What exercises did you use?

 

Good question.
Some more info but not specific exercises:

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RightEye receives FDA warning that its product is a medical device

An FDA inspection claimed that eye-tracking biomarker developer RightEye misbranded and adulterated its medical device.

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Can I get a demo?

 

Thanks for posting this.

 

I find the published studies on this field, particularly fascinating, both as a professional in the optical field and as a shooter. I have seen some videos of this system online. I'm surprised DARPA hasn't snapped it up and integrated it onto an on- body system useable both in real time and as an AAR/training supplement.

 

Looks like someone is in trouble with the Feds.

 

It was a record keeping and marketing semantics issue that has been resolved caused by technology moving faster than the FDA. Because of the accuracy and amount of data the RightEye System can collect, researchers at institutions like Duke University, The Cleveland Clinic, MIT, etc immediately employed it past its cleared FDA status even though the FDA had put it in its Fast Track program. The info we need for accurate Sports Vision analysis is only a minor percentage of the data it produces.

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I find this very interesting. Roughly, how much can a person expect to spend on this? There may be a variety of options but ballpark figure what am I looking at?

 

I recommend Phil Kiner's eye exercise video. It is a lot cheaper.

Randy

Have there been any studies on shooters that demonstrate significant gains in targets broken?

Good questions. Start with eye exercises. Basically, effective eye exercises are those that require you to actually work your eyes in a disciplined and often a repetitive manner. Each eye is controlled by six individual muscles. Like all the other muscles in the body, these benefit from exercise and, because they need to work together, coordinated exercise. Exercises can be very simple and inexpensive such as just putting a magic marker dot on a piece of paper, hold it at arm's length and trying to look through it like it was a peephole for 10 seconds at a time. You may be surprised to find that during these 10 seconds you will actually be able to feel your eyes wandering. Repeat this a few times a day.

There are lots of online eye exercises and also eye exercises that just use animate objects. Like balls and pencils. Online exercise programs can be subscribed to. Google eye exercises and you can get a quick education on different types. However, the benefit of having a vision analysis done beforehand can reveal specific areas that need work and then specific exercises to improve those areas can be employed.

Phil Kiner, has been an advocate of eye exercises for 20 years having undergone a comprehensive vision therapy program before that. He credits that vision therapy program with helping him to be extremely successful in trapshooting. His video is an excellent investment in improving your shooting vision. With a vision analysis one can select the exercises that are most important and can get objective measurements by a follow up analysis.

The cost of a sports vision analysis really depends upon where you have it done, by whom and to what extent. Numerous sports academies that train high-performing amateur and professional athletes offer it along with comprehensive training programs. There are also high level, professional eye care professionals who offer vision therapy and there are regular optometrists and ophthalmologists that utilize the RightEye System as a general screening tool for all of their patients.

An in-office visit to an optometrist for a basic RightEye Dynamic Vision assessment like what we offer is probably around $150. We offer that same test on-site, such as at the recent California State Trap Shoot and the California State Sporting Clays Shoot for $60 with discounts for juniors. We had 100% positive feedback from the shooters at both shoots with several commenting that the $60 is less than the cost of shooting one hundred targets.

Ed Lyons, the shooting vision guru in the UK, has several top-level shooters that testify that sports vision training has been beneficial to their shooting. I think it is important to point out that a shooter's vision, while a major component, is just one of the ingredients in their personal shooting recipe. Like gun fit, gun mount, hold points, stance, POI, lens color, prescriptions, etc., eye functionality is something that should be addressed and if satisfactory so be it, but if deficient a shooter can choose to address it.

 

I recommend Phil Kiner's eye exercise video. It is a lot cheaper.

Randy

 

I agree on Phil’s eye exercise video and at his clinic he hands out a sheet with some other eye exercises.

 

Have there been any studies on shooters that demonstrate significant gains in targets broken?

 

It's an interesting concept. I'm always leery of something that doesn't come right out with the cost. Lot's of advertising but seems rather reticent on the actual price to the consumer.

 

$150 is practically "free" in Trapshooting. Knowing what to work on instead of working on everything will help a lot. I'll will be pursuing this. Thank you for the insight.

 

I'd gotten a lot of benefit from Phil's eye exercises, as well as those advocated by Ed Lyons (and others). Today I finally tracked down a Righteye assessment locally, and had a great conversation with the optometrist who used the readings as a baseline for some other testing. It is more expensive than Phil's video - but on the other hand as someone mentioned above really anything in the few hundred dollar range is a lot less than I spend on other shooting materials.

My mental model for trying Righteye was that I definitely had made progress using the other exercises, but I wasn't quite sure what to focus on next, or how much it was possibly to push progress beyond those. I'm going to give some of the followup, guided vision therapy a try. My sense from the readout/discussion was I had gotten to a pretty decent vision baseline (from a much worse place I'm sure) with the other tools.

I'm hoping that the extra data and some professional vision therapy help will be the equivalent of getting to the point where you can self-diagnose one's misses in trap or sporting clays. In the sense that once you know where the problem is you can apply more directed practice to improve.

Will report back in a couple of months if anyone is curious.

 

RightEye receives FDA warning that its product is a medical device