THE NASA CONNECTION

NASA SPINOFF 1990, 1993, AND 2015

As a spinoff of NASA research, the Accommotrac® Vision Trainer was the lead article in the Health and Medicine Section of the1990 NASA Spinoff Magazine. Again in 1993, the instrument was featured in the best of Spinoff, and now in 2015.


Biofeedback for Better Vision
Sensory Learning Center International

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Vision Trainer Teaches Focusing Techniques at Home
Spinoff 2015
When NASA's Ames Research Center contracted Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s to develop a means of objectively measuring pilots' ability to adapt their vision to different distances, known as visual accommodation, the agency was not considering a biofeedback device that could teach users to control their eye focus-much less a system that could improve sensory and motor processes, as well as attention, creativity, and learning, by inducing an "alpha brain-wave state."

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