The VisionActor is an innovative way to take eye exams. It’s a combination eye exam and eye glasses dispensing machine. This new machine offers the latest in technology and convenience for consumers. In addition, it’s also a great business opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors.
Features & Benefits:
– Eye Exams: The VisionActor offers vision tests that are both accurate and quick. The machine quickly performs tests of near and far vision, astigmatism, color perception and depth perception. The results are saved on a computer chip inside the machine and can be e-mailed directly to your doctor.
– Dispensing: VisionActor also offers prescription eyeglasses. In addition to providing prescription eyeglasses, VisionActor also offers contact lenses, sunglasses, safety glasses and reading glasses. These products are pre-packaged onsite at the VisionActor facility for immediate dispensing.”
Inventor and entrepreneur Bonnier Korieh is working with a team to create a new way to take eye exams (eye-exams) using virtual reality. The project, VisionActor, is in the early stages of development but has the potential to revolutionize the way millions of people receive eye care.
Korieh and his team are hoping that the VisionActor system will replace traditional eye charts, which require patients to read letters on a wall or screen. Instead, a patient would wear virtual reality gear and be immersed in a virtual environment where they can identify objects by reading signs or recognizing shapes. This method would make it possible for people of all ages and backgrounds to take an eye exam, since they wouldn’t need to read English or know any other specific language.
According to Korieh, this method could also be used in place of older vision tests such as the Snellen test (which uses symbols instead of letters) and Landolt Cs (which use circles instead of letters).
Innovation in the healthcare sector is something that is always welcomed and appreciated. Lenskart, an online eyewear brand, has come up with a unique way to conduct eye exams.
A report by The Times Of India says that the firm has introduced a mobile van which will house all kinds of equipment that can be used to conduct eye exams.
This mobile van will travel across various cities and villages and will also provide free check-ups to people who require it. The van is equipped with a lensometer, auto-refractometer, retinoscope and phoropter, all instruments used for general eye check-up.
The van also houses a 3D printer which can print spectacles in less than 10 minutes.
It was launched recently at Gurgaon, Haryana and will soon be hitting the roads of Dehradun and Jaipur.
“The idea behind the mobile clinic is to create awareness about eye care amongst the public,” said Amit Chaudhary, chief executive officer (CEO) at Lenskart Solutions Pvt Ltd. “We want to take our services to rural areas where access to basic healthcare facilities is limited.”
The report also says that while consumers can approach this mobile van for free
During the last week of January, I was contacted by a representative from VisionActor.
VisionActor is an innovative new way to take an eye exam. Using just your smartphone and computer, you can do a full eye exam in under 10 minutes and get your prescription at the end of the exam.
As I’ve mentioned before, my vision has gotten progressively worse over the years. My prescription has changed considerably in the last few years, which means that I need to get more frequent eye exams than I used to.
While this isn’t a big deal for me as an adult, it can be frustrating and time consuming — not to mention expensive — for kids whose eyes change every year. For adults who don’t have vision insurance and have to pay out of pocket, it can also be a huge financial burden.
Enter VisionActor.
Our vision is to make eye care affordable and accessible to all.
The first step in this journey is to bring down the cost of eye exams, which can be as high as $100 – $150.
The cost of eye exams is primarily driven by the cost of the equipment and the expertise required to conduct them.
Our mission is to use low-cost hardware & software technologies to make the experience more affordable and accessible. We believe that using technology to supplement a human expert will not only improve access but also accuracy of diagnosis.
The normal way we do eye exams requires a large, expensive machine and a trained optometrist. The traditional solution to this problem is telemedicine: you go to a kiosk where you can video chat with an optometrist, who does the exam remotely.
But what if you could have a fully automated solution? That’s the promise of VisionActor, which uses computer vision and machine learning technology to check your eyes without any human intervention. The company was founded by two Berkeley PhDs, who are currently raising funding on AngelList.
VisionActor’s approach is an example of how many industries will be disrupted by the rise of artificial intelligence. Their website gives the example of customer service centers, which employ hundreds of thousands of agents to answer phone calls from customers. A future version of this could be fully automated, using speech recognition and natural language processing tools to understand what the customer wants and respond appropriately.
The eyeglass prescription you get at the end of an eye exam is not the same as what you get when your eyes are dilated.
Dilated eyes allow for a more comprehensive examination and better diagnosis, but patients don’t like having eye drops put in their eyes (it stings, and the dilation can take hours to wear off), so some physicians skip dilation. For a routine exam, that’s fine — unless something is wrong — but in practice it means that most people who have cataracts or glaucoma aren’t diagnosed until they have vision loss.
But what if there were a way to tell if someone had early-stage cataracts or glaucoma, without using eye drops? If we could diagnose those conditions earlier, then it would be possible to preserve people’s sight and avoid the blindness, disability, and cost of later-stage disease.
That’s the idea behind the RetinaVue Network. Instead of just photographing the back of the eye, our non-invasive imaging technology acquires a high-resolution photograph of the retina as well as other parts of the eye that cannot be seen during an ordinary exam. This technology lets us see early
