Abstract
2.2 billion people worldwide live with vision impairment and blindness. However, half of these cases could have been prevented with timely diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions. The cost and accessibility of specialized care limit eye health. Therefore, there is an initiative to develop new technologies to facilitate screening and evaluations of eye conditions for telemedicine and primary healthcare. Standard devices are expensive, limited to a hospital environment, and require trained operators. In addition, multiple devices are needed to complete a general eye examination because different tests are involved. Consequently, developing a single device to conduct multiple eye exams will increase the screening of eye conditions. Extended reality head-mounted headsets present a potential solution. Nowadays, several tests for visual function are carried out using these devices. However, this technology was not designed to allow a physical eye evaluation, which is one of the main components of a comprehensive eye exam. Therefore, this project presents the development of an imaging system prototype to allow the examination of anterior eye segment structures from a head-mounted display. The prototype shown is portable and remotely controlled to facilitate operation. The studies demonstrated that no experience is required to operate the new prototype, and the sensitivity and specificity of the images acquired with this system are similar to the standard slit lamp biomicroscope.