Lazy eye, or amblyopia, is typically treated with eye patches or special eye drops that block vision in the good eye so that the weaker one is forced to develop better. This normally involves young children who all too often hate eye drops and refuse to wear patches over the very eye that they see well through.
The Amblyz glasses from XPAND, a company better known for 3D movie glasses, offer visual occlusion without the anxiety of eye drops or the embarrassment of patches. At the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in Las Vegas this week, results of a study using the programmable glasses have been presented, and they’re quite positive.
