Forget Google glasses – 3D glasses may prove to be the key to helping children with eye problems, researchers have revealed.
The glasses are being developed in Nottingham, UK, to help children with so-called "lazy eye".
Eye specialists in the city have been working with Sony Computer Entertainment on the project, aimed at helping spare children the misery of wearing glasses with eye patches.
The glasses give the background to a game to the child’s good eye and the active content to the bad eye.
Doctors are now beginning a clinical trial backed by the Wellcome Trust.
Alex Foss, an eye specialist at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, said: "The current technique of patching up the good eye isn’t very effective, and children also dislike it, which means they are reluctant to comply, further reducing the levels of success.
"However, in cases that have so far been treated using the I-BiT system, a marked improvement has been seen after only a few half-hour sessions."
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