Eyeglass prescriptions at the push of a button
Plenoptika (f.k.a. Team Eye) is developing an affordable and accurate device, the “QuickSee,” to prescribe eyeglasses at the push of a button. The goal of the QuickSee is to increase accessibility to eye care in low-resource settings.
Name & Contact
Team Eye | plenoptika.com hi@plenoptika.com
Project status
M+Visión project: Jan 2012 – Jun 2014
Exited from M+Visión: Plenoptika start up (www.plenoptika.com)
Sector
Global health. Medical devices. Ophthalmology
Fellows
Nick Durr, Daryl Lim, Eduardo Lage, Shivang Dave
Collaborators
Frank Thorn
New Engalnd college of optometry
Carlos Dorronsoro, Susana Marcos
CSIC VioBio Lab
Aurolab (Madurai, India)
Aravind Eye Care System (Madurai, India)
“Evaluation of a low-cost wavefront aberrometer for measuring refractive errors.” E Lage, FA Vera-Diaz, SR Dave, D Lim, C Dorronsoro, S Marcos, F Thorn, NJ Durr. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting , May 2014
“Visual acuity evaluation with refractions prescribed by a novel low-cost wavefront aberrometer.” E. Lage, E Garcia, S Dave, M Ramirez, L Garcia, NA Alba, D Lim, C Dorronsoro, S Marcos, NJ Durr. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting , May 2015
Disclosures
Method and Apparatus to Perform Aberration Measurements of an Eye with a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Using No Relay Optics (MIT15542JT)
Ophthalmic Hand-Held Device for Fully-Automatic Measurement of the Optical Properties of the Eye (MIT16035)
Open-View Hand-Held Wavefront Refractor (MIT16036J)
Methods to Improve Quality of Data in Wavefront Aberrometry (MIT17050)
Patents
System And Method For Optical Alignment Of An Eye With A Device For Measurement Of Optical Properties Of The Eye (MIT 16035)
United States of America Serial No. 61/842190, Filed July 2, 2013
Apparatus And Method Of Determining An Eye Prescription (16036J and 16035)
United States of America Serial No. 61/972058, Filed March 28, 2014
Patent Cooperation Treaty Serial No. PCT/US2014/045261, Filed July 2, 2014
Apparatus And Method Of Determining An Eye Prescription (MIT 17050)
United States of America Serial No. 61/972191, Filed March 28, 2014
Patent Cooperation Treaty Serial No. PCT/US014/045305, Filed July 2, 2014
Publication Number: WO15/003086
Licensing
Option to Plenoptika, a start-up company founded by M+Visión Fellow alumni
MassChallenge 2012 – finalist; winner (shared) Perkins Assistive Technology Prize
MIT MISTI-India India Innovation Fund grant ($11,000). May 2013
Harvard University President’s Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship 2013 – Runner up
HultPrize@Sloan (regional competition for HultPrize) – 1st place- January 2014
Boston Globe “MIT Team developes devide to imporve eye care for poor,” March 8, 2014
2014 SPIE Startup Challenge – Second place and Audience Choice Award
Indo-US Science and Technology Endowment Fund (IUSSTF) Grant (Healthy Individual category). Awarded to Plenoptika and Aurolab, 2014 (one of 4 awarded from 700 applications)
Media and updates
In June 2014, Team Eye member Nicholas Durr presented at the Biomedical Innovation Conference in Madrid:
In February 2014, PlenOptika/Team Eye won 2nd place in the 2014 SPIE Startup Challenge:
PlenOptika website is live: http://plenoptika.com/
June 2014
Published paper in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
March 08 2014:
Team Eye in the Boston Globe Read the article+
Team Eye launched its startup, PlenOptika, in 2014.
07 Jan 2013:
Team Eye received US$11,000 as travel funds to visit India, where they have started a collaboration with Soura Bhattacharyya, Chief of Medical Technologies at Glocal Healthcare.
Team Eye’s collaboration with Bhattacharyya began four months ago when he visited the research group at RLE Cambridge. Searching for technologies that could impact Glocal’s mission “to create a Healthcare Delivery System that is universally available, acceptable, and affordable,” Bhattacharyya found Team Eye. Glocal hospitals often cater to low-income patients from rural areas, while operating with evidence-based medicine, stringent transparency, and high quality. They currently operate five hospitals in the state of West Bengal in India.
“Our goal is to meet potential stakeholders in India and explore how our device could positively impact eye care in India,” said Daryl Lim, the 2011 Fellow who started Team Eye. “By visiting and forging relationships with various eye care providers, we also hope to learn what will be needed in order to incorporate our technology into their operations.”
2012:
Team Eye was recognized in two international business plan competitions, the 2012 MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and the 2012 Mass Challenge.