What you need to Know about the IrisVision

The main control is a touchpad on the headset. Using the index finger to make swiping gestures in and out on the touchpad, the magnification level is easily controlled and can be adjusted by the user for each task they want to see. These swipes only take several minutes to learn but are an important skill that will take practice. Each task you wish to view may need a certain level of magnification and these adjustments take practice over several days and weeks.

To practice with the IrisVision means that as you start to use it for many different tasks like reading, watching TV, seeing the buttons on the microwave or numbers on the thermostat. At first, users lose their place as they magnify, this is normal. Learning to aim gets better and better over time. For instance, looking up to see a clock on the wall could start out being easy to see at low magnification. To zoom in and magnify the detail, often a person might lose their place for the first several attempts. The skill of finding things at higher levels of magnification gets better and better over time. Also, the skill of zooming out to lower magnification and then quickly zooming back in will get much better over several days and weeks. Almost all IrisVision wearers become excellent at doing this over a relatively short time if they are willing to practice. With IrisVision offering a 30 day, no risk trial, potential users can take advantage of learning to use IrisVision in their own home or work place day after day. This also gives an opportunity to see how it works in your own environment, on your own TV set or taking it places to see how it helps in many situations like at a museum, concert or play or outside in your garden. Many also use it for sporting events or watching children or grandchildren play sports.

For reading, we include some practice text and let people know it also will take practice to read small print. Reading magnified text has some of the same problems at first where persons can skip a line from time to time or end up reading the same line twice. Our exercise booklet starts with larger print with more space in between lines and then gets smaller and single spaced as the pages progress to standard text. It is important to read for a twenty minute period several times a day using these types of exercises. It is also best to not skip a day. Most everyone can note their own progress over days and weeks with regular effort.