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
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 24 Lessons
- 12 Weeks
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- Virtual reality optics (5 hours)12
- 1.1VR Introduction
- 1.2Commercially Available Devices
- 1.3Basics of optics, convex lens, magnification, object and image distance
- 1.4Introduction of optics in Virtual reality
- 1.5Custom Made VR Optics
- 1.6Vritual reality software- Unity basics
- 1.7Virtual reality systems: construction of the device
- 1.8Virtual reality systems: construction of the device Day- ||
- 1.9Applications of VR in Optometry-I
- 1.10Applications of VR in Optometry-II
- 1.11Applications of VR in Optometry-III
- 1.12Example Of Virtual Reality
- Virtual reality design (5 hours)4
- Applications in Optometry ( 4 or 5 hours)3
- Commercially available VR applications.(3 or 4 hours)3
- VR project (guided project) ( 5 or 6 hours)2
