Population eye health education using augmented reality and virtual reality : scalable tools during and beyond COVID-19

• Main Authors: Gunasekeran, Dinesh Visv, Low, Rebecca, Gunasekeran, Ruvendren, Chan, Benedict, Ong, Hong Ya, Raje, Dhananjay, Mi, Dhananjay, Pavesio, Carlos, Nguyen, Quan Dong, Agrawal, Rupesh
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Community Medicine; Ophthalmology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151953
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a massive impact on healthcare systems, with over 12 million infected individuals as of 10 July 2020.¹ This has necessitated operational overhaul in ophthalmology and other clinical specialties in accordance with public health measures such as physical distancing and cancellation of non-urgent clinical services.² The downstream impact of these measures include the disruption of healthcare functions including preventive programmes such as eye screening, which serve a crucial role to detect disease at early stages before the onset of irreversible morbidity such as visual impairment (VI).