---
title: "Can Virtual Reality Fix People’s Vision?"
description: "James Blaha has strabismus -- \"crossed eyes\" -- and he's fixing them with a Oculus Rift. He says he's gained about 80 percent of his stereo vision."
date: "2015-08-27"
modified: "2015-08-27"
authors:
  - name: "Kif Leswing"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kif_leswing"
url: "https://futurism.com/can-virtual-reality-fix-peoples-vision"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Virtual Reality"
---

# Can Virtual Reality Fix People’s Vision?

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/virtual-reality.jpg>)

- Blaha is the CEO and founder of See Vividly, which is a company using virtual reality to send different images to each eye, ultimately strengthening the weaker eye. The traditional cure for "lazy eyes" is low tech: an eyepatch.
- See Vividly's product isn't available to individuals, but that's mainly because the Oculus Rift hasn't been released in commercial form at this point. It's currently being tested in clinics.
- In a study done at the University of California San Francisco, nine out of 15 participants with amblyopia -- lazy eye -- showed improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRT-7V6p8aw