{"id":2052,"date":"2016-02-28T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:55:40","slug":"cheap-visual-aid-for-people-with-poor-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/cheap-visual-aid-for-people-with-poor-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap visual aid for people with poor vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just come across an interesting approach to help patients with poor vision&#8211;using <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=air.NearSighted&amp;hl=en\">a smartphone app<\/a> designed for augmenting vision with <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/cardboard\/\">google cardboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I first came across this approach through this youtube video. It shows how the approach helped a lady who suffered from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindness.org\/stargardt-disease\">Stargardt&#8217;s disease<\/a> and could not see well for eight years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0LBKNC7xj6M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After using the app and google cardboard, she seemed to see much better and was so excited by the experience. I find this interesting because many of my friends and relatives suffered from poor vision. They can potentially see better through this simple and cheap approach. I am going to set this up for my parents soon and see if that helps them see better!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just come across an interesting approach to help patients with poor vision&#8211;using a smartphone app designed for augmenting vision with google cardboard. I first came across this approach through this youtube video. It shows how the approach helped a lady who suffered from Stargardt&#8217;s disease and could not see well for eight years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[404,409,406,408,197,407,405],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","tag-google-cardboard","tag-low-vision","tag-near-sighted-vr-augmented-aid","tag-poor-vision","tag-retinal-degeneration","tag-smartphone","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}