The eyessistant FYP team worked to bring an eye surgery training simulator in Hong Kong to help surgeons train on doing eye surgery simulation practice with VR technology
[paraphrased from the original video produced by eyessistant FYP team]
Problem
The frequency of eye-related diseases have increased significantly due to technology-driven lifestyles. Many come to suffer from dry eye disease, chronic eye illnesses, and even blindness. These illnesses require intricate and high-precision surgeries, yet most medical practitioners don't get enough opportunities to train on it.
Relevant training platforms available in the market today are either too expensive, unportable, or both, making it quite inaccessible. While developing countries have shown to contain the higher number of infected individuals, training opportunities are sparsely available even in developed nations.
Solution
To bridge this gap, we bring to you Eye Assistant. This is an eye surgery training simulator which is VR enabled and comes with a mobile application. It serves as a cheap and more portable alternative to current market alternatives, which can cost up to 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
Eye Assistant can be produced at just 1,600 Hong Kong dollars, weighing less than half a kg. The setup features a hardware kit containing two simulated probes through two-color tracking and a 3D-shaped head model with a secure base housing all the instruments.
To learn more about how it works, you can look at the video here: https://cse.hkust.edu.hk/ug/fyp/posters/gallery/2019-2020/DES4.mp4