My story is I’ve been obsessed with my eye health for years. I have high myopia and was a software engineer and often get blurry vision after a long work day. It’s very frustrating that there are no good solutions out there for digital eye strain. Doctors will tell you “just take more breaks” but that doesn’t feel sustainable when I have to spend half of my waking hours or more in front of a screen every single day for work. I feel that screens are the root cause - a technology problem that deserves a technology solution. I wanted to do everything possible to prevent eye strain on the day to day, and worsening vision in the long term, while still using a computer.
We’ve worked with Stanford ophthalmologists to bring clinically grounded perspectives to our first product.
Our goal is to help you use a computer for hours without eye strain, and for kids, to maybe even prevent myopia progression. For those curious I have more details below. If you have any questions feel free to drop your email on the bottom of this link and I’ll reach out https://www.visualinstruments.co/phantom/display.
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More details:
On digital eye strain
- If you go to an eye doctor complaining of digital eye strain they’ll tell you to do the 20/20/20 rule - look 20 feet away every 20 minutes.
- The point of the 20/20/20 rule is switching your depth of focus, which exercises your focusing (ciliary) muscle through its full range of motion.
- Our display helps you switch your depth of focus much more frequently because you can look through it.
- Looking through a screen is much easier than moving your head and eyes away from a regular screen.
- Frequent focus switching prevents accommodative spasm (a big component of eye strain)
On myopia progression
- Mostly a problem for kids, but adult myopia progression is more common now
- Research suggests that increasing ambient light exposure is protective against myopia progression in children (see ref).
- Our screen helps you get more ambient light to your eyes because it can be pointed out a window or even used outside. Most screens can’t be comfortably viewed outside, but ours is an order of magnitude brighter than most screens (several thousand nits peak brightness)
Everyone’s eye health is basically getting put through the meat grinder because of screen time nowadays - we want to change that.
Down the line we hope to add in a bunch of software + eye tracking to track your eye health and intervene on your behalf to protect your vision.
Really appreciate the comments.
My story is I’ve been obsessed with my eye health for years. I have high myopia and was a software engineer and often get blurry vision after a long work day. It’s very frustrating that there are no good solutions out there for digital eye strain. Doctors will tell you “just take more breaks” but that doesn’t feel sustainable when I have to spend half of my waking hours or more in front of a screen every single day for work. I feel that screens are the root cause - a technology problem that deserves a technology solution. I wanted to do everything possible to prevent eye strain on the day to day, and worsening vision in the long term, while still using a computer.
We’ve worked with Stanford ophthalmologists to bring clinically grounded perspectives to our first product.
Our goal is to help you use a computer for hours without eye strain, and for kids, to maybe even prevent myopia progression. For those curious I have more details below. If you have any questions feel free to drop your email on the bottom of this link and I’ll reach out https://www.visualinstruments.co/phantom/display.
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More details:
On digital eye strain
- If you go to an eye doctor complaining of digital eye strain they’ll tell you to do the 20/20/20 rule - look 20 feet away every 20 minutes.
- The point of the 20/20/20 rule is switching your depth of focus, which exercises your focusing (ciliary) muscle through its full range of motion.
- Our display helps you switch your depth of focus much more frequently because you can look through it.
- Looking through a screen is much easier than moving your head and eyes away from a regular screen.
- Frequent focus switching prevents accommodative spasm (a big component of eye strain)
On myopia progression
- Mostly a problem for kids, but adult myopia progression is more common now
- Research suggests that increasing ambient light exposure is protective against myopia progression in children (see ref).
- Our screen helps you get more ambient light to your eyes because it can be pointed out a window or even used outside. Most screens can’t be comfortably viewed outside, but ours is an order of magnitude brighter than most screens (several thousand nits peak brightness)
Everyone’s eye health is basically getting put through the meat grinder because of screen time nowadays - we want to change that. Down the line we hope to add in a bunch of software + eye tracking to track your eye health and intervene on your behalf to protect your vision.
Ref: https://www.myopiaprofile.com/articles/the-visual-environmen...
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