SEATTLE — A virtual reality headset for pupillometry may be able to screen for and detect relative afferent pupillary defects, according to a poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
Rashed Kashem and colleagues conducted a pupillometry test on 73 participants, 40 with no relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) and 33 with a RAPD, 13 in the right eye and 20 in the left eye. The test utilized Heru software on a Pico N3P Eye virtual reality device (ByteDance).
After pupil sizes were normalized by a dim screen, participants underwent a swinging