{"id":280980,"date":"2026-06-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:36:53","slug":"zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/","title":{"rendered":"ZEISS and Envision Health Technologies partner on VR functional testing for glaucoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glance.eyesoneyecare.com\/stories\/2026-06-24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/\">ZEISS and Envision Health Technologies partner on VR functional testing for glaucoma<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glance.eyesoneyecare.com\/stories\/2026-06-24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/\">https:\/\/glance.eyesoneyecare.com\/stories\/2026-06-24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 15:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"glance.eyesoneyecare.com\">glance.eyesoneyecare.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZEISS Medical Technology and Envision Health Technologies are teaming up to advance glaucoma management through virtual reality (VR)-based visual function testing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>No intro needed on ZEISS \u2026 but give me the rundown on Envision.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Launched in 2022 and based in New York City, New York, the privately-held digital eye health company was founded by current CEO Lama A. Al-Aswad, MD, MPH, a glaucoma surgeon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its purpose:<\/strong> To improve outcomes for vision-threatening diseases via novel diagnostics.<strong>Its focus: <\/strong>Preventing and treating blinding illness through early detection and intervention.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>And how is it doing this?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By developing gamified, personalized testing accessible via a proprietary system designed to \u201ctransform visual function testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specifically: The company\u2019s technology integrates multiple diagnostic tests and therapeutics with artificial intelligence (AI) analytics to deliver a complete picture of visual health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Before we dive deeper into that, what should we know about this partnership?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The companies\u2019 strategic collaboration combines their key areas of strength to promote VR perimetry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ZEISS\u2019s expertise in (perimetry-based) VF testing<\/li>\n<li>Envision\u2019s VR and software-based VF testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No other specific details were shared on this, other than an emphasis that the partnership will focus on maintaining a \u201cscience-first approach to glaucoma care\u201d while helping to \u201cshape the future direction of VR perimetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>And from a big-picture perspective:<\/strong> ZEISS\u2019s leadership in the perimetry space definitely adds credibility to Envision\u2019s own technology.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Noted. Now, let\u2019s take a closer look at that technology.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Envision\u2019s VR technology consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proprietary,<strong> headset-based adaptive perimetry software<\/strong> for optimal patient comfort and portability<\/li>\n<li>Clinically-validated <strong>gamified testing strategy <\/strong>that transforms VF tests into interactive games with an immersive and intuitive experience<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automated adaptive perimetry<\/strong> (AAP) with novel algorithms that both personalize testing and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glance.eyesoneyecare.com\/stories\/2026-06-24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZEISS and Envision Health Technologies partner on VR functional testing for glaucoma https:\/\/glance.eyesoneyecare.com\/stories\/2026-06-24\/zeiss-and-envision-health-technologies-partner-on-vr-functional-testing-for-glaucoma\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/51cpf7jm\/production\/784eb6d91d98f817606ac9326d1e0bb836d403eb-1201x629.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,119,85],"class_list":["post-280980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280982,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280980\/revisions\/280982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}