Dichoptic e-reader application for amblyopia treatment

 

 

Application could be developed that allows user to read e-books on a display that presents different images to the left and right eye (dichoptic presentation). Some of the words or letters would be missing in the image presented to the one of the eyes, forcing the brain of a person that cannot correctly process input from one of the eyes to combine visual information from both eyes (dichoptic training).

Application should have wide selection of fonts and their sizes. There are fonts designed to mitigate some of reading errors caused by dyslexia such as OpenDyslexic.

I imagine that dichoptic e-reader application would be run on a computer connected to an old 3D TV (hundreds of millions of them were probably produced). Dedicated hardware that combines features of Amazon Kindle and Nintendo 3DS could also be manufactured. High-Rank 3D Display could potentially be used in dedicated hardware, but low crosstalk is of a paramount importance in this application, so good old passive 3D based on glasses with polarization filters might be the best option.

I have already developed some devices that can be used to treat amblyopia. Unfortunately they all were a custom-made hardware and sometimes needed a 3D display. 3D TVs and monitors were quite popular in the past, but then corporations stopped supporting them (for example anti-consumer Nvidia removed 3D Vision from their closed-source drivers). “Fortunately” Acer started recently to sell small and expensive glasses-free 3D monitors.