Virtual eye exams are modernizing eye care

Getting an eye exam can sometimes be an uncomfortable experience. The doctor shines bright lights directly into your cornea and blows air into your eyes. You move from machine to machine, placing your chin in a strap where hundreds of chins have been before. And widening the eyes is never pleasant.

Heru is trying to change all that.

This new software company offers virtual reality and augmented reality eye exams using Magic Leap headsets. The eye exams were developed at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami by eye doctors, including Heru’s founder and CEO, Dr. Mohammed Abu Shusha.

Heru’s VP of Innovation, Keith Brock, visited the CNET offices to give us a demo of the Heru platform. CNET Senior Producer Stephen Beachum tried out the eye exams and was screened for glaucoma, color blindness and other eye conditions.