Experience Visual Impairment via Optical See-through Smart Glasses

As the population ages, many will acquire visual impairments. To improve design for these users, it is essential to build awareness of their perspective during everyday routines. Although several visual impairment simulation toolkits exist in both academia and as commercial products, analog, and static visual impairment simulation tools do not simulate efects with respect to the user's eye movements. Meanwhile, VR and video see-through-based AR simulation methods are constrained by smaller felds of view when compared with the natural human visual feld and also sufer from vergence-accommodation confict (VAC) which correlates with visual fatigue, headache, and dizziness. This demonstration enables an on-the-go, VAC-free, visually impaired experience by leveraging our optical see-through glasses. The FOV of our glasses is approximately 160 degrees, and participants can experience both losses of central vision and loss of peripheral vision at diferent severities.