Use of a video-game/stripe presentation for amblyopia therapy

A variation of "stripe therapy" for amblyopia is described, using a composite video presentation of a television game with horizontal or vertical moving stripe backgrounds. The initial study has been carried out with two groups of amblyopic subjects, one group exposed to stripe backgrounds while playing the television games, and a small control group playing the games without any striped backgrounds. A wide range of results was obtained over several weekly exposure sessions, from possibly significant improvement to essentially no change in visual acuity. The results obtained from the group exposed to striped backgrounds do not appear to be markedly better than those obtained from the control group.