GlassesOff Inc. (OTC:GLSO) today announced that the company’s Chief
Scientific Officer will present new scientific data from recent studies,
using GlassesOff’s proprietary neuroscientific technology, that
demonstrate the transfer of Perceptual Learning tasks to practical
improvement in visual functions.
In these studies, participants that trained on a specific visual task
demonstrated improvement in various vision functions, suggesting that
GlassesOff’s technology is not limited to reading improvement and can be
effective in numerous vision functions.
Prof. Polat will report results obtained from two different subject
groups: 1) group of presbyopes (aging eye, average age ~51 years) and 2)
group of young subjects (20-30 years old). In both groups training with
the GlassesOff product improved multiple visual functions such as
contrast sensitivity, visual acuity, crowding, reaction time, 3D vision,
object detection and reading speed.
The robust results from the studies indicate that there is a potential
to develop additional commercial applications utilizing the GlassesOff
platform. These applications will be designated to improve multiple
visual functions, including 3D vision, reaction time and object
detection in several mass market segments, including sports performance
for hundreds of millions of professional and amateur athletes,
applications for increase in reading speed for school children, as well
as other mass market applications.
Prof Polat, CSO and co-founder of GlassesOff™ commented, “The transfer
of learning to different visual functions indicates that the improvement
can be generalized. The transfer between different visual tasks can be
achieved by improving the processing speed, which enables more efficient
processing of many visual functions.”
The data will be presented on August 28, 2013, at the European
Conference on Visual Perception, on Wednesday, August 28 in Bremen,
Germany.
About GlassesOff™
GlassesOff Inc. is a company developing and commercializing next
generation vision sharpness applications. GlassesOff™ has developed a
proprietary, patent-protected technology platform to improve near vision
sharpness, by improving the image processing function in the visual
cortex of the brain, without changing the optical characteristics of the
eye. The GlassesOff™ product has been designed to eliminate
the dependency on reading glasses of people over the age of 40 who
experience natural age-related changes in their near vision sharpness.
The GlassesOff™ product is expected to be sold initially as
an iPhone/iPad app, and was named one of the top Emerging Breakthroughs
in Science and Technology for 2013 by Reader’s Digest Magazine. For more
information, visit www.glassesoff.com.
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