Virtual Reality (VR) in Optometry

Course duration: 2 to 3 months.

Course facilitator: Maheswari Srinivasan M.Optom, F.I.A.C.L.E, F.A.S.C.O.

Introductory session:

• What is virtual reality?
• Applications of virtual reality
• Future of optometry and expected impact of virtual reality on optometry.

Course content (main course)

• Virtual reality optics
• Virtual reality design
• Applications in Optometry
• Commercially available VR applications
• VR project (guided project)

What will you learn? ( main course)

At the end of the course

• The participants can understand and use a virtual reality device in clinical testing.
• The participants will be able to design their own innovative virtual reality head mounted device.
• The participants will be able to create innovative solutions for clinical challenges related to sports vision, binocular vision and low vision.
• The participants will be able to take up Virtual reality based projects for their thesis work.

Who can attend? ( main course and introductory session)

• Optometrists
• Optometry students
• Masters of Optometry students
• Ophthalmologists
• Optometry teaching faculties.
• And anybody who has the passion to do something different