Wednesday 26 January 2022

ViaOpta Simulator by Novartis

Follow the links below to install ViaOpta Simulator by Novartis for Android or iOS



The following recording of computer screen displays rendered with the Novartis ViaOpta Simulator  illustrates how a web page appears to users with different visual impairments. 
(Novartis launch notice - Jul 14, 2017)


"ViaOpta Simulator is a vision simulator app for Android and iOS devices, designed to help health care professionals educate patients about visual impairment due to the following eye diseases:
  • Wet age-related macular degeneration
  • Dry age-related macular degeneration
  • Myopic choroidal neovascularization
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Diabetic macular edema
  • Central retinal vein occlusion
  • Branch retinal vein occlusion
  • Glaucoma
  • Cataract
  • Vitreomacular traction/macular hole
HCPs can help their patients understand these conditions using live video from the iPad camera and can increase and decrease disease severity using a slider control."