What Are the Best Digital Treatments for Amblyopia Today?
In the last decade several digital methods emerged in amblyopia treatments, in cooperation or in substitution of occlusion therapy.
These methods can be based on:
Dicopthic presentation (different images presented to each eye);
Perceptual learning (tasks to improve visual skills);
Visual stimulations.
All available digital tratments are home-based. Solutions can be software based or cloud-based, other need special hardware or VR headsets.
Here you can find a survey of the digital treatments available in the market, updated for 2025.
Bynocs is a patented dichoptic therapy that uses anaglyphs and a patented software to let the strong eye view images at a lower level of contrast.
It offers three cloud-based videogames and exercises for fusional vergences, to perform at home or in clinic
The speed and the levels of contrasts of the games are customized
It is recommended to use it for 30-40 minutes, at least 5 times a week. A good result can be expected in 6-8 week
It contains an exercises based diagnosis of the amblyopia severity
It offers a dedicated optometrist to consult on zoom
It is dedicated to both kids and adults
Caterna Vision Therapy is a complementary method to occlusion therapy to overcome the lack of compliance
It is dedicated to amblyopic children from 4 to 12 years
The child can play from home choosing from 9 different videogames with different levels depending on age and skills
The strong eye is patched during use
During the games, the weak eye is exposed to a dynamic sinusoidal black and white pattern that stimulates the neural connection between the amblyopic eye and the visual cortex in the brain
Caterna Vision Therapy is a CE-certified class 1 (EU) medical treatment and should be prescribed by a medical eye care professional
The therapy lasts 12 weeks
It is recommended a control examination after 6 weeks
It is counterindicated to epileptic children
CureSee Vision Therapy is a patented dichoptic therapy through anaglyphs
It offers a wide range of software-based exercises to perform at home, even without clinical prescription
The results of the exercises are monitored on remote to personalize the therapy triggering adaptive learning
It is dedicated to amblyopic patients of all ages
Vivid Vision is a dichoptic therapy system through VR
Different images of different intensity and contrasts are delivered to the two eyes during interactive gamesDifferent images of different intensity and contrasts are delivered to the two eyes during interactive games
A standard treatment is sessions of 2 h/week for 10 weeks leads to results comparable to patching
Available for different VR headsets (Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and DPVR P1 Pro
Requires direct supervision from a licensed eye care professional
It is dedicated to amblyopic patients of all ages
It contains exercises for strabismus and convergence insufficiency
Luminopia is a dichoptic therapy system through VR
VR headset displays TV contents from thousands of free episodes
Same scene is delivered to the two eyes in complementary way (dichoptic masking). The image delivered to the strong eye has reduced contrast
FDA-approved amblyopia treatment for amblyopic children of ages 4-7
Only available by medical prescription
Amblyoplay is a set of engaging visual exercises delivered dichoptically by using two colors and let the patient wear anaglyphes
The views of the two eyes have the same contrast
Anaglyphes and tablet need to be bought
It is recommended 30 min training/ day in two sessions
Exercises are customised
Lazy Eye Training is a set of videogames and vision training exercises delivered dichoptically by using two colors and let the patient wearany kind of anaglyphes
The views of the two eyes have the same contrast
It is not a medical device
It is available a browser plugin that make in the anaglyphes’ colors the web pages
Retal Vision proposes a cloud based treatment based on the idea that improving detection of some stimuli would improve visual perception (perceptual learning)
The used stimuli are gabor patches, since they should better than other stimuli elicit responses on visual cortex
In normal binocular conditions (without any special glasses) patients detect what of two consecutive images contains a target, in what direction a target is shifted or what image is darker
The treatment comprises sessions of 30 minute for 3-4 times a week for 2-4 months
FDA-approved amblyopia treatment for amblyopic children older than 9 years and adults
Cure Sight by Novasight, is a dichoptic therapy system where kids watch any streamed content of choice, while wearing anaglyphs.
An eye-tracker estimates where the strong eye is watching, blurring the part of the image corresponding to the foveal vision
FDA-approved amblyopia treatment for amblyopic children in 4-9 years range
A pivotal study claims it is more effective than patching
Monitoring Center tracks the patient’s compliance to the treatment
It is necessary a hardware, delivered for the time of the treatment
The treatment requires minimum 90 minutes per day, 5 days a week. The duration of the treatment will be instructed by the referring physician – CureSight pivotal study was conducted for 4 months
Eye care provider receives a comprehensive patient progress reports and real-time monitoring of the child’s compliance
