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Study: Vision testing rates at well-child visits low in US

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Less than half of children and adolescents with private insurance received vision testing during a wellness ...
Science Daily

New virtual reality-tested system shows promise in aiding navigation of people with blindness or low vision

A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality. The system, which combines vibrational and ...
Business Wire

Be My Eyes Announces New Tool Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Improve Accessibility for People Who are Blind or Have Low-Vision

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Be My Eyes, the mobile app that allows anyone to assist visually impaired people through live video calls, today announced Virtual Volunteer™, the first-ever digital ...
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Low luminance reduces face recognition, especially among those with central vision loss

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Facial identity discrimination accuracy decreased by 20.4% under low luminance for those with central vision ...
Managed Healthcare Executive

Many inherited eye disease genes rarely cause vision loss, study found

Many genetic variants linked to inherited eye disorders rarely lead to disease, meaning up to 2% of people could carry these variants without ever developing vision problems, according to a new s tudy ...