ANR DEVISE

More than one million persons in France are blind in the central part of their visual field because of non-curable retinopathy (mainly Age-related Macular Degeneration - AMD). Central field loss induces dramatic deficits in several high-level perceptual abilities.

Design and test novel technologies for visual rehabilitation and visual aids where patients will be assisted by personalized head-free methods allowing smart pointing and augmentation to improve their visual perception.

Revisit theories about excentric viewing by experimental investigation of patient’s ability to interact through head-free pointing tasks with a VR environment.

Individualization of our solutions will rely on retinal imaging techniques.

To conduct our experiments we are currently developing the Perception Toolbox for Virtual Reality (PTVR). PTVR is a Python library to build easily complex behavioral experiments in VR... and the good news is that we want to share this tool with the vision science community!