking technology to decimals of a diopter. And the fact that it’s portable is going to allow us to put it into place in the exam lane, use time that is not used today, free up your pretest lane and allow you to be more efficient than ever.”
The test objectively measures distance and near vision as well as direction of gaze, peripheral fusion and alignment. The VR technology also teaches patients about binocular alignment.
“We’re helping providers help their patients,” Amanda Nanasy, OD, who also spoke at the Neurolens event, said. “Even if we understand the condition, sometimes we’re not so good at explaining it, and this does it for you. It’s literally a game-changer.”
Nanasy, director of the Florida Institute of Sports Vision at The Eye Center in Pembroke Pines, Florida, added, “There are a small number of optometrists [who] are really comfortable with binocular vision, but this makes it where every single eye care provider can help all of those patients the same way I do.”
The test takes only 3 minutes to run, Nanasy noted, and provides the clinician with information on what to prescribe.
“It’s not just that [the patient] can see clearly,” she said, “but [the Neurolens spectacles] change [their] life and take away symptoms [the patient] had no idea the eye care provider could even touch.”
Nanasy said she has helped children who could not stand up straight as well as patients with recurrent headaches of unknown etiology.
“They’re seeing several doctors and they’re on medications that make them sick, and they had no idea this could help them,” she said.
“As we try to broaden our scope, how cool is it that we’re going back to refraction ... to take better care of our patients? This provides instant access to specialty care in a primary care setting.”
Reference:
- Neurolens introduces N3. https://blog.neurolens.com/neurolens-introduces-n3. Published Sept. 28, 2023. Accessed Oct. 4, 2023.
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