Eye Exams in VR Are the Future (And I Tried It!)

**Your Guide Today: Calibrating with Click Air**

Follow the white dot and help me calibrate. Great job, you're all set. Hold the Click Air in your hand and select the buttons on the screen. Keep going, you're doing great. All you need is a VR or AR headset, a clicker, and a technician to walk you through the exam. Either in person or remote, this technology looks for abnormalities in your eye health and can detect possible future eye diseases like glaucoma.

**Understanding Glaucoma**

Glaucoma is the silent stealer of sight. It actually affects your vision from the outside in. That's what we're looking for. Your peripheral vision may be affected, making it difficult to see things on the side. The data from the test is uploaded to the computer and saved in Hero's Patient Portal.

**Accessing Patient Data**

What we're looking at here is the portal. This is what the technician or doctor sees when they access their patient data. All of this is cloud-based, allowing doctors to create appointments and collect data remotely. Each clinic has its own access to their own patient database, with each clinic having its own username and password or credential.

**Protecting Patient Privacy**

The Hero platform takes patient privacy seriously. Firewalls protect each clinic based on that clinic's username and password or credential. This ensures that only authorized personnel can access the patient data. The Hero platform does not have access to another clinic's data, maintaining confidentiality and security.

**Your Eye Exam Experience**

You did great! Your eyes are both healthy, and you passed the test with flying colors. I found the test to be very basic, but nonetheless, it was a professional eye exam. The Hero platform is a subscription-based service that offers over-the-air updates for doctors and hospitals. This ensures they stay up-to-date with the latest software updates and patient portal upgrades.

**Impact on Multi-Doctor Practices**

The Hero Visual Field is a game-changer in multi-doctor practices. It allows doctors to conduct exams from any room, freeing up space and quickening exam times. Patients can undergo exams without having to wait for available rooms, reducing bottlenecks and increasing efficiency.

**Real-Time Vision Correction**

Hebrew offers real-time vision correction using AR or VR headsets. This technology corrects your vision in real time, allowing the visually impaired to see better. The cameras on the devices capture what you're looking at, and through AI algorithms, they modify the video stream to enhance your vision.

**The Future of Vision Correction**

Eventually, patients with eye diseases will have access to augmented reality, real-time vision correcting glasses. These glasses could also incorporate a heads-up display and other visual aids for the visually impaired. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach eye health and wellness.

**The Hero Platform: More Than Just an App**

The Hero platform is not just an app for any AR or VR headset but a comprehensive solution for patients to access from the comfort of their own home. With the current state of eye health technology, it's essential to prioritize our vision and make it accessible to everyone. The Hero platform offers a new way forward in eye care, making it easier for people to manage their eye health.

**Real-Time Vision Correction: Would You Wear AR Glasses?**

The question remains: would you wear AR glasses over traditional glass lenses? This technology has the potential to change the way we think about vision correction. While some may be hesitant to try new technology, others might see it as a game-changer in their daily lives.

**Conclusion**

The Hero platform is revolutionizing the way eye exams are conducted and vision care is approached. With its cloud-based patient portal, real-time vision correction capabilities, and commitment to patient privacy, this technology has the potential to improve the lives of millions worldwide. As we look to the future of eye health, it's essential to consider innovative solutions like the Hero platform and their impact on society.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to hero imagine having your eyes examined by a doctor from the comfort of your own home using your vr headset hero is a software company that is using ar vr and ai to help patients and doctors modernize eye exams in this video i actually got an eye exam using a vr headset and learned how this platform helps spot eye conditions before they can lead to blindness hero's goals are simple make eye health a more accessible personal and affordable experience for all we spoke with heroes founder and ceo muhammad abu shusha about the hero platform hero platform is a wearable platform that provides health and wellness diagnostics for the eye when you go to see an eye doctor you basically sit on many devices each device is what we call furniture grid medical device is not very accurate not very comfortable experience and not cost effective is like expensive devices and we are literally running windows 2000 so imagine replacing all those legacy devices with one platform that can provide the physician with very accurate diagnostics about your eye so he can provide better care for you hero's eye exams consist of six optical tests which are currently being administered by a technician these tests powered by artificial intelligence were developed by the bascom palmer eye institute in miami florida bascom palmer is currently ranked as the number one eye hospital in the united states according to the u.s news and world report the tests are an immersive ar vr experience with sound let's get started that is displayed on a magic leap vr headset at a resolution of 1.3 megapixels and a super fast 120 hertz i was fortunate enough to get my eyes checked by hero's vice president of product innovation keith brock who came by the cnet offices to give us a demo this augmented reality goggle has an external cpu and light pack which keeps the oculars nice and light another notable feature on this headset is there's two ir light sensors which are tracking the patient's eyes throughout the examination why that's important is anytime the patient loses fixation or loses focus on the test we can actually pause the test the onboard personality actually reminds the patient to go ahead and focus once we see that their eyes are fixated then we can continue the testing the hebrew assistant guides you through the eye exam making it super simple to follow welcome to hero i will be your guide today please follow the white dot and help me calibrate great you're all set you hold the click air in your hand and select the buttons on the screen keep going you're doing great all you need is a vr or ar headset a clicker and a technician to walk you through the exam either in person or remote oh this is the first one i'm stumped on i don't know what number this is eventually you may not need a technician at all the ai technology looks for abnormalities in your eye health and can detect possible future eye diseases like glaucoma glaucoma is the silent stealer of sight it actually affects your vision from the outside in that's what we're looking for is your peripheral vision are you starting to lose vision from the outside in all the data from the test is uploaded to the computer and saved in heroes patient portal what we're looking at here is the portal this is what the technician or the doctor this is their interface for the device all of this is cloud-based doctors can access their patient data they can actually create appointments and collect data remotely all they need is a connected device and a browser what about patients privacy how do you protect their privacy we firewall each clinic based on that clinic's username and password or their credential each clinic has their own access to their own patient database we actually at hero don't have access to that clinic's data as well how did i do on my eye exam you did excellence and you have healthy vision i found the test to be very basic and to be honest i was a little let down because i was expecting more of a gaming-like metaverse experience but nonetheless my eyes were professionally examined and they are both healthy so i'm happy about that the hero platform is a subscription-based service over-the-air updates allow the doctors and hospitals to stay up to date with the latest hero eye exams software updates and patient portal upgrades for doctors the hero platform could be a game changer well done the nice part about the hero visual field is we can do it in any exam room and so with a multi-doctor practice sometimes the visual field room can be an area of bottleneck to get patients through the day and so having the ability to have a visual field that's portable and mobile goes right to the patient has freed up some exam space as well as quickened our patient exam times hebrew also offers real-time vision correction using an ar or vr headset to correct your vision right there on the spot real-time vision correction augments the display in the ar or vr headset allowing the visually impaired to increase their field of vision in real time so this is how all of this started we created applications that allows patients to see better the way it does this is it characterizes the vision defect that the patient has and then through ai algorithms it actually in real time modify what the patient is looking at through the glasses in order to allow them to see better to see more the cameras of the devices capturing what they are looking at and in real time modifying that video stream and displaying it to them vision augmentation would be ready by next year to improve the quality of life of patients with vision disorders unfortunately i did not get a chance to try out the real-time vision correcting technology with my age-related macular degeneration but i did book a regular eye exam just for the juxtaposition of vr versus traditional eye exam as ar technology for eyeglasses improves eventually patients with eye diseases will be able to access augmented reality real-time vision correcting glasses which could also incorporate a heads-up display and other visual aids for the visually impaired 1541 sprinter amsterdam central when we ask people what is your biggest fear it is death and going blind and going blind is actually sometimes people are concerned about it even more than dying but we do very little for our vision you know the health and wellness of our eyes is something that we aren't really doing well at and that is driven by the current technology in the physician offices as a surgeon as a physician this is what i'm trained to do this is my passion but i'm limited by the current technology and what we did is we actually build a new technology and we give it to our patients and this is very rewarding for us down the road the hero platform could become an app for any ar or vr headset for any patient to access from the comfort of their own home our eye health is one of our most important assets so it's best to keep it in check and get an eye exam regularly if you found this video informative and want to learn more like and subscribe to cnet's massive youtube channel and check out the links to the hero platform in the description of this video and let me know what you think about real-time vision correction would you wear ar glasses over traditional glass lenses let me know in the comments and bye for now well done please remove the headset and hand it to the operator youwelcome to hero imagine having your eyes examined by a doctor from the comfort of your own home using your vr headset hero is a software company that is using ar vr and ai to help patients and doctors modernize eye exams in this video i actually got an eye exam using a vr headset and learned how this platform helps spot eye conditions before they can lead to blindness hero's goals are simple make eye health a more accessible personal and affordable experience for all we spoke with heroes founder and ceo muhammad abu shusha about the hero platform hero platform is a wearable platform that provides health and wellness diagnostics for the eye when you go to see an eye doctor you basically sit on many devices each device is what we call furniture grid medical device is not very accurate not very comfortable experience and not cost effective is like expensive devices and we are literally running windows 2000 so imagine replacing all those legacy devices with one platform that can provide the physician with very accurate diagnostics about your eye so he can provide better care for you hero's eye exams consist of six optical tests which are currently being administered by a technician these tests powered by artificial intelligence were developed by the bascom palmer eye institute in miami florida bascom palmer is currently ranked as the number one eye hospital in the united states according to the u.s news and world report the tests are an immersive ar vr experience with sound let's get started that is displayed on a magic leap vr headset at a resolution of 1.3 megapixels and a super fast 120 hertz i was fortunate enough to get my eyes checked by hero's vice president of product innovation keith brock who came by the cnet offices to give us a demo this augmented reality goggle has an external cpu and light pack which keeps the oculars nice and light another notable feature on this headset is there's two ir light sensors which are tracking the patient's eyes throughout the examination why that's important is anytime the patient loses fixation or loses focus on the test we can actually pause the test the onboard personality actually reminds the patient to go ahead and focus once we see that their eyes are fixated then we can continue the testing the hebrew assistant guides you through the eye exam making it super simple to follow welcome to hero i will be your guide today please follow the white dot and help me calibrate great you're all set you hold the click air in your hand and select the buttons on the screen keep going you're doing great all you need is a vr or ar headset a clicker and a technician to walk you through the exam either in person or remote oh this is the first one i'm stumped on i don't know what number this is eventually you may not need a technician at all the ai technology looks for abnormalities in your eye health and can detect possible future eye diseases like glaucoma glaucoma is the silent stealer of sight it actually affects your vision from the outside in that's what we're looking for is your peripheral vision are you starting to lose vision from the outside in all the data from the test is uploaded to the computer and saved in heroes patient portal what we're looking at here is the portal this is what the technician or the doctor this is their interface for the device all of this is cloud-based doctors can access their patient data they can actually create appointments and collect data remotely all they need is a connected device and a browser what about patients privacy how do you protect their privacy we firewall each clinic based on that clinic's username and password or their credential each clinic has their own access to their own patient database we actually at hero don't have access to that clinic's data as well how did i do on my eye exam you did excellence and you have healthy vision i found the test to be very basic and to be honest i was a little let down because i was expecting more of a gaming-like metaverse experience but nonetheless my eyes were professionally examined and they are both healthy so i'm happy about that the hero platform is a subscription-based service over-the-air updates allow the doctors and hospitals to stay up to date with the latest hero eye exams software updates and patient portal upgrades for doctors the hero platform could be a game changer well done the nice part about the hero visual field is we can do it in any exam room and so with a multi-doctor practice sometimes the visual field room can be an area of bottleneck to get patients through the day and so having the ability to have a visual field that's portable and mobile goes right to the patient has freed up some exam space as well as quickened our patient exam times hebrew also offers real-time vision correction using an ar or vr headset to correct your vision right there on the spot real-time vision correction augments the display in the ar or vr headset allowing the visually impaired to increase their field of vision in real time so this is how all of this started we created applications that allows patients to see better the way it does this is it characterizes the vision defect that the patient has and then through ai algorithms it actually in real time modify what the patient is looking at through the glasses in order to allow them to see better to see more the cameras of the devices capturing what they are looking at and in real time modifying that video stream and displaying it to them vision augmentation would be ready by next year to improve the quality of life of patients with vision disorders unfortunately i did not get a chance to try out the real-time vision correcting technology with my age-related macular degeneration but i did book a regular eye exam just for the juxtaposition of vr versus traditional eye exam as ar technology for eyeglasses improves eventually patients with eye diseases will be able to access augmented reality real-time vision correcting glasses which could also incorporate a heads-up display and other visual aids for the visually impaired 1541 sprinter amsterdam central when we ask people what is your biggest fear it is death and going blind and going blind is actually sometimes people are concerned about it even more than dying but we do very little for our vision you know the health and wellness of our eyes is something that we aren't really doing well at and that is driven by the current technology in the physician offices as a surgeon as a physician this is what i'm trained to do this is my passion but i'm limited by the current technology and what we did is we actually build a new technology and we give it to our patients and this is very rewarding for us down the road the hero platform could become an app for any ar or vr headset for any patient to access from the comfort of their own home our eye health is one of our most important assets so it's best to keep it in check and get an eye exam regularly if you found this video informative and want to learn more like and subscribe to cnet's massive youtube channel and check out the links to the hero platform in the description of this video and let me know what you think about real-time vision correction would you wear ar glasses over traditional glass lenses let me know in the comments and bye for now well done please remove the headset and hand it to the operator you\n"