CHAT Virtual Reality for Visual Impairments: A Study of Object Perception 10/27/25 Maria Rivera to Everyone: Hello from New Mexico Michael Roberts to Everyone: Grand Prairie, TX Elizabeth Brown to Everyone: Good afternoon! Deana Gipson to Everyone: Kyle, Hays CISD Linda Brown Henning to Everyone: New Caney texas Gretchen Douglas to Everyone: Dripping Springs, Tx Allison Hintz to Everyone: Vancouver, WA Michelle Stokes to Everyone: FWISD Katherine Duford to Everyone: Hi! Upstate NY Julie Kochevar to Everyone: Minnesota Robin Dinerstein to Everyone: Long Island NY Teresa Candelaria to Everyone: El Paso, TX Callie Kukla to Everyone: South Dakota! Tyler Hamilton to Everyone: Garland TX Jessica to Everyone: Redmond, WA Abby Peach to Everyone: Virginia Tressie Schindler to Everyone: Tressie Schindler Houston Michelle Urias to Everyone: Midland, Tx Sandra Markley to Everyone: Hi from Pittsburgh, PA! Krystle Kisosondi to Everyone: Tyler, TX Nolan Markle to Everyone: Columbus Ohio Suzette Moser to Everyone: Thank you! Katherine Duford to Everyone: Is the acuity with or without glasses? Are you using the prescription lenses that fit into the Vr sets? I have a couple of students who insist on gaming on VR sets with their glasses on underneath and it destroys their glasses and noses- I wish there was grant money to get them the prescription vr lenses! Katherine Duford to Everyone: IÕve seen some videos of VR being used to show how someoneÕs eyes track across a reading passage- this seems like it would be an awesome assessment tool for some students. Do you have any experience with that or do you forsee VR sets being in our FVA kits someday? Gina Dills to Everyone: do you need specific special software in order to present things in VR? Sandra Markley to Everyone: What is the cost for VR? Katherine Duford to Everyone: did you create the software for this testing or did the company you mentioned make it? Melanie Stetzer to Everyone: I have a question. Did any of the participants have ocular albinism? I am currently working with a student who has ocular albinism using an Apple Vision Pro. We are running into an issue with the student's prescription due to their astigmatism. Getting the specific lenses that will work for the student are out of the scope for the company that makes them. We are working with Apple directly to try and find a solution. Melanie Stetzer to Everyone: I hear you! Kathy Jakul to Everyone: Curious how this works for color blindness? Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: What's the difference between augmented and virtual reality? Kathy Jakul to Everyone: I have student with unique color challenges. One issue is that blue on white is not visible plus limited color vision. Lee Wright to Everyone: Your patient 2 is color blind... his brother is more so... and uses VR a bunch Katherine Duford to Everyone: It would be so interesting to use this with students that have level 1 CVI, it would be like a perfectly adapted environment and to be able to view their eye gaze! Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Would this be something someone would use in a classroom in real time? Like during a lesson? Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Would the teacher have to load classroom materials ahead of time? Lee Wright to Everyone: Katherine, have you looked at CVI connect? Charlene Troy to Everyone: This seems so promising for my O&M students to prep them for intersection crossings! Katherine Duford to Everyone: Yes I use it! ThatÕs what got me thinking about it how awesome it would be to combine the two! Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: This is so interesting! So many possibilities! Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: floreovr.com Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: Is there anything in augmentative reality that has a camera and pulls the environment into that super close screen? Thinking like scanning the real shelves at grocery and it appearing like the VR one does? Katherine Duford to Everyone: Does it make a difference far sighted vs near sighted? Lee Wright to Everyone: VR has cameras on it... Kaycee Bennett to Everyone: It does, thank you!