VR Helps Treat Poor Vision — North Jersey Section Student Chapter makes headlines!

Five students supported by an IEEE program used a VR system to create a fun and inexpensive way to treat a vision problem in young people.

Since its inception, EPICS in IEEE has sought to show the benefits of empowering students to work with local service organizations to engineer and implement solutions for their communities’ unique challenges. One example is a virtual reality project to treat binocular dysfunction being led by five New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) students.

Read the article by Saurabh Sinha at EE Times!

Featured Image: Students built a system based on a Raspberry Pi board, Oculus Rift and tablets. (Images: IEEE)