An engineering team at Brigham Young University has created a pair of glasses that display animations to potentially teach autistic children how to make eye contact.
The inspiration behind these glasses came to mother Heidi Kershaw during a therapy session in which her child was struggling to do the therapy exercises while watching a cartoon.
The idea is that once the child is engaged in the animation, it will turn a lower opacity and let the glasses wearer’s eyes shine through, thus encouraging the child to learn eye contact.
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